Workshop Programme
for period 20-24 November
Stochastic Computation for the Analysis of Ecological and Epidemiological Data
20-24 November
Timetable
| Monday 20 November | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Registration | SCB |
| 10:00-10:05 | Welcome address | SCB |
| Chair: ST Buckland | ||
| 10:05-11:00 | Frigessi, A (Norwegian Computing Center) | SCB |
| Investigating the spread of infectious salmon anemia in Atlantic salmon farming: a stochastic space-time model | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | O'Hara, RB (Helsinki) | SCB |
| Estimation of births deaths and immigration from mark-recapture data | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| Chair: A Frigessi | ||
| 14:00-15:15 | King, R (St Andrews) | SCB |
| Recent advances in statistical ecology using computationally intensive methods | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Buckland, ST (CREEM) | SCB |
| Embedding population dynamics models in inference | Sem 1 | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Welcome Wine Reception | SCB |
| Tuesday 21 November | ||
| Chair: E Arjas | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Thomas, L (St Andrews) | SCB |
| Use of Monte Carlo particle filters to fit and compare models for the dynamics of wild animal populations | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Edwards, A (British Antarctic Survey) | SCB |
| Do wandering albatrosses really perform Levy flights when foraging? | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | Arjas, E (Helsinki) | SCB |
| Covariate information in complex event history data - some thoughts arising from a case study | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| Chair: L Thomas | ||
| 14:00-15:15 | Renshaw, E (Strathclyde) | SCB |
| A general space-time growth-interaction process for inferring and developing structure from partial observations | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Poster session | SCB |
| Wednesday 22 November | ||
| Chair: G Gibson | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Gilligan, C (Cambridge) | SCB |
| Parameter estimation for spatio-temporal models of botanical epidemics | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Kypraios, T (Nottingham) | SCB |
| Roubst MCMC algorithms for Bayesian inference in stochastic eipdemic models | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | Conlan, A (Cambridge) | SCB |
| The persistence of measles: from the schoolyard to sub-saharan Africa | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| Chair: PD O'Neill | ||
| 14:00-15:15 | Gibson, G (Heriot-Watt) | SCB |
| Bayesian experimental design with Stochastic epidemic models | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Mollison, D (Heriot-Watt) | SCB |
| Small worlds and giant epidemics | Sem 1 | |
| 20:00-18:00 | Conference at Trinity College (Old Kitchens) | SCB |
| Thursday 23 November | ||
| Chair: FG Ball | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Mutshinda Mwanza, C (Helsinki) | SCB |
| A probabilistic test of the neutral model | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Frost, S (UCSD) | SCB |
| Estimating mixing between subpopulations using respondent driven sampling | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | Hughes, G (Southampton) | SCB |
| Modeling tuberculosis in areas of high HIV prevalence | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| Chair: D Mollison | ||
| 14:00-15:15 | Ganesh, A (Cambridge) | SCB |
| Epidemics on graphs: thresholds and curing strategies | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Welch, D (Imperial) | SCB |
| Building and fitting models of host-virus interaction | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 24 November | ||
| Chair: D Clancy | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Wood, J (Cambridge) | SCB |
| Uses and abuses of stochastic models in veterinary epidemiology | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | O'Neill, PD (Nottingham) | SCB |
| Bayesian inference for structured population models given final outcome data | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | Snall, T (Swedish University) | SCB |
| Climate-driven spatial dynamics of plague among prairie dog colonies | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| Chair: E Renshaw | ||
| 14:00-15:15 | Ball, FG (Nottingham) | SCB |
| Statistical inference for epidemics among a population of households | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Clancy, D (Liverpool) | SCB |
| Exact Bayesian inference and model selection for some infection models | Sem 1 | |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |