Speaker: 

Daniel Valesin

Institution: 

University of British Columbia

Time: 

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 10:00am to 11:00am

Host: 

Location: 

RH 340P

We consider the contact process on a random graph chosen with a fixed degree, power law distribution, according to a model proposed by Newman, Strogatz and Watts (2001). We follow the work of Chatterjee and Durrett (2009) who showed that for arbitrarily small infection parameter λ