DIMACS 2002-2011 Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology

DIMACS Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology Seminar Series 2006 - 2007

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 1:30, 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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Fall 2006
Spring 2007

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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. The seminars include lunch.

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

Calendar

Fall 2006 Seminars
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Speaker: David Fox, University of Melbourne
Title: An Info-gap Approach to Bio- and Homeland Security
Slides: An Info-gap Approach to Modelling Risk and Uncertainty in Bio-surveillance having Imperfect Detection rates
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, September 11, 2006
Speaker: David Madigan, Rutgers University
Title: Surveillance Methods for Drug Safety
Slides: Data Mining in Pharmacovigilence
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, September 25, 2006
Speaker: Sungchul Ji, Rutgers University
Title: A Novel Method for Characterizing and Classifying Dissipative Structures in the Transcriptomics of Budding Yeast: Potential Applications to Genomics, Proteomics, Metabonomics, and 'Cytomics'
Slides: A Novel Method for Characterizing and Classifying Dissipative Structures in the Transcriptomics of Budding Yeast: Potential Applications to Genomics, Proteomics, Metabonomics, and 'Cytomics'
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, October 9, 2006
Speaker: Nina Fefferman, DIMACS and Tufts University
Title: Determining Optimal Vaccination Strategies in Dynamic Social Networks
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 433

Monday, October 23, 2006
Speaker: Larry Shepp, Rutgers University
Title: Higher Cognition Imaging with Functional MRI
Slides: Negative Dip Imaging in Bold Functional MRI
Slides: Tomography
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, November 6, 2006
In promptu Seminar - if you wish to present a talk contact: James Abello and Nina Fefferman
In order to foster interaction in Computational Methods in Epidemiology, next week, you have the opportunity to share your wisdom on the subject. Each speaker will have roughly 8 minutes for presentation and 7 minutes for discussion. Time will be allotted First come First served.
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, November 20, 2006
Speaker: Elena Naumova, Tufts University School of Medicine
Title: Spatial Dynamics of Influenza Hospitalizations in the US Elderly
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, December 4, 2006
Speaker: Alexei Vazquez, IAS
Title: Spreading Dynamics on Small-World Networks with a Power Law Degree Distribution
Slides: Spreading Dynamics on Small-World Networks with a Power Law Degree Distribution
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Spring 2007 Seminars
Monday, February 5, 2007
Speaker: Holly Gaff, University of Maryland
Title: A Tick-Borne Disease Model - Spread and Control of Ehrlichiosis
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 12, 2007
Speaker: William DuMouchel, Lincoln Technologies Division of Phase Forward, Inc.
Title: Data Mining for Drug Safety: Statistical Analyses of Spontaneous Reports and Clinical Safety Data
Slides: Data Mining for Drug Safety: Statistical Analyses of Spontaneous Reports and Clinical Safety Data
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 19, 2007
Seminar joint with DyDAn
Speaker: Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University
Title: Link Mining: Current State of the Art
Slides: Link Analysis: Current State of the Art
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 5, 2007
Speaker: Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford
Title: The Effects of Immune Selection on the Population Dynamics of Pathogens
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 26, 2007
Speaker: Jonathan Read, University of Warwick
Title: Brief Encounters: Social Contacts and the Transmission of Disease
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 9, 2007
Seminar joint with DyDAn
Speaker: Vladimir Gurvich, Rutgers University
Title: On Complexity of Algorithms for Modeling Disease Transmission and Vaccination Strategies
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, May 21, 2007
Seminar joint with DyDAn
Speaker: Marcus Felson, Rutgers University
Title: Crime's Ecosystem
Slides: Crime's Ecosystem
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

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