4 papers
When minor issues matter: symmetries, pluralism, and polarization in similarity-based opinion dynamics
Brian Mintz, Daniel Simonson, Dominik Wodarz +2
Understanding how opinions evolve through social interactions is crucial for mitigating polarization. Existing opinion-dynamics models incorporate both attractive and repulsive int…
Causal Graph ODE: Continuous Treatment Effect Modeling in Multi-agent Dynamical Systems
Zijie Huang, Jeehyun Hwang, Junkai Zhang +6
Real-world multi-agent systems are often dynamic and continuous, where the agents co-evolve and undergo changes in their trajectories and interactions over time. For example, the C…
Calculating effective gun policies
Dominik Wodarz, Natalia L. Komarova
Following recent shootings in the USA, a debate has erupted, one side favoring stricter gun control, the other promoting protection through more weapons. We provide a scientific fo…
Evolutionary Dynamics of Giant Viruses and their Virophages
Dominik Wodarz
Giant viruses contain large genomes, encode many proteins atypical for viruses, replicate in large viral factories, and tend to infect protists. The giant virus replication factori…