Theme Weeks on Transmission Heterogeneity
Overview
First week:
Short introductory course (3-4 hours); 4-day workshop on mathematics;
1 day workshop on applications
Second week:
Research Time (4-5 resident faculty); Friday Colloquium
Also, 1-day symposium in the Second Week: Spatio-temporal Patterns
Schedule
09:00 to 10:00 |
Introductory Heterogeniety Lecture I
Ping Yan (Public Health Agency of Canada) |
10:00 to 10:30 |
Break
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10:30 to 11:00 |
Yanni Xiao (Xi'an Jiaotong University) |
11:00 to 11:30 |
John Glasser (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) |
11:30 to 13:00 |
Lunch
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13:00 to 13:10 |
Welcome and Introduction
Fields Director Ed Bierstone and Organizer Jianhong Wu |
13:10 to 14:00 |
Yiming Shao (Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention) |
14:00 to 14:45 |
A modeling based scenario analysis for optimal HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in China's high prevalence regions
Jie Lou (Shanghai University) |
14:45 to 15:15 |
Break
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15:15 to 15:45 |
Introduction to IDRC and the Global Health Research Initiative
Renée Larocque and David O'Brien (IDRC) |
15:40 to 17:40 |
Round Table Discussion: Current Status of the IDRC/CRC Canada-China Collaboration on Disease Modeling and Management
Fred Brauer (University of British Columbia) |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Introductory Heterogeniety Lecture II
Chris Bauch (University of Guelph) |
12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00 to 14:30 |
Multigroup populations, pair formation, and epidemic disease
Karl Hadeler (U. of Tuebingen and Arizona State U) |
15:00 to 15:30 |
Break
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09:30 to 10:00 |
Zhilan Feng (Purdue University) |
10:00 to 10:30 |
Evaluating health and economic outcomes for H1N1
Beate Sander (Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion) |
10:30 to 11:00 |
Break
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11:00 to 12:00 |
No Title Specified
Jane Heffernan (York University) |
12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00 to 14:30 |
Dynamics of an epidemic model with non-local infections for diseases with latency over a patchy environment
Xingfu Zou (University of Western Ontario) |
14:30 to 15:00 |
Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
15:00 to 15:30 |
Break
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09:30 to 10:00 |
Ying-hen Hsieh (China Medical University) |
10:00 to 10:30 |
Differential susceptibility and infectivity. Application to transmission of HBV in Subsaharian Africa
Gauthier Sallet (INRIA & IRD) |
10:30 to 11:00 |
Break
|
11:00 to 11:30 |
Modelling heterogeneities in Chlamydia data for street involved youth
Amy Greer (Public Health Agency of Canada) |
11:30 to 12:00 |
Discussion Session
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12:00 to 13:30 |
Lunch
|
13:30 to 15:00 |
Discussion session
|
15:00 to 15:30 |
Break
|
09:30 to 10:00 |
Welcome and Introduction
|
10:00 to 10:30 |
Spatio-temporal connectivity of malaria
Marie-Josee Fortin (University of Toronto) |
10:30 to 11:00 |
The WNV-MAGS System for the geosimulation and analysis of the West Nile Virus Propagation
Bernard Moulin (Lavel University) |
11:00 to 11:30 |
Predicting the spatial spread of Lyme disease in Canada
Patrick Leighton (University of Montreal) |
11:30 to 12:00 |
Modeling the mosquito growth with weather: a case study in Peel Region
Huaiping Zhu (York University) |
12:00 to 13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30 to 14:00 |
Spatial analysis and modeling of Dengue Virus transmission
Jared Aldstadt (New York State University at Buffalo) |
14:00 to 14:30 |
Spatial-temporal analysis of global bird flu outbreaks
Dongmei Chen (Queen’s University) |
14:30 to 15:00 |
The Interaction of migratory birds and domestic poultry and its role in sustaining avian influenza
Rongsong Liu (University of Wyoming) |
15:00 to 15:30 |
Break
|
15:30 to 16:00 |
FMVS (Filariasis Monitoring VisualizationSystem) – A GIS based approach for the Integrated Filariasus Management
USN Murty (Indian Institute of Chemical Technology) |
16:00 to 16:30 |
Studying the spread of infectious diseases using the global air transportation network as a conduit - the Bio.Diaspora Project
Julien Arino (University of Manitoba) |
16:30 to 17:00 |
H1N1 Pandemic Surveillance Real time GIS Tools
Kieran Moore (Queen’s University) |
17:00 to 17:30 |
Discussion Session
|
09:30 to 10:00 |
Traveling Waves in Diffusive Ross-Macdonald Type Host-Vector Models
Jing Qing (University of Miami) |
10:00 to 10:30 |
A multi-patch malaria model with demographic structure
Daozhou Gao (University of Miami) |
10:30 to 11:00 |
Stability analysis of an epidemic model with multi-group and multi-infectious-stage structure for infectious diseases
Hongbin Guo (York University) |
11:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Discussion Session
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15:00 to 15:30 |
Break
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Stability Analysis of a Model of Transmission of Schistosomiasis
Gautheir Sallet (INRIA & IRD) |