Modeling Projects

Project 1 - Collective Dynamics on Networks

Article: Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks by Duncan J. Watts & Steven H. Strogatz. Nature 393, 440-442 (1998)
Context Article: The Structure and Function of Complex Networks by M. E. J. Newman. SIAM Review 45, 167-256 (2003)
Mentor: Angelica Gonzalez

Article: The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios at the global scale by Wouter Van den Broeck, Corrado Gioannini, Bruno Gonçalves, Marco Quaggiotto, Vittoria Colizza, and Alessandro Vespignani. BMC Infectious Diseases 11, 37 (2011)
Context Article: 1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics by J. K. Taubenberger & D. M. Morens. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12, 15-22 (2006)
Context Article: Cost–effectiveness analysis of pandemic influenza preparedness: what’s missing? by Tom L Drake, Zaid Chalabi & Richard Coker. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 90, 940-941 (2012)
Software: GLEAMviz
Data: estimated air traffic data may be obtained from the VBD-AIR Project
Mentor: Rachel Neville

Article: Agent-based simulation of Muscovy duck movements using observed habitat transition and distance frequencies by James H. Anderson, Joni A. Downs, Rebecca Loraamm, Steven Reader. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 61, 49–55 (2017)
OR Article: Anticipation effect in pedestrian dynamics: Modeling and experiments by Yushi Suma, Daichi Yanagisawa, Katsuhiro Nishinari. Physica A 391 248–263 (2012)
Context Article: Agent-Based Modeling by D. Helbing. In: Helbing D. (eds) Social Self-Organization. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)
Software: NetLogo
Mentor: Hannah Biegel

Article: Cascading Failures as Continuous Phase-Space Transitions by Yang Yang and Adilson E. Motter. Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 248302 (2017)
Context Article: Cascading Failures: Extreme Properties of Large Blackouts in the Electric Grid by Paul D.H. Hines, Benjamin O’Hara, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, and Christopher M. Danforth (2011)
Mentor: Lidia Mrad

Article: The travel and environmental implications of shared autonomous vehicles, using agent-based model scenarios by Daniel J.Fagnant, Kara M.Kockelman. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 40, 1-13 (2014)
Context Article: Are we going too fast on driverless cars? by Jeffrey Mervis (2017)
Mentor: Ngoc Do, Philip Strzelecki

Article: Reactive Glass and Vegetation Patterns by N. M. Shnerb, P. Sarah, H. Lavee, and S. Solomon. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 038101 (2003)
Contextual information: The Mystery of Vegetation Patterns from the Mathematics of Planet Earth website.
Mentor: Cheng Ding

Article: Demographic Variability, Vaccination, and the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Rotavirus Epidemics by Virginia E. Pitzer, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Claudia Steiner, Catherine A. Panozzo, Wladimir J. Alonso, Mark A. Miller, Roger I. Glass, John W. Glasser, Umesh D. Parashar, Bryan T. Grenfell. Science 325, 290-294 (2009)
OR Article: Seasonal dynamics of recurrent epidemics by Lewi Stone, Ronen Olinky & Amit Huppert. Nature 446, 533-536 (2007)
Context Article: Modelling an outbreak of an emerging pathogen by Emily Kajita, Justin T. Okano, Erin N. Bodine, Scott P. Layne & Sally Blower. Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 700–709 (2007)
Contextual information: CDC site on rotavirus
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Article: Coexistence versus extinction in the stochastic cyclic Lotka-Volterra model by Tobias Reichenbach, Mauro Mobilia, and Erwin Frey. Phys. Rev. E 74, 051907 (2006)
Contextual information: The spatial scales of species coexistence by Simon P. Hart, Jacob Usinowicz & Jonathan M. Levine. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 1066–1073 (2017)
Mentor: Nick Henscheid

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