DIMACS Tutorial and Working Group on Order-theoretic Aspects of Epidemiology

March 7 - 9, 2005
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

David Ozonoff, Boston University, School of Public Health, dozonoff@bu.edu

Melvin Janowitz, Rutgers University, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Workshop Program:

Tutorial Portion of the Program:

Monday, March 7, 2005

 7:45 -  9:00 Breakfast and registration

 9:00 -  9:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
              Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
              Melvin Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director
              David Ozonoff, Boston University

 9:10 - 10:30 Superquick Tutorial on Epidemiology for Mathematicians
              David Ozonoff, Boston University

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Tutorial on the Theory of Measurement and its Applications
              Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

12:30 -  2:00 Lunch and informal discussions

 2:00 -  3:30 Continuation of Tutorial on the Theory of Measurement and its Applications
              Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

 3:30 -  4:00 Break

 4:00 -  5:00 Formal Concept Analysis with Galicia
              Petko Valtchev, University of Montreal

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

 8:00 -  9:15 Breakfast

 9:15 - 10:15 Continuation of Tutorial on the Theory of Measurement and its Applications
              Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

10:15 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:30 Discussion: Is measurement theory relevant to epidemiology?

Working Group Portion of Program (Open by Invitation Only):

11:30 - 12:15 Management of Quantified Semantic Taxonomies for Biothreat Response
              Cliff Joslyn, Los Alamos National Labs

12:15 -  1:45 Lunch

 1:45 -  2:30 Concept Lattices in Epidemiology
              Alex Pogel, New Mexico State University

 2:30 -  3:00 Discussion: Is formal concept analysis relevant to
              epidemiology? What are its uses?

 3:00 -  3:30 Break

 3:30 -  5:00 More discussions

              Evening social event

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

 8:00 -  9:15 Breakfast

 9:15 -  9:45 A Connection Between Formal Concept Analysis and Boolean Dissimilarities 
              Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director, Rutgers University

 9:45 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Working discussions

12:00 -  1:30 Lunch

 1:30 -  5:00 Nothing formal planned. The afternoon willl be spent making  
              research plans for the future. Coffee will be served at 3pm.

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