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This lecture is an online discussion organised under our new Scaling in Complex Systems lecture series. Under this new series, we shall hear from researchers investigating mechanisms of scaling, such as self-organized criticality, preferential processes, multiplicative processes and sample space reducing processes.

For the foreseeable future, lectures will remain predominantly online. 

Speaker Overview

Shlomo Havlin is a Professor of Physics at the Bar-Ilan ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, Israel. He has brought fundamental contributions to statistical physics and contributed to multidisciplinary fields such as complex networks, climate, medicine, biology, geophysics, and computer science. Havlin has published over 750 scientific papers and is a member of many international Scientific Societies. He has been awarded many prizes for his extensive research through the years including the Israel Prize in Physics and Chemistry (2018) and The Order of the Star of Italy by the President (2017).

Abstract

Professor Shlomo Havlin will discuss recent research on several spreading phenomena that occur on social, natural, and infrastructure networks.  Special attention will be given to scaling laws in such phenomena. Specific examples that will be discussed include, spreading and efficient immunization of pandemics (such as the current Covid-19), spreading of fake and real news, spreading of traffic jams, and spreading and mitigation of cascading failures in infrastructure systems. 

Meeting Details

There will be 45-min lecture from the speaker, followed by a 45-min Question & Answer session.

To attend the lecture, please click this  at 15:00 on Thursday 21st January 2021.

The event will be held via Zoom.