May 13-14: Introduction to Epidemiology and Immunology

May 13 - 14, 1999

Content

Overview

Organizers:

Zhilan Feng	Purdue University
Wenzhang Huang	University of Alabama
Ingemar Nasell	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Horst Thieme	Arizona State University
Jorge Velasco-Hernandez	UAM- Iztapalapa
Pauline van den Driessche	University of Victoria

This tutorial serves as an introduction to the IMA Workshop on Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, May 17-21, 1999. The organizers are: Sally Blower, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Kenneth L. Cooke, Denise Kirschner, and Pauline van den Driessche

Schedule

Thursday, May 13, 1999

9:00 am - 9:20 am	Registration and Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:20 am - 9:30 am	Introduction Fred Dulles (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Willard Miller Jr. (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 409
10:20 am - 10:50 am	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
10:50 am - 11:40 am	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 Ingemar Nasell (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))	Lind 409
11:40 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch

Friday, May 14, 1999

9:30 am - 10:20 am	Time Delay in Epidemic Models Pauline van den Driessche (University of Victoria)	Lind 409
10:20 am - 10:50 am	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
11:40 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm	Application of Monotone Systems Theory to Epidemiological Models Wenzhang Huang (University of Alabama)	Keller 3-180

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Kevin Anderson	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Bruce Ayati	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Joan Bechtold		Midwest Orthopedic Research Foundation
Angel Capurro	Departamento de Investigacion	Universidad de Belgrano
Carlos Castillo-Chavez	Department of Mathematics	Cornell University
Fred Dulles	Institute for Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Lourdes Esteva		Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM)
Zhilan Feng	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Gabriela Gomes		University of Warwick
Kathleen Hoffman		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Janda Holmes	Department of Mathematics	University of Tennessee
Sarah Holte	Department of Biostatistics	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mary Ann Horn	Department of Mathematics	Vanderbilt University
Wenzhang Huang	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Alabama
Yoh Iwasa	Department of Biology	Kyushu University
Frithjof Lutscher	Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik	Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Maia Martcheva		University of Florida
Douglas Meade	Department of Mathematics	University of South Carolina
Willard Miller Jr.	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Olivier Monzin		MORF
Ingemar Nasell	Department of Mathematics	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Douglas Norton	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Villanova University
Mouzin Olivier		Biomechanics Orthopaedic Laboratory
Sonja Sandberg	Department of Mathematics	Framingham State College
Zachariah Sinkala	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Middle Tennessee State University
Baojun Song	Biometrics Unit	Cornell University
Moxun Tang	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Horst Thieme	Department of Mathematics	Arizona State University
Dean Tsukayama	Department of Medicine	Hennepin County
Pauline van den Driessche		University of Victoria
Jorge Velasco-Hernandez		UAM- Iztapalapa
Liancheng Wang	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Mississippi State University
Ralf Wittenberg	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu	Department of Mathematics	Howard University
Mary Zeeman	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Texas A & M University