EpiFor @ Edinburgh International Science Festival
feature in Physics World
The Flu Fighters
V Colizza & A Vespignani
new paper in PNAS
new paper in EHT Journal on vaccines and H1N1 fall pandemic wave
Modeling vaccination campaigns and the Fall/Winter 2009 activity of the new A(H1N1) influenza in the Northern Hemisphere
Bajardi P et al,
EHT Journal 2:e11 (2009)
column on Airneth
People interact. They travel. And diseases might travel with them.

new paper in BMC Medicine predicting H1N1 spread
Seasonal
transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1):
a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility
Balcan D et al,
BMC Med 7:45 (2009)
projections for H1N1 flu spread

NetSci2009
new paper in PNAS
WiFi networks and malware epidemiology
H. Hu. S. Myers, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 106, 1318-1323 (2009)
watch the videos!
Financial Times - Forscher simulieren WLan-Wurmepidemie (german) (Feb 4, 2009)
New Scientist - City WiFi networks vulnerable to virus attack(Jan 28, 2009)
Scientific American Podcast - Wireless networks are soft virus targets(Jan 29, 2009)
MIT Technology Review - Modeling malware over WiFi(Jan 28, 2009)
Red Orbit - Researchers expose WiFi network weaknesses (Jan 28, 2009)
BBC News - Alarm sounded over WiFi networks (Jan 27, 2009)
Radio 3 Scienza - interview (italian) (Jan 27, 2009)
La Vanguardia - Las redes wifi favorecen la difusion de virus informaticos (spanish) (Jan 27, 2009)
Galileo - Virus, WiFi a rischio (italian) (Jan 27, 2009)
eccellenze al femminile

Jan 17, 2009, 9.30am, Turin, Italy.
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new research on human dynamics
High resolution dynamical mapping of social interactions with active RFID
A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, V. Colizza, J.-F. Pinton, W. Van den Broeck, A. Vespignani
arXiv:0811.4170

influweb goes on TV
Influweb team appeared on the italian scientific TV news, TG Leonardo. Watch the video! (italian)
influweb: launch
On November 1, 2008 we launched the first season of influweb, an innovative surveillance system for influenza-like illness (ILI) in Italy, based on the cooperative participation of the population.
Do you live in Italy? check out www.influweb.it and participate to the project!
new article in PRL
Prominence and Control: The Weighted Rich-Club Effect
T. Opsahl, V. Colizza, P. Panzarasa, J.J. Ramasco
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 168702 (2008)

NAKFI 2008 tutorial
My tutorial on
"Spreading Processes and Complexity" for the National Academies Keck
Futures Initiative 2008 - Complex Systems is webcasted at 1pm ET. The
webcast is available here.

new article in JTB
Epidemic modeling in metapopulation systems with heterogeneous coupling pattern: Theory and simulations
V. Colizza, A. Vespignani
J. Theor. Biol. 251, 450-467 (2008)
Tutte le trame del mondo

by G. Caldarelli & V. Colizza
Sapere, Feb 2008
forecast map @ Places & Spaces exhibition

Impact of Air Travel on Global Spread of Infectious Diseases
Check out theschedule of physical showings.
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