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Topics of this working group will be discussed next at the second meeting of the working group on Spatio-temporal and Network Modeling
June 10
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:05 Opening Remarks
Fred Roberts
Director of DIMACS
9:05 - 10:30 Talk Session I
Ira Schwartz
Naval Research Laboratory
Stephanie Forrest
University of New Mexico
Conference Themes
Alun Lloyd
Institute for Advanced Study
Epidemiological Theory
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 Talk Session I (cont'd)
Joan Aron
Science Communication Studies and Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health
The Benefits of a Notification Process in Addressing the
Worsening Computer Virus Problem: Results of a Survey
and a Simulation Model
Alessandro Vespignani
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste
The Role of Connectivity Patterns in Computer Virus Spreading
12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:30 Talk Session II
Stephanie Forrest
University of New Mexico
A Vision of an Adaptive Artificial Immune System
Matt Williamson
HP Labs, Bristol (UK)
Computer Viruses: A View from the Trenches
3:30 - 4:00 BREAK
4:00 - 4:45 Talk Session II (cont'd)
Yamir Vega
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste
Epidemic Outbreaks and Immunization in Complex
Heterogeneous Networks
4:45 - 5:30 Discussion Session
5:30 - 6:30 Wine and Cheese Reception at DIMACS
6:30 - 7:45 Banquet at DIMACS
June 11
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Talk Session III
Lora Billings
Montclair State University
Stochastic Modeling and Chaotic Epidemic Outbreaks
Ira Schwartz
Naval Research Laboratory
Bull's Eye Prediction Theory for Controlling Large Epidemic
Outbreaks Before They Occur
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 Talk Session III (cont'd)
H. G. Solari
University of Buenos Aires
The Time-evolution of Small Populations
Erik Bollt
Clarkson University
Double Trouble: Attack of Two or More Separate Viral Species
12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:30 Talk Session IV
Alfred Steinberg
MITRE Corporation
Part I: A Report on the Mathematical Modeling of Anthrax and
Smallpox
Part II: The Immune System and Interaction with Microbes
Donald Burke
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
A Computational Model of RNA Virus Evolution
3:30 - 4:00 BREAK
4:00 - 6:00 Discussion Group Session I
Discussion groups meet separately
6:00 Dinner
June 12
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Talk Session V
Rafail Ostrovsky
Telcordia Technologies
Computer Viruses and Techniques to Defend
Against Them
Zoltan Deszo
University of Notre Dame
Can Viruses Be Halted in a Scale-free Network?
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 Talk Session V (cont'd)
Alun Lloyd
Institute for Advanced Study
Epidemics on Complex Networks: Questions and Directions
12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:30 Discussion Group Session II
Discussion groups meet separately
3:30 - 4:00 BREAK
4:00 - 6:00 Discussion Group Session II cont.
Discussion groups meet separately
6:00 Dinner
June 13
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Plenary Session: Discussion Group Presentations
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary Session: Discussion Group Presentations
12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:30 Plenary Session: Discussion Group Presentations
3:30 - 4:00 BREAK
4:00 - 4:30 Discussion and Farewell
Discussion of followup meeting(s) and projects
Discussion Groups
The meeting will start with short talks on Monday and Tuesday. By late
afternoon Tuesday, we plan to break into "brainstorming groups" to
discuss the role of modeling in the defense against computer virus
attacks. The groups will continue their discussions on Wednesday and
Thursday, drafting brief "white papers" on their topic. We will then
ask each group to summarize their conclusions to the entire meeting.
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