DIMACS Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology Seminar 2004 - 2005

We are pleased to announce the DIMACS Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology Seminar Series. The goal is to present talks on matters relating to disease, its spread, transmission, containment, or related questions, if possible with a computational or mathematical flavor. The series is presented under the auspices of the DIMACS 2002-2007 Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, and more information can be found at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/2002_Epid.

Location and Time

For the Fall Semester all seminars will be held at 11:30-12:50pm in the DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ. The seminar will include lunch.

For the Spring Semester all seminars will be held at 2:30 - 3:45 pm in the DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

For the Summer Semester all seminars will be held at 2:30 - 3:45 pm in the DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

If you or anyone you know would like to give a seminar, then please contact the organizer, James Abello (abello@dimacs.rutgers.edu).

Calendar

Monday, October 11, 2004

Speaker: Fred Roberts, DIMACS

Title: Graph-Theoretical Models of the Spread and Control of Disease

Time: Fall Semester: 11:30-12:50pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, October 25, 2004

Speaker: Sara Soffer, Rutgers University

Title: A new clustering coefficient

Time: Fall Semester: 11:30-12:50pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, November 1, 2004

Speaker: Tanya Berger-Wolf, DIMACS Post Doc

Title: An example of a disease outbreak simulation in an urban environment: TRANSIMS and EpiSims

Time: Fall Semester: 11:30-12:50pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, November 8, 2004

Speaker: William E. Halperin, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health University of Medicine and Dentistry

Title: Surveillance Mistakes

Time: Fall Semester: 11:30-12:50pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, November 15, 2004

Speaker: Michael Capalbo, DIMACS

Title: Transmission Probabilities in Disease Spread in Random Power Law Graphs

Time: Fall Semester: 11:30-12:50pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, November 29, 2004

Speaker: Martin Pal, DIMACS

Title: Discussion of the paper "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network", by David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos

Time: Fall Semester: 11:30-12:50pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, December 6, 2004

Speaker: Ilya Muchnik, DIMACS

Title: Influences on Breast Cancer Survival via SVM Classification in the SEER Database

Time: Fall Semester: 11:30-12:50pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, December 13, 2004

Speaker: Alex Pogel, University of New Mexico

Title: Generalized Contingency Tables, Concept Lattices and Graph Partitions

Time: Fall Semester: 11:30-12:50pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, January 24, 2005

Speaker: Alexei Vazquez, University of Notre Dame (Host: Sara Soffer)

Title: The Impact of Non-Poisson Contact Processes on Virus Spreading

Slides: Non-Poisson Contact Processes on Virus Spreading

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, January 31, 2005

Speaker: Michael Capalbo, DIMACS

Title: Transmission Probabilities and Disease Spread

Slides: Transmission Probabilities and Disease Spread

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 433

Monday, February 7, 2005

Speaker: Stephen Eubank, Virgina Tech

Title: Modeling Disease Transmission Across Social Networks

Slides: Modeling Disease Transmission Across Social Networks

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 14, 2005

Speaker: Madhav V. Marathe, Virgina Tech

Title: CANCELLED Computational Aspects of Representing and Analyzing Information, Social & Infrastructure Networks

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 21, 2005

Speaker: Martin Pal, DIMACS

Title: Unbalanced Graph Cuts

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 28, 2005

Speaker: Dona Schneider, Rutgers University

Title: What's New in Surveillance?

Slides: What's New in Surveillance?

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 7, 2005

No Seminar scheduled due to theWorking Group on Order-theoretic Aspects of Epidemiology

This is a two part event.

Part 1 is a tutorial session. It is open to anyone wishing to attend. There are no registration fees. Please advise Maria Mercado, (mercado@dimacs.rutgers.edu) if you are planning on attending.

Part 2 is the working group portion. This remains by invitation only. If you are interested in attending the working group, you may contact:
Mel Janowitz, (melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu)

Monday, March 21, 2005

Speaker: Kah Loon Ng, DIMACS

Title: A Survey of Some Results on the Firefighter Problem

Slides: A Survey of some results on the Firefighter Problem

References: Some references for the firefighter problem:

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 28, 2005

Speaker: Tanya Berger-Wolf, DIMACS

Title: Persistent Social Groups

Slides: Persistent Social Groups

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 4, 2005

Speaker: Dmitriy Fradkin, DIMACS

Title: SVM in Analysis of Cross-Sectional Data

Slides: SVM in Analysis of Cross-Sectional Epidemiological Data

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 11, 2005

Speaker: Neal Lesh, Harvard University

Title: Gadgets for good: How computer researchers can help save lives in poor countries.

Slides: Gadgets for good: How computer researchers can help save lives in poor countries

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 18, 2005

Speaker: Jared Saia, University of New Mexico

Title: Choosing a random node in a large-scale network

Slides: Choosing a Random Peer

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 25, 2005

DIMACS Epidemiology Minisymposium

Time: 10:00 AM - 4:25 PM

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, May 2, 2005

Speaker: Madhav V. Marathe, Virgina Tech

Title: Computational Aspects of Representing and Analyzing Information, Social & Infrastructure Networks

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, May 23, 2005

Speaker: Qi Xia, Rutgers University

Title: Exact Methods Applied to Group Sequential and Other Stratified Comparative Poisson Designs

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, June 6, 2005

Speaker: Mike Capalbo, DIMACS

Title: Stopping the spread of infection in a social network with limited vaccination allowed during each step

Time: Spring Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm*

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, June 20, 2005

Speaker: Tanya Berger-Wolf, DIMACS

Title: Computational Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks

Time: Summer Semester: 2:30 - 3:45 pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

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