Details

Two courses will be offered:

Course 1. Mathematical epidemiology

Course 2. Data, models, and decision support.

Participants will take both courses and receive a grade and certificate of completion that may be used to transfer credit to the home institution. The intended audience for the courses are math graduate students who would like to take these courses for credit. The course is also suitable for undergraduates with an interest in mathematical biology (and who have completed the relevant prerequisite coursework), and advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, who are interested in working collaboratively on an innovative project to advance infectious disease modelling.

Applicants should have completed undergraduate courses in mathematical modelling, dynamical systems, statistics, and be able to code in R and/or python.

From August 20 to 30, 7 hours of work are planned to occur at Bonne Bay Marine Station. Participants should capitalize on being together in one location to work efficiently on projects. Due to the compressed schedule, participants will be asked to complete a problem set prior to arrival on August 19.

Instructors

Dr. Amy Hurford, Memorial University (Organizer, email: ahurford@mun.ca)
Dr. Julien Arino, University of Manitoba
Dr. Amy Greer, University of Guelph
Dr. Jane Heffernan, York University
Dr. James Watmough, University of New Brunswick

Guest lecturers

Dr. Bouchra Nasri, Universite de Montreal
Dr. Steve Walker, McMaster University
Dr. Brenda Wilson, Memorial University
Dr. Edward Thommes, Sanofi Pasteur