Events

Upcoming

In May, I will be at teaching at a summer school for Mathematics for Biological Networks at the University of Victoria, sponsored by PIMS and MITACS.

2010

In March, I attended a working group meeting of the RAPIDD group on modeling influenza immune landscapes at Princeton University.

In February, I participated in a working group meeting on modeling livestock movement in the U.S. at NimBios.

In January, I attended the RAPIDD Meeting on Modeling of Movement for Vector-Borne Diseases at Resources for the Future.

In January, I spoke at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

2009

In December, I attended and spoke at the Epidemics-2 Conference in Athens, Greece.

In August, I attended the University of San Diego IGCC Public Policy and Biological Threats Program.

In July, I spent some time in the U.K. at the University of Liverpool Vet School and the Cambridge University Vet School.

In June, I attended the RAPIDD Meeting on Infectious Disease Dynamics Across Scales at the Harvard School of Public Health.

In June, I visited the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (FAZD) at Texas A&M University.

In May, I presented my work at the Department of Homeland Security's meeting of the Foreign Animal Disease Threats Subcommittee.

2008

In December, I attended and presented a poster at the Epidemics Conference.

In October, I gave an invited talk at the international workshop for Facing the Challenges of Infectious Diseases at the ISI Foundation in Torino, Italy.

In August, I gave a seminar talk at the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at Virginia Tech.

In August, I attended the USDA APHIS Animal Disease Modeling Meeting in Fort Colllins, CO.

In June, I attended the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Annual Workshop.

In June, I joined CIDD at Penn State University as a postdoctoral researcher.

In April, I attended the Workshop on Model Hierarchies at Penn State University.

In January, I defended my thesis for a Phd in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin!

2007

In September, I gave an invited lecture at the Department of Epidemiology Microbial Diseases Lecture Series at the Yale School of Public Health.

At the beginning of August, I gave two talks at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) on the design of flu vaccination strategies using contact network epidemiology, and on patterns of herd immunity in networks.

In June, I participated in the DIMACS Advanced Studies Institute at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Muizenberg, South Africa.

At the end of May, I was at the International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2007).

In May, I attended a DIMACS working group meeting on the spatio-temporal dynamics of infectious disease spread in Edinburgh, Scotland, and spoke about homogeneous and network models in epidemiology.

In April, I attended a working group meeting at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University.

In April, I spoke at the University of Texas Mathematics Research Seminar for graduate students.

2006

In August, I presented a talk entitled "Contact Network Epidemiology and the Design of Influenza Vaccination Strategies" at the SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, held jointly with the SMB Annual Meeting, and was awarded the Best Paper in Epidemiology award by SIAM/RTI.

In July, I gave an invited talk at an Epidemiology minisymposium at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Boston. I also represented the UT SIAM Student Chapter and gave a talk on mathematical epidemiology at the student seminar.

In May, I defended my thesis proposal for the Computational and Applied Mathematics Program at the University of Texas, Austin.

In April, I spoke at the UT Department of Mathematics Biomathematics Seminar and discussed the use of percolation theory in epidemiology.

In January, I attended a workshop at DIMACS on the "Epidemiology and Evolution of Influenza"

2005

In July, I gave a talk titled "Modeling Control Stragies for Respiratory Borne Pathogens" at the European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, held jointly with the SMB Annual Meeting in Dresden, Germany.

In May, I attended the 3rd Annual Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Workshop & Conference at Colorado State University.

In April, I spoke at the MSRI workshop on Models of Real-World Random Networks.

In January, I participated in a working group meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on "Network Robustness to Evolving Agents."

2004

In July, I attended the NASA Symposium at the Kennedy Space Center, and got an up-close and personal tour of the launch pad!

In July, I presented a poster on "Community Structure in Epidemiological Networks" at the SMB Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor.

In June, I gave an invited talk at the Los Alamos Laboratory CCS Seminar on "Community Structure in Social Contact Networks."