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Dynamics of contact epidemic models for finite populations
Ph. Blanchard, S. Nicolis
We study contact epidemic models for the spread of infective diseases in finite populations. The size dependence enters in the infection rate. The dynamics of such models is then a…
Perspectives on Multi-Level Dynamics
Fatihcan M. Atay, Sven Banisch, Philippe Blanchard +2
As Physics did in previous centuries, there is currently a common dream of extracting generic laws of nature in economics, sociology, neuroscience, by focalising the description of…
A "Garden of Forking Paths" - the Quantum Mechanics of Histories of Events
Philippe Blanchard, Juerg Froehlich, Baptiste Schubnel
We present a short survey of a novel approach, called "ETH approach", to the quantum theory of events happening in isolated physical systems and to the effective time evolution of…
Urban Landscape is an Important Factor in Rising Inequality, Spatial Segregation, and Social Isolation
Philippe Blanchard, Dimitri Volchenkov
Urbanization has been the dominant demographic trend in the entire world, during the last half century. Rural to urban migration, international migration, and the re-classification…
Heavy-tailed Distributions In Stochastic Dynamical Models
Ph. Blanchard, T. Krueger, D. Volchenkov
Heavy-tailed distributions are found throughout many naturally occurring phenomena. We have reviewed the models of stochastic dynamics that lead to heavy-tailed distributions (and…
Passive Supporters of Terrorism and Phase Transitions
Friedrich August, Philippe Blanchard, Sascha Delitzscher +2
We discuss some social contagion processes to describe the formation and spread of radical opinions. The dynamics of opinion spread involves local threshold processes as well as me…