Instructors
Prof. Joshua Weitz, Prof. James C. Gumbart, and the members of the 2020 QBioS PhD cohort (Lynn Jin, Ethan Wold, Leo Wood, Disheng Tang, Aradhya Rajanala, Aaron Pfennig, and Tucker Lancester).
Plenary Lecturers:
Prof. Sarah Cobey, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago
Prof. Sam Scarpino, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
All times are given in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Monday, May 17
| 8:45 | Welcome to the Workshop – Prof. Joshua Weitz, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech & Prof. James C. Gumbart, School of Physics, Georgia Tech |
| 9:00 | Plenary Lecture – Modeling COVID-19: what went wrong and right, and what’s next – Prof. Sarah Cobey, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago |
| 10:00 | Q&A |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:30 | Track 1: Introduction to programming |
| Track 2: Journal club discussion for more advanced programmers | |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 | Hands-on Modeling Epidemics I: Deterministic Models |
| 15:00 | Wrap-up day 1 |
Tuesday, May 18
| 9:00 | Lecture: Stochastic Modeling of Epidemics – Prof. Joshua Weitz, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech |
| 10:00 | Q&A |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:30 | Hands-on Modeling Epidemics II: Stochastic Models |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 | Translating models into interactive Dashboards – Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory (ABiL) |
| 15:00 | Survey (Lottery among all participants) |
| 15:15 | Break |
| 15:30 | Plenary Lecture – Network Science Theory and COVID-19 – Prof. Sam Scarpino, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University |
| 16:30 | Prize announcement of survey lottery |
| 16:45 | Closing thoughts |
| 17:00 | Workshop closes |
We thank the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for making this workshop possible and the Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory (ABiL) for organizing the dashboard session.
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