The Interdisciplinary Disease Ecology Across Scales (IDEAS) Program (http://ideas.ecology.uga.edu/index.html ), in conjunction with The Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases (http://ceid.uga.edu/), will host a week-long workshop on the modeling of infectious diseases. Instruction will focus on framing biological questions as mathematical models, scientific programming and numerical methods for analysis, and interpretation. The workshop will be held at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, USA.
Our workshop is designed to introduce students and health professionals to the emerging field of quantitative modeling as it relates to the dynamics of infectious diseases. Upon completion, attendees should be able to: Write code in R to perform research analysis, create reproducible workflows, extend understanding through independent study using web-based resources, express hypotheses as mathematical models, and manipulate and analyze diverse data types. The workshop will consist of two modules, and participants can choose one or both modules. Module 1: Introduction to Scientific Programming Dates: Monday, May 15-Tuesday, May 16 from 8:00-5:00, and Wednesday, May 17 from 8:00-12:00 Instructors: John Drake and Andrew Park Module 2: Modeling Infectious Diseases Dates: Wednesday, May 17 from 1:00-5:00, and Thursday, May 18-Friday, May 19 from 8:00-5:00 Instructors: John Drake and Pej Rohani For more information on the workshops or to register, please visit http://ideas.ecology.uga.edu/computational-summer-workshop.html
