Epidemics on Networks

Speaker: Piet Van Mieghem, professor at the Delft University of Technology with a chair in telecommunication networks and chairman of the section Network Architectures and Services (NAS)

Abstract: The talk is divided into two parts. First, I will briefly summarize the essential theory of epidemics on fixed contact graphs. In the second part, I will talk about aspects of the theory, that in my opinion, may deserve more attention in the future. Most models of epidemics implicitly assume a Markovian way of thinking and omit the difficult dependence on the past. Although little is known about a more realistic modeling, we will sketch (a) some non-Markovian aspects and (b) illustrates that the prevalence, i.e. the average fractions of infected nodes, in time-varying networks can mimic the reported Covid-19 prevalence over long time intervals.

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