This was part of Applications of Mean Field Games

Controlling Propagation of epidemics via mean-field control

Wuchen Li, University of South Carolina

Friday, November 19, 2021



Abstract: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is changing and impacting lives on a global scale. In this paper, we introduce a mean-field game model in controlling the propagation of epidemics on a spatial domain. The control variable, the spatial velocity, is first introduced for the classical disease models, such as the Suspected-infected-recovered model. For this proposed model, we provide fast numerical algorithms based on proximal primal-dual methods. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed model illustrates how to separate infected patients in a spatial domain effectively.  This is based on joint work with Wonjun Lee, Siting Liu, Hamidou Tembine, Stanley Osher.