Each summer, IMD faculty run research projects through Wellesley’s Science Center Summer Research Program, an eight-week program for Wellesley STEM students emulating the well-established REU model. Anywhere from three to seven students work on open questions at the cutting edge of math and democracy research. Some of the recent projects involved abstract algebra in social choice theory, category-theoretic approach to game theory, and applications of topological data analysis to voting. If you are interested in doing summer research with IMD, please be on the lookout for emails about the program from the Science Center or write to us at contact@math-democracy.org.
If you are not a Wellesley student but are interested in this program, please write to us as we are currently working on expanding it to students from other institutions.
See below for more information about the Undegraduate Summer Research Program from past years.
Summer 2024 Undergraduate Research at IMD
This summer, two Wellesley College students will use topological data analysis of Pew political typology…
Summer 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research at IMD
Undergraduate summer research at IMD is in full swing, with several Wellesley College students continuing…
IMD 2021 Student Summer Research Virtual Event – Videos and Presentations
On November 4, 2021, IMD held a virtual event "Summer Research in Math and Politics.…
IMD Student Publishes Paper in Mathematical Social Sciences
Congratulations to IMD student Andrea Mock! Her paper Political structures and the topology of simplicial complexes…
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…
