UL expert devises technique to predict spread of disease

AN academic at the University of Limerick has come up with a new technique to predict changes in situations ranging from epidemics to future topics of gossip.

Professor James Gleeson’s new mathematical technique analyses and predicts the outcome of major changes in a diverse range of spreading phenomena such as epidemics, computer viruses and social media trends.

A paper by him entitled High-accuracy approximation of binary-state dynamics on networks has just been published by leading science journal, Physical Review Letters.