A branching process with contact tracing
Speaker: Martin Barlow
Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2020
Location: Zoom
Conference: CAIMS - PIMS Coronavirus Modelling Conference
Subject: Mathematics, Mathematical Biology
Class: Scientific
Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2020
Location: Zoom
Conference: CAIMS - PIMS Coronavirus Modelling Conference
Subject: Mathematics, Mathematical Biology
Class: Scientific
Abstract:
I will look at a simple theoretical model of a standard branching process with branchers removed by a contact tracing procedure. The talk will identify the parameter range in which the contact tracing is able to make the process sub- critical.
