Compartment models have been proposed in the 1920s as a model for the spread of an infectious disease in a society, in a famous article by Kermack and ...

The coronavirus-induced COVID-19 epidemic 1 is constantly pushing governments to take rapid decisions on measures for protecting the public health while minimizing economic damage. The coronavirus ...

An academic has achieved a milestone in statistical/mathematical physics by solving a 100-year-old physics problem -- the discrete diffusion equation in finite space ...

Stochastic modeling has become an indispensable tool in understanding and forecasting the spread of infectious diseases under real-world uncertainties. Unlike deterministic frameworks that assume ...