Really not like a bunch of teachers giving ideas on how to run a department in a school:
By putting in place social distancing measures now, the growth can be slowed down dramatically, and thousands of lives can be spared. We consider the social distancing measures taken as of today as insucient, and we believe that additional and more restrictive measures should be taken immediately, as it is already happening in other countries across the world.
The first few signatories (out of more than 400)
- Steven H. Strogatz, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, Northeastern University, USA;
Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
- Shlomo Havlin, Professor of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Yamir Moreno, Director of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, Zaragozza;
President of the Network Science Society; Past-President of the Complex Systems Society;
- Guido Caldarelli, London Institute of Mathematical Science; Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at IMT
School for Advanced Studies Lucca; President of the Complex Systems Society
- Alain Barrat, Research Director, Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille, and Turing Center for Living
Systems, Marseille, France
- Reka Albert, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Biology, Pennsylvania State University
- Mason A. Porter, Professor in Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Danielle S. Bassett, J Peter Skirkanich Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA
10. Raissa M. D'Souza, Professor, Universityof California Davis; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Editor, Physical Review Research