NDSSL Educational and Training Programs: Upcoming
Simulation Assisted Reasoning for Public Health Epidemiology
(VBI Summer Institute, June 16-27, 2008)
Background:
Simulations are used to better understand a wide range of complex
phenomenon, ranging from urban transport planning to markets and
global warming. In this two week workshop, participants experience a
comprehensive program showcasing this scientific method in the context
of computational epidemiology. The lecture series focuses on the
entire range of topics required to understand such simulations and how
they are used. Specific topics include public health decision making,
network epidemiology, discrete dynamical systems, algorithms,
validation and verification. Participants will attend lectures describing
the background and the state of the art material in this exciting
field. Problem solving sessions with computations and hands-on
experience running actual simulations are also included.Objectives: Learn about modeling, simulation as a scientific method, awareness of limitations and assumptions, and be able to critically assess outcomes.
Who should attend Senior undergraduate students with strong background in mathematics and computation; graduate students.
- Instructors: Stephen Eubank (seubank@vbi.vt.edu) and Henning S. Mortveit (hmortvei@vbi.vt.edu).
- Registration fee: $235
- For registration please visit http://www.cpe.vt.edu/reg/sarphe/
- Lodging: A block of air-conditioned dormitory rooms has been reserved on campus for the rate of $39.00 + tax per person, per night. Participants are responsible for making their own lodging reservations at http://www.online.studentprograms.vt.edu/conferences/. For more information about lodging, please call (540) 231-5721.
NDSSL Educational and Training Programs: Previous
Complexity in Real-World Systems & Their Simulations
This EXYSTENCE school was a two-week intense workshop organised by Christopher Barrett, from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. It was done in collaboration with Prof. Jeff Johnson (Open University, UK) and ONCE-CS who created an online course for a wider audience of students. (Available here.) The course was funded by the European Complex Systems Network of Excellence Exystence and the ISI (Institute for Scientific Interchange), and it was held at Villa Gualino in Torino, Italy.The course had two parts: a practical laboratory in the first week and a series of lectures and panel discussions in the second week. The lecturers included Chris Barrett, Madhav Marathe, Keith Bisset, Stephen Eubank, Luc Steels, David Lightfoot, Peter Schuster, Henning Mortveit, Jeffrey Johnson, George Rzevski, Peter Allen, Alan Penn, Vladimir Batagelj.