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DTEND:20111116T191500Z
LOCATION:TCC 301/302
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: The Intellectual Ventures Lab Epidemiological Modeling team develops mathematical models of disease transmission and software tools to assist planning of disease control and eradication campaigns. The objective is to deliver a software tool used by the public health community to ground disease campaign planning in model-driven insights. The software allows simulations on High Performance Clusters, exploration of alternate campaign designs, input data management and output analysis. The team focuses on four diseases - malaria, polio, HIV and TB - representing different disease transmission modes. Malaria and Polio will be presented to exemplify the power of complex computational models. =0A=0AOur approach aims to leverage Moore's Law gains to increase model potential. We use a Monte Carlo individual agent-based approach for running detailed, geographically-specific simulations on a multi-core cluster. This software will be freely released for academic research and humanitarian uses for developing world research.
SUMMARY:Modeling Infectious Disease Transmission: Eradicating Malaria and Other Diseases
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