Colloquium speaker, Chris Myers (Cornell) today at 4pm

[Patterson, Robin L.]

Please join us for the Physics Colloquium today, at 4:00 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception in the Atrium at 3:45PM. Details concerning the talk are as follows:

Speaker:        Chris Myers (Cornell)
Date:              Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Time:              4:00 PM
Place:             1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room
Title:               Infectious Disease Dynamics Across Populations, Networks, Landscapes and Other Worlds

Abstract:  The spread of infectious diseases through populations is a complex problem with crucial implications for public health, ecosystem stability, and food security, made ever more complicated in an increasingly connected world.  Mathematical and computational models of infectious disease dynamics have long played a key role in analyzing and predicting outbreak dynamics, and many techniques from dynamical systems theory and statistical physics have been used to investigate such phenomena.  Much research in recent years has sought to integrate into disease models more detailed and realistic descriptions of heterogeneities associated with host contact networks, transmission rates, and population structure.  I will describe some of our recent work in addressing such questions, characterizing critical phenomena in simple models of zoonotic infections that spill over from animal to human populations, probing the role of contact network topology on infection dynamics, and investigating the long-distance spread of diseases on geographic landscapes.

The website for the colloquium is https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule.



Robin
[The Ohio State University]
Robin Patterson
Program Coordinator
Department of Physics
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