COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND (CRIBB)

Date February 3, 2017
Speaker Julian Kates-Harbeck Harvard University
Topic Nonlinear Epidemics on Graphs
Abstract 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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We thank the generous support of MIT IS&T, CSAIL, and the Department of Mathematics for their support of this series.

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