Up-to-the-minute Reports on Mathematical Epidemiology

Friday, October 12, 2012: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
606 (WSCC)
Chair:
Ricardo Cortez, PhD, Professor, Tulane University

Description: Mathematical models of disease transmission are used to determine levels of infection among populations in real or hypothesized conditions. Their aim is to uncover effective intervention strategies and to understand the effects of environmental and behavioral factors. This session highlights cutting-edge work and the far-reaching applicability of these models.

Sponsored by: American Mathematical Society



10:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:20 AM
Disease Dynamics in Consumer Populations: Consequences of Producer-Mediated Disease Transmission and Progression
Paul Hurtado, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , MBI: Mathematical Biosciences Institute
10:40 AM
Dynamical systems models of multilevel interventions for stroke prevention in minority populations
Brisa Sanchez, PhD , Assistant Professor , University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
11:00 AM
Epidemic Spread of Influenza Viruses: the Impact of Transient Populations on Disease Dynamics
Karen Rios-Soto, PhD , Assistant Professor , University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
11:20 AM
Discrete-time epidemic models
Abdul Yakubu, PhD , Professor , Howard University