Review paper from the 2013 and 2014 Newton Institute Infectious Disease Dynamics Workshop appears in Science. Heesterbeek et al. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4339

Alex Perkins’ RAPIDD workshop on modeling control measures aimed at mosquito-borne diseases, University of Notre Dame, March 12-13.

Potential biomath students visiting us at NC State.

At the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio Texas. Great to meet a number of potential future members of the biomath grad program and the mathematical biology/parameter estimation research training group (RTG)! Particularly impressed by the MAA undergraduate research poster session and the great work done by the many presenters there.

White House Dengue Modeling Meeting, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington DC.

Meeting of Tom Scott’s NIH P01 dengue project in Iquitos, Peru.

Sponsored by our RTG grant, we are running a workshop on Parameter Estimation for Biological Models, at NC State University, August 8th-11th, 2014. Workshop web page.

I am visiting Roumen Anguelov, Salisu Garba and Jean Lubuma in the Mathematics Department of the University of Pretoria. I shall give two talks, one on genetic control strategies against mosquito-borne infections and a second on waiting time distributions (non-exponential distributions of latent and infectious periods) in models for disease transmission.

Visiting the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge for a workshop on Infectious Disease Dynamics. This is a follow-up meeting to a workshop held August/September 2013 that I attended.