Is local information enough to predict an epidemic?

Is local information enough to predict an epidemic?

Probability Seminar
Mar 10, 2021, 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Zoom (https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95668607041) | Happening As Scheduled
Christian Borgs, UC Berkeley

While simpler models of epidemics assume homogeneous mixing, it is clear that the structure of our social networks is important for the spread of an infection, with degree inhomogeneities and the related notion of super-spreaders being just the obvious reason. This raises the question of whether knowledge of the local structure of a network is enough to predict the probability and size of an...