Introduction to the Directed Percolation Universality Class and the Contact Process
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Introduction to the Directed Percolation Universality Class and the Contact Process
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 15th October 2014
- Speaker: Professor Martin Evans (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
I will give an introduction to the directed percolation problem (first introduced by Hammersley and Broadbent in 1957) and the associated critical behaviour and scaling. I will also discuss a simple stochastic epidemic model that exhibits the same scaling and try to argue why the Directed Percolation universality class is important. If time permits I will discuss related processes that may or may not exhibit the same scaling.
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