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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Location and Time

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
Title: Disease Signatures
Slides: Disease Signatures
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

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
Title: Different Scales of BioDefense - Can societies be both safe and efficient?
Slides: Different Scales of BioDefense - Can societies be both safe and efficient?
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

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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