Webinar by Alex Arenas
Barcelona Webinar 02/07/2020
Date: 2 July, 16h (CET, GMT+2, Barcelona/Madrid/Paris/Berlin)
Speaker: Alex Arenas, DEIM, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Title: “Epidemics and mobility”
Link to the webinar: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/8c04df402c3e4422a66fd1133249678b
Abstract:
Reaction–diffusion processes have been widely used to study epidemics in networked metapopulations. In the context of epidemics, reaction processes are understood as contagions within each subpopulation (patch), while diffusion represents the mobility of individuals between patches. Recently, the characteristics of human mobility, such as its recurrent nature, have been proven crucial to understand the phase transition to endemic epidemic states. Here, we present a framework able to cope with the elementary epidemic processes, the spatial distribution of populations and the commuting mobility patterns. We will show after, how this framework has been adapted to describe the COVID-19 pandemic.
