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US-Africa Advanced Study Institute on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases in Africa
June 30 - July 11, 2008
Organizers:
Wayne Getz , UC Berkeley, getz@nature.berkeley.edu
Abba Gumel , University of Manitoba, gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca
Fritz Hahne , AIMS, fjwh@aims.ac.za
John Hargrove , SACEMA, jhargrove@sun.ac.za
Simon Levin , Princeton University, slevin@eno.princeton.edu
Edward Lungu , University of Botswana, lunguem@mopipi.ub.bw
Fred Roberts , DIMACS, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Alex Welte , Wits University, awelte@cam.wits.ac.za
Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS
Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology .
This Advanced Study Institute is jointly organized with African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) , and South African Centre for
Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) .
This Advanced Study Institute is jointly sponsored by:
The instructors of the advanced study institute have provided the following background material and lecture notes so that you may prepare yourself for the institute.
If you have any problems downloading this material, please
contact Christine Spassione or Linda Casals and we will email the documents needed.
Readings from Wayne Getz:
Basic Methods for Modeling the Invasion
and Spread of Contagious Diseases by Wayne M. Getz and James
O. Lloyd-Smith
Modeling the Invasion and Spread of
Contagious Diseases in Heterogeneous Populations by Wayne
M. Getz, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Paul C. Cross, Shirli Bar-David,
Philip L. Johnson, Travis C. Porco, and Maria S. Sanchez
The Mathematics of Infectious
Diseases by Herbert W. Hethcote
When individual behaviour matters: homogeneous and network models
in epidemiology by Shweta Bansal, Bryan T. Grenfell and Lauren Ancel Meyers
The evolutionary
epidemiology of vaccination by Sylvain Gandon and Troy Day
Spatial dynamics and genetics of infectious diseases on heterogeneous landscapes
by Leslie A. Real and Roman Biek
Seasonal dynamics of recurrent epidemics
by Lewi Stone, Ronen Olinky & Amit Huppert
Time-dependent spectral analysis of
epidemiological time-series with wavelets by
Bernard Cazelles, Mario Chavez, Guillaume Constantin de Magny,
Jean-Francois Gue´gan and Simon Hales
Origins of major human infectious
diseases by
Nathan D. Wolfe, Claire Panosian Dunavan & Jared Diamond
The pluses and minuses of R0
M. G. Roberts
Readings from Juliet Pulliam:
Readings from Rachid Ouifki and Carel Pretorius (for Thursday, July 3rd: Entire day is devoted to HIV and TB modelling):
Contacting the Center
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