[Drand] Special SU Matstat seminar: Mathematical modelling of infectious disease outbreaks

[Edvard Mörtsell]

Timely seminar this Wednesday at the math.department. / Edvard
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Hi all,

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, we will have a special Mathematical
Statistics seminar given by Tom Britton, this Wednesday at 15.15. The
talk will give an overview of mathematical models for the spread of
infectious diseases.

Note that the talk is in House 5, Room 15. Full details below.

Tony

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Date and Time: Wednesday March 4, 15.15 - 16.15.

Location: Kräftriket House 5, Room 15.

Speaker: Tom Britton (SU)

Title: Mathematical modelling of infectious disease outbreaks

Abstract:

Mathematical models for the spread of infectious diseases are used to:
better understand spreading mechanisms, determine if a big outbreak is
likely to occur and how big it will be, determine if a disease will
become endemic, and investigate how various preventive measures can
reduce spreading hopefully preventing a major pandemic outbreak or make
an endemic disease vanish. Making inference is harder than usual in that
the basic events, transmissions, are rarely observed but instead proxies
like onset of symptoms are recorded, and also by the fact that these
events are dependent rather than independent (as is usually the case).

In the talk I will give an overview of the area with particular focus on
emerging outbreaks, with illustrations on the current coronavirus outbreak.

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Edvard Mortsell
Stockholm University
Department of Physics
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46-8-55378535
Web: http://www.fysik.su.se/~edvard/
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