This week's seminar

[CM ICTP - Trieste]

CONDENSED MATTER AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS SECTION

	
INFORMAL SEMINAR  on  Statistical Physics




Friday, 24 March    -    2:00 p.m.



Room 239 -   Main Bldg.- II floor

		

S. SINHA   ( The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai )



" The emergence of popularity: Statistical mechanics of movie income "



	Abstract

Why do certain products/ideas become extremely popular, while other 
quite similar entities don't even make it off the mark?  Can popularity 
be understood simply as a statistical phenomenon, completely 
independent of the intrinsic quality of the product/idea? In this work, 
we look in detail at movie popularity, analysing the income of movies 
released in recent years, in both USA and India.  Our results offer 
interesting parallels with popularity in other fields, e.g., of 
scientific papers as measured by citations.  We conclude with 
discussion of models we have proposed to explain various features of 
the observed movie popularity distribution.

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