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PhD position in the area of Applied PDEs to be filled at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Start date 1st Sept 2024.
Tentative title: "Opinion consensus reached through uninformed individuals: A Boltzmann-type description"
Abstract of the project: The influence of leaders to control public opinion is a concept that has been largely studied. However, it has been argued that the presence of uninformed or naive individuals destabilises the capacity for collective intelligence in groups and dilutes the role of the leaders. The main goal of the project is to study the effect of uninformed individuals in the opinion formation process in follower-leader opinion dynamics. The system is going to have three different populations: leaders, followers and uninformed individuals. Defining the pairwise interactions between the different populations is the bottleneck and a central point in the derivation of a continuous mean field limit model. Other questions such as what is the critical size of the uninformed population to restore control to the numerical majority, or what is the maximum density of uninformed individuals that allows consensus, will also be addressed.
This project is co-supervised with Marie-Therese Wolfram, from Warwick University, U.K.
If you are interested in applying please email me at gissell.estrada@upc.edu.
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