Transmission of respiratory diseases

Speaker: Prof. Lydia Bourouiba, The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, MIT Lydia Bourouiba is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she founded and directs the Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory. Her research leverages advanced fluid dynamics experiments at various scales, biophysics, applied mathematics to elucidate interfacial flow and fluid fragmentation […]

Nonidentifiability in data-driven parameter estimation

Speaker: Dr. Michael Li Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta Michael Li is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alberta. His research interests/expertise are in the theory/applications of mathematical modeling of infectious diseases in general, and of HIV, influenza and TB in particular, and modeling of viral-immune response dynamics to viral infections including […]

What models can and cannot predict about the current COVID-19 pandemic

Speaker: Dr. Mac Hyman, Department of Mathematics, Tulane University Dr. Hyman’s expertise is in developing and using mathematical models to forecast the spread of infectious disease and the relative impact of different possible mitigation efforts on this spread. He has over 250 research publications, most on modeling the transmission of infectious diseases, and edited ten […]