Epidemics, Erdos numbers, and the Internet
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Epidemics, Erdos numbers, and the Internet: The structure and function of complex networks
- Hosted by Dr. Caterina Scoglio, EECE Department Kansas State University.
- Lecture by Dr. Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems , University of Michigan.
- September 4, 2008 at Kansas State University.
Abstract
There are networks in almost every part of our lives. Some of them are familiar and obvious: the Internet, the power grid, the road network. Others are less obvious but just as important: the patterns of friendships or acquaintances between people form a social network; the species in an ecosystem join together to form a food web; the workings of the body's cells are dictated by a metabolic network of chemical reactions. As large-scale data on these networks and others have become available in the last few years, a new science of networks has grown up, drawing on ideas from math, engineering, biology, physics and other fields to shed light on systems ranging from bacteria to the whole of human society. This lecture will look at some new discoveries regardingnetworks, how these discoveries were made, and what they can tell us about the way the world works.
- Slides from lecture:
Newman.pdf 
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