Reflections from Ossi's keynote talk at NetSciX'25

I was proud to give a keynote at NetSciX’25 in Indore, India.

NetSciX is the flagship winter conference of the Network Science Society.

My talk, “Using an Interaction-Driven Contagion Model to Understand the Temporal Dynamics of Disease Spread,” summarized three recently published papers. These works focused on a novel temporal model for analyzing the dynamic interplay between people's interactions and the spread of airborne diseases

Through unique temporal modeling, we showed that:

- The temporal dynamics of a community have a more significant effect on the spread of the disease, then the characteristics of the spreading processes

- When considering airborne diseases, it is important to consider the duration of temporal meetings to model the spread of pathogens in a

population

- The enigmatic nature of asymptomatic transmission stems from the latent effect of the network density and has a substantial impact

only in sparse communities.

Many thanks to my former lab members Alex Abbey and Yanir Marmor and our collaborator Yuval Shahar.

I am thankful for the opportunity to share and engage in such a vibrant scientific community!

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