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Edinburgh 14-18 May 2007

`Spatio-temporal and Network Modelling of Diseases'

PROGRAMME

Monday 14th May

9.30-10.30
Denis Mollison   Small worlds and giant epidemics: an overview of s-t and network models

11.00-13.00
Mark Handcock   "Statistical modelling of networks"
Martina Morris   "Application of network methods to infectious disease modelling"

buffet lunch at ICMS

14.00-15.00 & 15.30-16.30
everyone   An `introductions' session, with each participant given 3 minutes to outline their interests

17.00-18.00
Tom Britton   Networks, epidemics and vaccination: a review

19.30 Dinner : Henderson's

Tuesday 15th May

9.00-11.00
Chris Gilligan "Parameter estimation for spatio-temporal models of botanical epidemics"
Phil O'Neill   Statistical inference for spatial and structured population epidemic models

11.30-13.00
Frank Ball   From individuals to populations with time for discussion
Contributions are invited from Nina Fefferman (**), Peter Dodd, and others (*)

14.15-16.00
"Approaches to modelling structured and spatio-temporal data"
A session of short (5-10 minute) talks, focussing on basic approaches to modelling and analysis rather than results obtained. Contributions are invited from Glenn Marion, Damian Clancy, Luca Giuggioli, Theodore Kypraios, Alex Cook and others (*)

16.00 Walk to and round Edinburgh Botanic Gardens (refreshments available at Terrace Cafe there)

19.30 Conference dinner 1 : Nargile Turkish Restaurant

Wednesday 16th May

9.00-10.30
"R_0 for networks and other structured populations"
Contributions are invited from Rowland Kao (**), Mick Roberts (**), Pete Neal, Gian-Paolo Scalia-Tomba and others (*)

11.00-12.30
"Random graphs - static and dynamic"
Pieter Trapman (**), Christian Steglich, Markus Schwehm, Ng Kah Loon (*)

14.00 Excursion: alternatives include National Galleries, and the Scottish Parliament

15.30-17.15 "From individuals to populations" II

Thursday 17th May

9.00-10.30
"Strategies for looking for patterns in spatio-temporal data"
Derek Cummings, Lisa Sattenspiel, Katie Hampson,
Stephen Riley   Spatial networks of individuals, households and workplaces
and others (*)

11.00-12.30
"Inferring transmission networks from incomplete data"
Martina Morris, Katie Hampson (**)

16.00-18.00
"Disease challenges of the 21st century"
Tommi Asikainen, Mark Woolhouse, Neil Ferguson (**)

19.30 Conference dinner 2: Howies, Waterloo Place

Friday 18th May

Discussions and working sessions

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31st July 2007