Speaker
Prof.
Marie-Therese Wolfram
(University of Warwick)
Description
There is a large literature on opinion formation models; in many of them the dynamics are driven by binary interactions between individuals that are modulated by an underlying (social) network structure. In this talk I will discuss different mathematical modeling approaches in this setting, and how we can derive partial differential equation models in suitable scaling limits. Furthermore I will focus on the question of opinion control; in particular the question of how one can steer an opinion towards a desired target or prevent consensus.
