Title: On the Spread of the Viruses on the Internet 

Speaker: Amin Saberi

Abstract:

We analyze the contact process on random graphs generated according to the preferen-

tial attachment scheme as a model for the spread of viruses in the Internet. We show that

any virus with a positive rate of spread from a node to its neighbors has a non-vanishing

chance of becoming epidemic. 

Join work with N. Berger, C. Borgs, and J. Chayes