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                   Symposium 
                    on Modelling and Informatics  
                    of Disease and Environment (SMIDE)  
                    August 29-31, 2011  
                    held at 280N York Lanes (See 
                    #24 on map) 
                    Keele Campus, York University 
                    4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3 
                     
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                   Organizing Committee: 
                    Prasanth Goswami, CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling 
                    and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), India 
                    Jianhong Wu (contact), Mprime Centre for Disease Modeling 
                    at York University,  
                    Jörg Grigull, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 
                    York University 
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            There will be 
            several keynote lectures introducing the national capacity of both 
            India and Canada in the areas of critical importance to environment 
            and vector-borne disease modeling: national priorities, disease surveillance, 
            data sharing and bioinformatics, statistical analysis and mathematical 
            modeling. There will be a few talks presenting the current status 
            of collaborative research in West Nile virus, lymphatic filariasis 
            and avian influenza, there will also be some exchanges of on-going 
            projects on the roles of mathematcal modelling in the real-time response 
            and management of emerging vector-borne diseases. 
             The symposium will be organized in a relatively unstructured fashion, 
              so each plenary and invited lecture will be followed by a mediated 
              group discussion. There will be less formal lectures than usual 
              workshops to allow participate to form groups to discuss potential 
              collaborations. 
            Tentative Agenda 
              Day 1: Surveillance and modeling environmental impact on health 
              Day 2: Modeling capacity for disease control and emergency response 
              Day 3: Bioinformatics and in-hosting dynamics 
             
            CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS as of August 16, 2011: 
            
               
                | Full Name | 
                University/Affiliation | 
               
               
                | Akhter, Tahmina | 
                Ryerson University | 
               
               
                | Arino, Julien | 
                University of Manitoba | 
               
               
                | Chen, Dongmei | 
                Queen's University | 
               
               
                | Chen, Michael | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Chen, Yuming | 
                WilFrid Laurier University | 
               
               
                | Dobrovolny, Hana | 
                Ryerson University | 
               
               
                | Duvvuri, Venkata | 
                PHO-Public Health Laboratory - Toronto | 
               
               
                | Eberl, Hermann J. | 
                University of Guelph | 
               
               
                | Fan, Guihong | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Gordon, Paul | 
                University of Guelph | 
               
               
                | Greer, Amy | 
                Public Health Agency of Canada | 
               
               
                | Hao, Lina | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Heffernan, Jane | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Jaberi, Majid | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Lou, Yijun | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Madras, Neal | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Mishra, Sharmistha | 
                St Michael's Hospital | 
               
               
                | Moghadas, Seyed | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Mutheneni, Srinivasa Rao | 
                Indian Institute of Chemical Technology | 
               
               
                | Rahman, Kazi | 
                University of Guelph | 
               
               
                | Ramesh, K.V. | 
                CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modeling & Computer Simulation | 
               
               
                | Ratti, Vardayani | 
                University of Guelph | 
               
               
                | Suryanarayana Upadhyayula, Murty | 
                CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology | 
               
               
                | Wang, Xiangsheng | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Wu, Jianhong | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Wu, Xiaotian | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Yan, Ping | 
                Public Health Agency of Canada | 
               
               
                | Yang, Yong | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Zhu, Huaiping | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Zivari-Piran, Hossein | 
                York University | 
               
             
             
             
            
              
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