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