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