Join us Monday March 16 for the observation of π-day, a celebration of the mathematics we learn, apply, and develop at ITU. The event will consist of a talk by assistant professor Jonas Juul followed by pie and coffee.

Join us Monday March 16 for the observation of π-day, a celebration of the mathematics we learn, apply, and develop at ITU. The event will consist of a talk by assistant professor Jonas Juul followed by pie and coffee.

Programme:

15:15: Introduction and talk "Fighting online and offline contagion with mathematics" by Jonas Juul in Aud 0

16:15: Coffee and pie in the atrium.

We ask participants to please register before March 12 at noon in order to get an estimate of the amount of pie needed. Registration is here:
https://forms.gle/Wdwif1pK9gTUAfDC7

Speaker: Jonas Juul

Title: Fighting online and offline contagion with mathematics

Abstract: Many important challenges of our time are related to harmful contagion in networks. To mitigate such harmful contagion – be it misinformation, an epidemic, or something else – it is important to understand key details about it: how the contagion spreads in the population, and how infectious it is. In recent years, studying the structure of cascades – rooted, directed, acyclic graphs indicating who infected whom in the network – has provided a new way of getting insights about the spreading mechanism and contagion impact. In this talk, I will tell the story of how new mathematical results first extinguished and now are reviving the hope that cascade structures can reveal what is spreading, while it is spreading.

The event is organised by Rasmus Møgelberg.