Speaker
Petter Holme
(Umeå University)
Description
Contacts between individuals form the infrastructure over which
diseases spread. Such contact patterns are far from
randomÑthere are
correlations both in the network of who has been in contact
with whom,
and when these contacts happen. These structures affect the
dynamics
of disease spreading but can also be exploited in preventive
action
such as vaccination campaigns. In this talk, I will use
datasets from
the proximity of patients in hospitals, online dating
services and
Internet-mediated prostitution to discuss some methods to
analyze such
temporal network structures and evaluate their effects on
disease
spreading. I will also discuss targeted immunization protocols
utilizing such structures.
