SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 20th ANNIVERSARY YEAR
	May 19-27, 2013 Summer School on Mathematics of Infectious Disease
	Organizing Committee Jane Heffernan, Neal Madras, Seyed Moghadas, Jianhong Wu (contact person) , Huaiping Zhu Mprime Centre for Disease Modelling at York University
	The classes will all be held at the Keele campus (4700 Keele St.), Building #39 on all days except Thursday, May 23rd which will be held at the Fields Institute, 222 College St. (Map)

Overview

The summer school school will include lectures on mathematical epidemiology, and one of the most important aspects will be projects for groups of 4–6 students, mixing scientific backgrounds and levels of experience, and focusing on real-world problems around which students develop and analyze models. It will also incorporate several lectures on public-health topics with focus on those relevant to other events of MPE2013 such as global spread, Indigenous populations health, vector-borne diseases and integration of surveillance, statistical data analysis and dynamical modelling and simulations.

The goals of the Summer School are to encourage more developing scientists to become interested in this field and to encourage communication between mathematical modellers and public health scientists and epidemiologists who have been historically unaware of the uses of mathematical modeling.

Lecture notes of the summer school will be available to those admitted and confirmed students before the School. A set of notes, prepared by Professor Fred Brauer, is posted on line at the Centre for Disease Modelling (CDM) webpage http://www.cdm.yorku.ca/rev2.pdf. These notes by Professor Brauer are intended for students or workers in biological sciences, epidemiology or public health who may have learned elementary calculus and differential equations, possibly in the distant past and possibly in a form that did not convince them that mathematics could be useful in their chosen field. We have tried to present some basic mathematics to make it possible for "calculus victims" to become " calculus users" in biology and epidemiology. Professor Brauer will be available to provide tutorial on May 18th, 2013.

Accomodation at York University

Students will be accommodated at York's student residences during their stay and more information will follow. Students can also choose to stay at the Executive Learning Centre, see http://elc.schulich.yorku.ca/SSB-Extra/elc.nsf/docs/Guests.

The School is designed for students coming from mixed backgrounds. We anticipate graduate students in epidemiology and public health, medical residents and graduate students in interdisciplinary sciences programs, in addition to graduate students in computational, mathematical and statistical sciences.

Course instructors and public lecture speakers include:
Linda J. S. Allen (Texas Tech) Julien Arino (Manitoba) Fred Brauer (British Columbia) Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State) Odo Diekmann (Utrecht) David Fisman (Toronto) Jane Heffernan (York) Ying-Hen Hsieh (China Medical University)	Mirjam Kretzschmar (University Medical Centre Utrechtl) Neal Madras (York Univeristy) Eduardo Massad (University of Sao Paulo) Seyed M. Moghadas (York), Beate Sander (Public Health Ontario) Pauline van den Driessche (Victoria) James Watmough (New Brunswick) Ping Yan (Public Health Agency of Canada) Huaiping Zhu (York)

Public Lectures

May 19, 2013 Eduardo Massad Professor of Medical Informatics, University of Sao Paulo The Analytic Philosophy of Mathematical Epidemiology 3:30 – 4:30 pm, Room 0006 TEL Building, York University	May 23, 2013 Mirjam Kretzschmar Chief Science Officer, RVIM and Professor, Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht Modelling STI and HIV transmission using pair formation models 9:00 – 10:00 am, Room BA 1190 Bahen Centre (map to Bahen) The Fields Institute (222 College St., Toronto)	May 26, 2013 Carlos Castillo-Chavez Regents Professor and Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor, Arizona State University Public Security Infectious Diseases and Public Health: Challenges in Emergent and Re-Emergent Diseases 10:00 – 11:30 am, Room 0006 TEL Building

Registration
Fees: Faculty/Researcher: $600, Students $100.

Outline of the draft program

The program consists of:

1. coordinated sequences of lectures to cover the basic concepts and techniques in disease modelling;

2. public lectures for detailed case studies of specific diseases and public health issues. These lectures are indeed for the general public, specially for those not necessarily specialized in the field, so students of the summer school can learn how to communicate mathematical results effectively with the public;

3. pre-assigned student group projects, identified in advance with partner organizations;

4. student presentations.

Tentative Schedule (check with www.cdm.yorku.ca for updated information)

May 19: Introduction to the school; Basic epidemiology; Basic deterministic SIR and SIS models; Simple case study.
Reception, plus each student gives a short presentation of their research work and interests.

May 20: Stochastic models; Calculation of the basic reproduction number. Presentation of projects, Tour of labs and software.

May 21: Metapopulation models; Network models.
Form groups and discuss projects.

May 22: Parameter estimation; Statistics and public health data.
Group projects.

May 23: Public lectures; Structured population models for infectious diseases.
Tour of the Fields Institute.

May 24: Case study: agent-based simulation and influenza;
Case-study: disease spread and global travel.
Group project preliminary presentation, group discussions.

May 25: Cost-effectiveness analysis;
Public lecture;
Group discussions.

May 26: Case-study: Vector-borne disease modeling;
Introduction to in-host modeling;
Public lecture

May 27: Group presentations.

Participants as of May 10, 2013

	Full Name	University/Affiliation
	Adebayo, Olasehinde	Federal University of Technology Akure
	Almocera, Alexis Erich	University of the Philippines
	Althubyani, Mohammed	College of Physical and Engineering Science, University of Guelph
	Arruda, Andreia	University of Guelph
	Asaduzzaman, S M	University of Victoria
	Atique, Suleman	COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,Islamabad
	Awad, Enas
	Balendran, Prathayana	York University
	Bittles, Tara
	Champredon, David	McMaster University
	Chen, Longbin	York University
	Cheuk, Eve	National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases
	Clamer, Valentina	University of Trento
	de Graaf, Willem Frederik	Utrecht University
	DePiero, Regene	University of Wyoming
	Donato, Lorrianne	York University
	Dorratoltaj, Narges	Virginia Tech
	Dutta, Tripti	York University
	Fagerstrom, Emily	State University of New York at Buffalo
	Falzon, Laura	Ontario Veterinary College
	Fang, Jian	York University
	Farris, Rachel	University of Wyoming
	Fortin, Marie-Josée	University of Toronto
	Haroon, Humaira	York University
	Harpur, Brock	York University
	Hirji, Mustafa	University of Toronto
	Huang, Longhua	York University
	Hughes, Josie	University of Toronto
	Jaberi-Douraki, Majid	McGill University
	Jelveh, Nazli	Simon Fraser University
	Kamran Habibkhani, Hootan	University of Toronto
	Keegan, Lindsay	McMaster University
	Khajanchi, Subhas
	Khan, Maryam	Northeastern Illinois University
	Khan, Maryam	University of Szeged
	Konini, Angjelina	York University
	Konini, Silva	York University
	Kuhajda, David	University of Akron
	Lachowsky, Nathan	University of Guelph
	Lemos-Costa, Paula	Bioscience Institute - University of Sao Paulo
	Leung, KaYin	Utrecht University
	Li, Xuan
	Liao, Laura	University of British Columbia
	Limbu, Chandra	York University
	Magpantay, Felicia Maria G.	York University
	Marinelli, Alessio	University of Trento
	Meadows, Shannon	University of Guelph
	Moschini, Pamela	University of Trento
	Munganga, Justin MW	University of South Africa
	Munther, Daniel	York University
	Murthy, Srinivas	Hospital for Sick Children
	Nah, Kyeongah	Bolyai Institute
	Niyukuri, Fidele	Université de Montréal
	Norton, Jacob	North Carolina State University
	Numfor, Eric	University of Tennessee, Knoxville
	Pal, Samares	University of Kalyani
	Pieper, Laura	University of Guelph
	Plazzotta, Giacomo	Imperial College London
	Pritsker, Asya	Pennsylvania State University
	Rahman, Ashrafur	University of Western Ontario
	Rilkoff, Heather
	Rudnick, Wallis	University of Toronto
	Saksida, Sonja	BC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences
	Samarasinghe, Chathuri	Oakland University
	Schultz, Lance	University of Guelph
	Schwandt, Michael	University of Toronto
	Sharmin, Sifat	Australian National University
	Shu, Hongying	University of New Brunswick
	Sigdel, Ram	Wilfrid Laurier University
	Singh Kohli, Ikjyot
	Sriskandarajah, Sujanthan
	Teslya, Alexandra	McMaster University
	Thi Tu, Hong Anh	University of Toronto
	Tupper-Ring, Laura	Simon Fraser University
	van den Hoogen, Josée	St. Francis Xavier University
	Varughese, Betsy	University of Alberta
	Watts, Alexander	University of Toronto
	Westers, Trisha	University of Guelph, Ontario Veterinary College
	Wong, Kester	Nanyang Technological University/ National Institute of Education
	Wu, Xiaotian	Western University
	Xiao, Yanyu	York University
	Yu, Don	York University