[Crib-list] SPEAKER: Julian Kates-Harbeck (Harvard) | CRIBB Seminar | Friday, Feb. 3, 2017 | 12:00 PM | Room 32-124 -- STATA

[Shirley Entzminger]

 		    COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND Seminar


DATE:		Friday, February 3, 2017

TIME:		12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM

LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124 | Stata Building

  		[32 Vassar Street, Cambridge]

   * Pizza and beverages will be provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-124 *



TITLE:		Nonlinear epidemics on graphs.


SPEAKER:	Julian Kates-Harbeck  (Harvard University)


ABTRACT:

Most epidemiological models assume independent transmission events, where the 
transmission probability between individuals is linear in the intensity/number 
of exposures. However, for social epidemics (such as behaviors, ideas, internet 
memes, opinions or other "virally" spreading social phenomena) it is not 
unreasonable to assume that there is a strong nonlinearity in the probability 
of an individual becoming infected as a function of the number of infected 
contacts. We study the behavior of such nonlinear epidemics on well-mixed 
populations as well as more realistic graphs. We provide analytical results 
which are compared to numerical simulations.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


For information about the Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar, 
please visit...

                         http://math.mit.edu/crib/




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Shirley A. Entzminger
Administrative Assistant II
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 2, Room 350A
Cambridge, MA 02139
PHONE:  (617) 253-4347
FAX:    (617) 253-4358
E-mail: daisymae at math.mit.edu
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