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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 19: Networks: From Topology to Dynamics II (with BP, SOE)

DY 19.3: Talk

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 11:15–11:30, GÖR 226

Optimal vaccination strategies in metapopulation networks — •Vitaly Belik — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA — Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen, Germany

Human infectious diseases remain a profound challenge for the humankind. Recently a lot of attention is devoted to theoretical modeling of geographical epidemic spread taking into account human mobility patterns obtained from the ubiquitous real data. This considerably advances the design of effective preventive and containment strategies. We investigate a problem of optimal vaccine distribution in a metapopulation network employing game theoretical approaches. We answer such an important question, as to what extent different regions are interdependent and where vaccination need to be subsidized to minimize the overall impact of the epidemic. In our extensive numerical simulation we employ the real data on human mobility in the USA.