DIMACS Workshop on Stochasticity in Population and Disease Dynamics

December 8 - 10, 2008
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University, dushoff at mcmaster.ca

Todd Parsons, University of Pennsylvania, tparsons at sas dot upenn dot edu

Joshua Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania, jplotkin at sas dot upenn dot edu

Workshop Program:

Monday, December 8, 2008

 8:00 -  8:30  Breakfast and Registration

 8:30 -  9:00  Welcoming remarks
	       Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
	      
 9:00 -  9:50  Introductory Remarks
               Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University, Workshop organizer

 9:50 - 10:15  Questions & Discussion

10:15 - 10:45  Break

10:45 - 11:35  Stochasticity and infectious disease management: what can we learn from domestic dog rabies?
               Katie Hampson, University of Sheffield

11:35 - 12:00  Questions & Discussion

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch

 1:00 -  1:50  Insights from stochastic models of zoonotic emergence
               Juliet Pulliam, National Institutes of Health

 1:50 -  2:15  Questions & Discussion

 2:15 -  2:45  Break

 2:45 -  3:35  Demographic Stochasticity in Childhood Diseases
               Alun Lloyd, North Carolina State University

 3:35 -  4:00  Questions & Discussion

 4:00 -  5:30  Group discussion

 5:30 -  7:00  Reception

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

 8:00 -  8:30  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 -  9:50  Epidemics with two levels of mixing
               Frank G. Ball, University of Nottingham

 9:50 - 10:15  Questions & Discussion

10:15 - 10:45  Break

10:45 - 11:35  Identifying separated time scales in stochastic models of reaction networks
               Thomas G. Kurtz, University of Wisconsin, Madison

11:35 - 12:00  Questions & Discussion

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch

 1:00 -  1:50  Stochastic model and statistical inference for the Cuban HIV epidemic with 
               contact-tracing and unobserved infectious population
               Tran Viet Chi, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille

 1:50 -  2:15  Questions & Discussion

 2:15 -  2:45  Break

 2:45 -  3:35  Toward testable predictions of the fixation probability of rare beneficial mutations
               Lindi Wahl, University of Western Ontario

 3:35 -  4:00  Questions & Discussion

 4:00 -  5:30  Group discussion

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
 
 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 11:30  Group discussion

11:30 - 12:00  Closing remarks

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch

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