DIMACS 2002-2011 Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology


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

Fall Seminars
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

Spring Seminars *Please note new time will be 2:30 - 3:45 on Mondays for the spring seminar series
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

Summer Seminars
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

*Please note new time will be 2:30 - 3:45 on Mondays for the spring and summer seminar series
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