Opportunities for research in mathematics and democracy abound. Students and scholars who are affiliated with the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy are engaged in a number of projects ranging from applications of abstract mathematical methods in voting theory to the history of political quantitative literacy in education.
If you are a student or a researcher who wants to join our team or are looking for project ideas for yourself or your students, please contact us. We have ongoing or planned projects in
- Advanced mathematical methods in voting theory
- Apportionment and power structure analysis
- Geometry of gerrymandering
- New methods in social choice theory
- Mathematics of social media and voter manipulation
- Mathematics of social modeling algorithms
- Analysis of election, census, and other data sets
- Education and political quantitative literacy
IMD Student Publishes Paper in Mathematical Social Sciences
Congratulations to IMD student Andrea Mock! Her paper Political structures and the topology of simplicial complexes…
Introducing the 2021-2022 IMD Fellows
We are happy to announce that Wellesley students Anastasia Brooks '23, Delaney Morgan '22, Hayley…
IMD Students Present Their 2021 Summer Research
Join us for our fall event Summer Research in Math and Politics taking place on November…
Bruce Boghosian, IMD Affiliate & Mathematics Professor at Tufts University, Spent the Summer Teaching Math and Politics
Bruce Boghosian is an IMD affiliate and mathematics professor at Tufts University. He spent his summer teaching…
2021 Summer Research Presentations at IMD
Summer research at IMD has come to a close. To mark the end of the…
Undergraduate Research at IMD Returns in Summer 2021
IMD’s second annual summer research program is underway, in collaboration with Wellesley College’s Science Center…
