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Networks: stochastic models for populations and epidemics

ICMS, Edinburgh, 12-16 September 2011

PROGRAMME

 

Monday 12 September

08.30 - 09.00

Registration

09.00 - 10.00

Denis Mollison (Heriot-Watt University)
Network models for epidemics

10.00 - 10.30

Coffee and tea (served in the Chapterhouse)

10.30 - 11.30

Alexander Holroyd (Microsoft Research)
Invariant matching

11.30 - 12.30

Maria Deijfen (Stockholm University)
Scale-free percolation

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch served in the Chapterhouse

14.00 - 15.00

Mathew Penrose (Univeristy of Bath)
Random geometric graphs

15.00 - 16.00

Valerie Isham (University College London)
Spread of information/infection on networks

16.00 - 16.30

Coffee and tea

16.30 - 17.30

Frank Ball (University of Nottingham)
Epidemics on random networks with household structure


Tuesday 13 September

09.00 - 09.45

Vlada Limic (Université de Provence)
Exchangable coalescents

09.45 - 10.30

Etienne Pardoux (Université de Provence)
Continuous limit of probabilistic models of population with interaction

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee and tea served in the Chapterhouse

11.00 - 12.30

Group session/Open problems

12.00 - 14.00

Lunch break

14.00 - 14.30

Ford, Ashley
Bipartite network models for epidemics

14.30 - 15.00

Jordan, Jonathan
Randomised reproducing graphs

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee and tea served in the Chapterhouse

16.00 - 16.45

Remco van der Hofstad (TU Eindhoven)
Hypercube percolation

16.45- 17.30

Peter Neal (University of Manchester)
Variance of the giant component of a random graph


Wednesday 14 September

09.00 - 09.45

Lorenzo Pellis (Imperial College London)
R_0 and other reproduction numbers for epidemic models with household structure

09.45 - 10.30

Pieter Trapman (Stockholm University)
SIR epidemics on random intersection graphs

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee and tea served in the Chapterhouse

11.00 - 11.30

Reinert, Gesine
The shortest distance in random multi-type intersection graphs

12.00 - 14.00

Lunch break

 

Knowledge Transfer Session

14.00 - 14.30

Tommi Asikainen (ECDC)
Presentation of ECDC, modelling networks and data availability

14.30 - 15.00

Piero Poletti (ECDC)
ECDC work on varicella vaccination modelling in EU/EEA/EFTA countries

15.00 - 15.30

Gianpaolo Scalia-Tomba (ECDC)
ECDC work on generation times in epidemic modelling

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee and tea served in the Chapterhouse

16.00 - 16.30

Ard van Sighem (ECDC)
ECDC work on estimating HIV prevalence in EU/EEA/EFTA countries

16.30 - 17.00

Ian Hall (HPA)
Building behavioural response effects into stochastic models for contingency planning

17.00 - 17.30

Iain Barrass (HPA)
Interpretation of large-scale stochastic epidemic models

17.30 - 18.30

Wine reception


Thursday 15 September

09.00 - 09.45

Damian Clancy (University of Liverpool)
The effects of population heterogeneities on spread of infection

09.45 - 10.30

Mirjam Kretzschmar (University Medical Centre Utrecht )
Dynamic pair formulation models

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee and tea served in the Chapterhouse

11.00 - 11.30

Amanda Turner (Lancaster University)
Planar random growth

11.30 - 12.30

Group discussion:      SIS and dynamic networks

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch break

14.00 - 15.30

Group discussion:     Games and genetics on networks

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee and tea served in the Chapterhouse

16.00 - 16.45

Theo Kypraios & Philip O'Neill (University of Nottingham)
Statistical inference for epidemics on networks

16.45 - 17.30

Boris Schmid (Utrecht University)
How does the sexual behaviour of individuals relate to commonly used sexual behaviour summary measures

19.00

Workshop dinner


Friday 16 September

09.00 - 09.45

Joel Miller (Harvard School of Public Health)
Edge-based compartmental models for epidemics on networks

09.45 - 10.30

Viet Chi Tran (Université Lille)
Large graph limit and Volz' equations for an SIR epidemic spreading on a configuration model graph

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee and tea served in the Chapterhouse

11.00 - 11.30

Tom Britton (Stockholm University)
Network modelling: future directions

11.30 - 12.30

Group discussion:      Directed v. undirected networks

 

End of workshop. Building open until 17.00