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Mathematical Models for Prediction and Control of Epidemics (Virtual Workshop) August 12, 2020 - August 14, 2020

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Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday
08:00 AM - 09:15 AM
  Tutorial on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Epidemics
Abba Gumel (University of Maryland)
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
  Break
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states
Joseph Lewnard (University of California, Berkeley)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  Overview: Epidemiological Modeling and Policy
Marc Lipsitch (Harvard University)
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
  Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  Age-dependent effects in the transmission and control of COVID-19 epidemics
Rosalind Eggo (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Real-time data fusion to guide disease forecasting models
Sara Del Valle (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
  Break
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
  Panel
Sara Del Valle (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rosalind Eggo (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Abba Gumel (University of Maryland), Joseph Lewnard (University of California, Berkeley), Marc Lipsitch (Harvard University)
Aug 13, 2020
Thursday
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
  Adaptive Designs for Epidemic Control: Test and Respond Strategies for COVID-19
Maya Petersen (University of California, Berkeley), Mark van der Laan (University of California, Berkeley)
09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
  Break
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
  Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University)
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
  Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
  Bayesian Approaches to the heterogeneity in the Covid-19 original R_0 coefficient
Susan Holmes (Stanford University)
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
  Break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  COVID-19 Data Repository and County-level Death Count Prediction in the US
Bin Yu (University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
  Break
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
  Panel
Susan Athey (Stanford University), Elamin Elbasha (Merck Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc), Marc Fleaurbaey (Princeton University), Matthew Jackson (Stanford University), Ali Jadbabaie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Maya Petersen (University of California, Berkeley)
Aug 14, 2020
Friday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  Introduction to the Mathematics of Epidemics on Networks
Richard Durrett (Duke University)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  A stochastic SIR model on a random network with given vertex degrees
Svante Janson (Uppsala University)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  Break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Modeling to Mitigate the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lauren Meyers (University of Texas at Austin)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
  Break
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
  Panel
Richard Durrett (Duke University), Lauren Meyers (University of Texas at Austin), Jacob Steinhardt (UC Berkeley), Vanessa Vargas (Sandia National Laboratories), Katherine Yelick (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
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