Talk
Local weak convergence for a general stochastic SIR model
Talk by Dr. Jean-Jil Duchamps
Speaker invited by: Prof. Dr. Jean Bertoin
Date: 20.03.24 Time: 17.15 - 18.45 Room: ETH HG G 43
We study an epidemiological model where infections arise in a population according to a general, non-Markovian SIR-like model with a time-dependent contact rate. We make few assumptions, only requiring that the number of potential infections generated by an individual has finite expectation on bounded time intervals. This model can be viewed as a general Crump-Mode-Jagers model with interactions, and we study the local weak convergence of its infection graph, which yields (1) a functional law of large numbers for our SIR process, and (2) the identification of a "contact-tracing Markov process" that traces back the chain of infection leading to a typical individual. This is joint work with Félix Foutel-Rodier and Emmanuel Schertzer.