DIMACS/DyDAn REU at Rutgers University
Summer 2007
Network Model of the Spread of Infectious Disease in a Prison
Anne Eaton
Advisor: Professor Nina Fefferman
My partner, Johanna Tam, is modelling the same population using a more traditional SIR compartamental model.
Network modelling is a fairly new type of epidemic modelling where we explicitely take into account the contact patterns between individuals.
If you want to learn more about network modelling, I really recommend this webcast by Lauren Ancel Meyers. It is an hour and a half long and you will need to download the viewer, Envivo, but it's a great introduction to the topic.
For those of you with more math background, here are two good papers to get you started:
Spread of epidemic disease on networks by M. E. J. Newman
Netwrok theory and SARS: Predicting outbreak diversity by
Lauren Ancel Meyers, Babak Pourbohloul, M.E.J. Newman, Danuta M. Skowronski, and Robert C. Brunham
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Anne Eaton
Grinnell College Class of 2008
Mathematics