Spring 1999

IMA Tutorial:

Introduction to Epidemiology and Immunology

May 13-14, 1999

Speakers:

Zhilan Feng
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
zfeng@math.purdue.edu

Wenzhang Huang
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Alabama, Huntsville
huang@math.uah.edu

Ingemar Nåsell
Department of Mathematics
Royal Institute of Technology
ingemar@math.kth.se

Horst Thieme
Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University

Pauline van den Driessche
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Victoria
pvdd@Math.UVic.CA

and

Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez
Department of Mathematics
UAM-Iztapalapa

Schedule	Participants	Registration
Material from Workshop

TUTORIAL SCHEDULE

All talks are in IMA East Seminar Room, Lind Hall 409 unless otherwise noted.

THURSDAY, MAY 13
9:00 am	Registration and Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:20 am	Willard Miller and Fred Dulles	Introduction
9:30 am	Horst Thieme Arizona State University	Modeling of (Infection) Stages with Arbitrary Length Distribution |(Audio Only)
10:20 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:50 - 11:40 am	Ingemar Nåsell Royal Institute of Technology	Part I: The Importance of Quasi-stationarity in the Study of Extinction Times for Birth-death Processes with Absorbing States. Applications to the SIS Model     Talk
1:30 pm	Zhilan Feng Purdue University	On the Computation of R0 (Including Age-structure Examples) |Talk
2:20 - 3:10 pm	Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez UAM-Iztapalapa	Principles of Immune System Modelling |(Audio Only)
FRIDAY, MAY 14
9:30 am	Pauline van den Driessche University of Victoria	Time Delay in Epidemic Models |(Audio Only)
10:20 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:50 - 11:40 am	Horst Thieme Arizona State University	Asymptotically Autonomous and Competitive Systems |(Audio Only)
1:30 pm	Wenzhang Huang University of Alabama, Huntsville	Application of Monotone Systems Theory to Epidemiological Models

Thursday

Friday

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

As of 5/12/99

Name	Department	Affiliation
Angel Capurro	Departamento de Investigacion	Universidad de Belgrano
Carlos Castillo-Chavez	IMA	University of Minnesota
Lourdes Esteva		University Nac Autonoma de Mexico
Zhilan Feng	Mathematics	Purdue University
Janda Holmes	Mathematics Department	University of Tennessee
Sarah Holte	Biostatistics	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mary Ann Horn	Mathematics	Vanderbilt University
Wenzhang Huang	Mathematical Sciences	University of Alabama, Huntsville
Maia Martcheva
Douglas Meade	Mathematics	University of South Carolina
Ingemar Nåsell	Mathematics	Royal Institute of Technology
Douglas E. Norton	Mathematical Sciences	Villanova University
Mouzin Olivier		Biomechanics Orthopaedic Laboratory
Sonja Sandberg	Mathematics	Framingham State College
Baojun Song	Biometrics	Cornell University
Horst Thieme	Mathematics	Arizona State University
Dean T. Tsukayama	Medicine	Hennepin County Medical Center
Pauline van den Driessche	Mathematics & Statistics	University of Victoria
Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez	Mathematics	UAM- Iztapalapa
Liancheng Wang	Mathematics & Statistics	Mississippi State University
Mary Lou Zeeman	Mathematics and Statistics	University of Texas at San Antonio

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