Brenda Latka, (Program Chair), DIMACS, latka@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Wayne Getz, UC Berkeley, getz@nature.berkeley.edu

Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba, gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca

Fritz Hahne, AIMS, fjwh@aims.ac.za

John Hargrove, SACEMA, jhargrove@sun.ac.za

Simon Levin, Princeton University, slevin@eno.princeton.edu

Edward Lungu, University of Botswana, lunguem@mopipi.ub.bw

Fred Roberts, DIMACS, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Alex Welte, Wits University, awelte@cam.wits.ac.za

This Advanced Study Institute is jointly organized with African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), and
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA).

This Advanced Study Institute is jointly sponsored by:

• African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
• DIMACS
• US National Science Foundation
• South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA)

Lecture Slides:

• Lecture Slides - Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
  • Lecture 1 - An Introduction to Optimal Control Applied to Disease Models

  • Lecture 2 - Introductory Lecture 2

  • Lecture 3 - Systems and Bounds on Controls

  • Lecture 4 - Bang-bang and Singular Controls

  • Lecture 5 - Optimal Control of Discrete Models

  • Numerical Solutions of Optimal Control Problems

  • Computer Lab

  • Homework

  
  
• Lecture Slides - James Lloyd-Smith, Pennsylvania State University
  • Introduction to Infectious Diseases (ppt)

  • Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling (ppt)

  • Introduction to Infectious Diseases (pdf)

  • Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling (pdf)

  • Incidence Functions and Population Thresholds

  • Population Heterogeneity, Structure, and Mixing

  • Disease Control

  • Parameter Estimation, Uncertainty, Model Fitting, Model Selection, and Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis

  
  
• Lecture Slides - Fred Roberts, DIMACS
  • Graph-theoretical Problems Arising from Defending Against Bioterrorism and Controlling the Spread of Fires

  
  

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