Focus Session: Methods of Statistical Physics in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology

Presentations

• Statistical physics applied to ecology

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 23, 2005, 5:00 AM – March 23, 2005, 5:36 AM

  Authors

  • Jayanth R. Banavar

    • Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
    • Penn State
    • Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802 USA

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• Phase Transitions and Fluctuations in Lattice Predator-Prey Models with Site Restrictions

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 5:36 AM – March 23, 2005, 5:48 AM

  Authors

  • Mauro Mobilia

  • Ivan Georgiev

  • Uwe Taeuber

    • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State

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• Absorbing multicultural states in the Axelrod model

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 5:48 AM – March 23, 2005, 6:00 AM

  Authors

  • Federico Vazquez

    • CNLS-LANL and Boston U.

  • Sidney Redner

    • CNLS-LANL and Boston U.

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• Nucleation and Spread of an Invasive Allele

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 6:00 AM – March 23, 2005, 6:12 AM

  Authors

  • Gyorgy Korniss

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • RPI

  • Joseph Yasi

    • Rensselaer

  • Thomas Caraco

    • SUNY at Albany

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• Coupling ecological and evolutionary dynamics in a stochastic model of multiple-gene interactions

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 6:12 AM – March 23, 2005, 6:24 AM

  Authors

  • Ralph DeSimone

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University

  • Ankana Boondirek

    • Department of Applied Mathematics, Mahidol University, Bangkok

  • Timothy Newman

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University

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• Extinction Times for Birth-Death Processes: Continuum Asymptotics and the failure of the Fokker-Planck Approximation

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 6:24 AM – March 23, 2005, 6:36 AM

  Authors

  • Charles R. Doering

  • Khachik V. Sargsyan

  • Leonard M. Sander

    • University of Michigan

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• Infectious diseases in space and time: noise and nonlinearity in epidemiological dynamics

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 23, 2005, 6:36 AM – March 23, 2005, 7:12 AM

  Authors

  • Bryan Grenfell

    • University of Cambridge/Penn State

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• Pandemic Diseases and the Aviation Network – SARS, a case study

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 7:12 AM – March 23, 2005, 7:24 AM

  Authors

  • Lars Hufnagel

    • KITP, Santa Barbara, CA
    • KITP, Santa Barbara

  • Dirk Brockmann

    • MPI for Dynamics and Selforganization
    • Max Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization, G\"ottingen, Germany

  • Theo Geisel

    • MPI for Dynamics and Selforganization
    • Max Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization, G\"ottingen, Germany

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• Respiratory-borne Disease Outbreaks in Populations: Contact Networks and the Spread of Disease

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 7:24 AM – March 23, 2005, 7:36 AM

  Authors

  • Babak Pourbohloul

    • University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control

  • Lauren A. Meyers

    • Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin

  • Mark E.J. Newman

    • Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan

  • Danuta M. Skowronski

  • Robert C. Brunham

    • University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control

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• Dynamical Epidemic Suppression Using Stochastic Prediction and Control

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 7:36 AM – March 23, 2005, 7:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ira Schwartz

    • Naval Research Laboratory
    • NRL

  • Lora Billings

    • Montclair State University

  • Erik Bollt

    • Clarkson University

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• Chaotic desynchronization of multistrain diseases

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 7:48 AM – March 23, 2005, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Leah Shaw

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Lora Billings

    • Montclair State University

  • Marie McCrary

    • Montclair State University

  • Ira Schwartz

    • Naval Research Laboratory
    • NRL

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