Spatial opinion separation in social systems: A mean field approach

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Spatial opinion separation in social systems: A mean field approach

  • Event time: 11:30am
  • Event date: 22nd April 2015
  • Speaker: Jérôme Michaud (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

Opinion dynamics in social systems is a difficult problem to solve. A way to approximate this dynamics is to rely on the so-called Brownian agents framework introduced by Frank Schweitzer. This is a particular type of multi-agent system. In this talk I will introduce Schweitzer's formalism and present a mean-field approximation of opinion separation without or with external support. If times allows, I will also discuss critical conditions for spatial opinion separation.

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.