Financial, Ecological and Disease-Transmitting Networks and their Dynamics

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• Professor Lord Robert M May, OM AC FRS, University of Oxford
• Wednesday 03 March 2010, 17:30-18:30
• G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building.

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The transmission of infection among humans or other animals, the spread of viruses or worms among computers, transfers of funds within financial markets, and the way ecosystems respond to disturbance are four among many examples of nonlinear dynamical systems whose behaviour depends upon the nature of the network of connections among nodes (that is individuals, computers, banks/traders, species, respectively). Recent concern about HIV /AIDS, SARS , and foot and mouth disease among livestock have prompted advances in our understanding of the interplay between network patterns and effective control measures. Separate, but ultimately related, work deals with older questions about ecosystem resilience, and newer questions about the overall stability of financial markets (as distinct from individual funds). My talk aims to be a brief but opinionated overview of all this.

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