Interplay of Strategic Decision Making and Spread of Epidemics

This 28-minute lecture by Ashish Ranjan Hota at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences explores the interplay between strategic decision making and epidemic spread. Part of the "Decisions, Games, and Evolution" program scheduled for March 10-21, 2025, at ICTS Bengaluru, the talk examines how individual choices impact both personal survival and group outcomes during epidemics. Learn about evolutionary game theory applications to epidemic modeling, where individual behavioral decisions and population-level disease dynamics interact. The program brings together biologists, cognitive scientists, economists, and physicists to foster interdisciplinary collaboration on understanding decision-making across scales, from microbial communities to human societies. Discover how network structures, learning strategies, and environmental factors influence social conflict resolution and collective outcomes in the context of disease spread.