DIMACS 2002-2011 Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology

DIMACS Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology Seminar Series 2005 - 2006

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. We will hold the seminar Mondays from 12 to 1:20, with lunch in Room 431. We will meet roughly every other week. Please send speaker suggestions to James Abello and please volunteer to speak if you haven't already. The series is presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, and more information can be found at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/2002_Epid.

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All seminars will be held at 12:00-1:30pm 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, please contact the organizer, James Abello (abello@dimacs.rutgers.edu).

Calendar

Fall 2005 Seminars

Monday, September 19, 2005: Speaker: Nina Fefferman, DIMACS and Tufts University

Monday, October 3, 2005: Speaker: Michael Capalbo, DIMACS; Title: The Firefighter Problem on $d$-dimensional Grids and Hartke's Conjecture; Slides: The Firefighter Problem on $d$-dimensional Grids and Hartke's Conjecture; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, October 17, 2005: Speaker: Nina Fefferman, DIMACS and Tufts University; Title: Termites in the Nation's Service (part 2): More details than you wanted; Slides: Termites in the Nation's Service (part 2): More details than you wanted; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, October 31, 2005: Speaker: Kah Loon Ng, DIMACS; Title:Generalized firefighting on the 2 dimensional infinite grid and centrality measures in social networks; Slides: Generalized firefighting on the 2 dimensional infinite grid and centrality measures in social networks; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, November 7, 2005: Speaker: Regina Dolgoarshinnykh, Columbia University; Title: Threshold Phenomena in Simple Epidemics with Recovery; Slides: Epidemic Modeling: SIRS Models; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 433 - NOTE: Room change

Monday, November 14, 2005: Speaker: Dmitriy Fradkin, Rutgers University; Title: Finding and Interpreting Local Models in Analysis of Epidemiological Data; Slides: Finding and Interpreting Local Models in Analysis of Epidemiological Data; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, November 28, 2005: Speaker: V.S. Anil Kumar, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech; Title: Algorithmic problems in Epidemiology; Slides: Algorithmic problems in Epidemiology; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, December 5, 2005: Speaker: Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University; Title: Optimization-Based Data Mining for Epilepsy Research; Slides: Optimization and Data Mining in Epilepsy Research; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, December 12, 2005: Speaker: Ramanan Laxminarayan, Resources for the Future; Title: The influence of economic incentives on hospital infection control: an application of economic-epidemiology; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Spring 2006 Please note lunch will no longer be served.

Monday, February 13, 2006: Speaker: Nina Fefferman, DIMACS and Tufts University

Monday, February 27, 2006: Speaker: James Abello, DIMACS and Ask.com; Title: Graph Maps; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 13, 2006: Speaker: Dmitriy Fradkin, Ask.com; Title: Using cluster analysis to determine the influence of epidemiological features on medical status of lung cancer patients; Slides: Using cluster analysis to determine the influence of epidemiological features on medical status of lung cancer patient; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 20, 2006: Speaker: Al Ozonoff and Paola Sebastiani, Boston University School of Public Health; Title: Statistical modeling for prospective surveillance: paradigm, approach, and methods; Slides: Statistical modeling for prospective surveillance: paradigm, approach, and method; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 27, 2006: Speaker: Scott Lynch, Princeton University; Title: A Bayesian Approach to Multistate Life Tables for Use in Social Epidemiology; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 10, 2006: Speaker: Martin Kulldorff, Harvard University; Title: Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 17, 2006: Speaker: Sung Ji, Rutgers University; Title: The Simpson-Elsasser-Wolfram (SEW) Framework for Modeling the Living Cell; Slides: The Simpson-Elsasser-Wolfram (SEW) Framework for Modeling the Living Cell; Explanatory Comments on the Slides; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 24, 2006: Speaker: Andrew Lawson, University of South Carolina; Title: Local Likelihood Bayesian Cluster Modeling for Small Area Health Data; Slides: Local Likelihood Bayesian Cluster Modeling for Small Area Health Data; Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm; Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 433

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