Name: Ismar Volić: MAKING DEMOCRACY COUNT (with John Watt)
Start: 2025-04-16T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-16T18:00:00-04:00
Location: The Ivy Bookshop - Back Patio

$Ismar Voli\u0107: MAKING DEMOCRACY COUNT (with John Watt)$

The Ivy is excited to host mathematician Ismar Volić for a conversation about the enduring relationship between mathematics and democracy!
About this Event

The Ivy is excited to host mathematician Ismar Volić for a conversation about the enduring relationship between mathematics and democracy, via his new book Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation! John Watt, who has taught mathematics at the Friends School of Baltimore for more than 35 years, will facilitate this conversation. This is a book oriented around repair, proposing a road map for repairing the mathematical structures that undergird representative government. Those interested in math, democracy, and government-- at any level and in any combination-- are welcome!

Ismar Volić is a Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College. He received a B.A. from Boston University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Brown University. His research is in algebraic topology. He is the author of many articles and three books and has delivered more than two hundred lectures in some twenty countries. He was a visiting professor at MIT and the University of Virginia. His writing has appeared in publications such as The Hill, TIME, and LitHub.

John Watt has taught middle school mathematics at the Friends School of Baltimore since 1989.