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SUMMARY:Uncovering the Secrets of Rumor Spreading - Emilian-Dragu Bacila\,
  St Catharine's College
DTSTART:20150114T190000Z
DTEND:20150114T194000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Our society acquires new information every day. This informati
 on propagates from entity to entity in a rumor-like manner. This talk will
  present how rumor spreading can be modeled in a mathematical way.\n\nTwo 
 different approaches will be presented: A probabilistic approach\, which f
 lows naturally from the way people interact and a deterministic approach\,
  which is more easy to implement and test in software.\n\nThe two models w
 ill be accompanied by algorithms which are used to simulate them and the p
 ros and cons of each model will be pointed out.\nThe talk will conclude wi
 th how rumor spreading can be applied in various fields.
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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