Student Talk Series: Erik Bollt, Clarkson University, December 4th, Olin 268 @ noon

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Title:  Diseases, Fame and Merit – Various Outbreaks on Social Networks

 

Abstract: Dynamical Systems, Chaos theory and Complex Systems theory has some useful mathematical tools to bring to bear on problems that are very familiar to our own lives.  Furthermore, social media has some really relevant large scaled data that also lends toward a modern discussion of what happens when people socially contact.