Probability Seminar
Thursday, November 3, 2022, 3:15pm, Zoom link
Michela Meister (Cornell)
Containing the spread of a contagion on a tree
Abstract:- Contact tracing can be thought of as a race between two processes: an infection process and a tracing process. In this paper, we study a simple model of infection spreading on a tree, and a tracer who stabilizes one node at a time. We focus on the question, how should the tracer choose nodes to stabilize so as to prevent the infection from spreading further? We study simple policies, which prioritize nodes based on time, infectiousness, or probability of generating new contacts. This talk is based on joint work with Jon Kleinberg.
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