Spatial opinion separation in social systems with stochastically moving agents

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Spatial opinion separation in social systems with stochastically moving agents

  • Event time: 11:30am
  • Event date: 29th April 2015
  • Speaker: Jérôme Michaud (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

In a previous talk I have discuss the problem of opinion separation in a population using a mean-field approach. In this talk, I will recover some of the mean field results and generalize them using moving Brownian agents. The study of the stability of the evolution equation of the spatial density of agents sharing an opinion will shed more light on the type of transition that occurs.

Ref: Frank Schweitzer, Brownian Agents and Active Particles: Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences, Springer Series in Synergetics, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.