Wednesday, 12 February 2025 Famnits' Excursion into the mathematical universe: Rumors, epidemics and economic crises: infection processes in networks

You are invited to the 4th lecture in the series titled

“Rumors, epidemics and economic crises: infection processes in networks,”

which will take place on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 16:00, in Lecture Hall 3, UP FAMNIT, and via ZOOM.

The lecture will be presented by Dr. Miklós Krész UP FAMNIT, UP IAM, and InnoRenew CoE.

What are the commonalities between the economic crisis of 2008, the COVID-19 pandemic, and social media campaigns in recent political elections? Why were the dynamics of bankruptcies, epidemic outbreaks, and the spread of misinformation so unexpected? What are the similarities and differences between these processes and how can mathematical models describe them? What specific problems arise in controlling the spread of these types of outbreaks and what mathematical methods can be used to address them? In this lecture, we will take a journey through the methodology of computational network analysis to answer the above questions and to highlight the main challenges.

Miklós Krész received his PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Szeged, Hungary, in 2005. His main research interests include industrially motivated optimization methods, data driven industrial solutions and the integration of operations research and data science methodologies. He focuses on both fundamental and applied research in these areas. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Science at UP FAMNIT and UP IAM, and he is the Head of the Information Processing Research Department at the InnoRenew CoE interdisciplinary research center.