Oct 2, 2019
Jorge Corona and Kate Lord
Oct 2, 2019
Engineering, Science and Technology Health and Medicine
New York City

If a plume of toxic smoke was to hit downtown Los Angeles, would you be better staying inside your building or dashing for the street?

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NYU College of Global Public Health professor Joshua M. Epstein’s research uses "agent-based modeling"—think of a more serious version of the game "The Sims"—to predict how real people with real emotions will respond and interact  in the case of a major emergency.