When Zombies Attack!

Poststructural Pub
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Hey Emm! Your kid might have a shot at a career with these guys.

[u]When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection[/u] (PDF file)

Here’s the abstract:

Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the model to introduce a latent period of zombification, whereby humans are infected, but not infectious, before becoming undead. We then modify the model to include the effects of possible quarantine or a cure. Finally, we examine the impact of regular, impulsive reductions in the number of zombies and derive conditions under which eradication can occur. We show that only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.

In: Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress
Editors: J.M. Tchuenche and C. Chiyaka, pp. 133-150
ISBN 978-1-60741-347-9
(c) 2009 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

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Very nice. Who, I wonder, funded this research? :astonished:
Well, at any rate, I can hardly imagine my kid mathematically modeling anything, but he might be able to find work in a consultant or guide capacity.

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Whoops! I probably should’ve put this in [u]this thread hans started[/u].

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There are possible outcomes one of which The Kid will see what his future holds and that even the study of Zombies can have all the fun sucked out of it. That’s why I didn’t study anything fun in college. I wanted fun stuff to remain fun.