INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

CONFERENCE ON
"MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES: BRIDGING DATA AND MODELS"

 October 28-29, 2011
 Location: Social Science Plaza A, Room2112

This conference is partially supported by Grant Number UL1 RR031985 from
the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, P.I. Andrew Noymer.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28

9:00 – 9:10 Comments by Andrew Noymer, Dept. of Sociology and Donald Saari, Director of IMBS

9:10 – 10:00 DAVID SHAY
“How should we assess the annual health burden associated with influenza?”

10:00 – 10:10 Discussion

10:10 – 10:20 BREAK

10:20 – 11:10 ZHILAN FENG
“Applications of epidemiological models to public health policymaking”

11:10 – 11:20 DISCUSSION

11:20 – 12:10 BRUCE CASWELL
“Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulation of Red Blood Cells and their Suspensions in Health and Disease”

12:10 –12:20 DISCUSSION

12:20 – 1:45  LUNCH BREAK

1:45 – 2:35  RAMANAN LAKSMINARAYAN
“Transboundary problems in infectious diseases”

2:35 – 2:45 DISCISSION

2:45 – 3:00 BREAK

3:00 – 3:50 JUSTIN LESSLER
“Model motivated data collection: The Fluscape Study”

3:50 – 4:00 DISCUSSION

4:00 – 4:50 MICHAEL DEEM
“Immunce response to and evolution of influenza virus”

4:50 – 5:00 DISCUSSION

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29

10:00 – 10:50 ANDREW NOYMER
“Gompertz models of influenza mortality, USA 1959-2007”

10:50 – 11:00 DISCUSSION

11:00 – 11:50

JAMES HOLLAND JONES
“Networks, Models of Social Interaction, and the Dynamics of Infectious Disease”


11:50 – 12:00 DISCUSSION

12:00 – 1:45 LUNCH BREAK

1:45 – 2:35 CARL SIMON
“Complex systems approach to modeling the spread of HIV”

2:35 – 2:45 DISCUSSION

2:45 – 5:00 SUMMARY AND GENERAL DISCUSSION -- “WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?”