Clinic Schedule

Daily overview

This is an archived version of the schedule from the DAIDD 2020 clinic.

Sunday

Interactive session 1a

Interactive session 1b

Individual session 1

Please complete the following between the end of Sunday’s interactive session and the beginning of Monday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 21:00 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 10:00 Tea with African Faculty

Monday

Interactive session 2a

ICI3D::dynamicalFever()

Interactive session 2b

  • 18:30-19:00 Discussion: Dynamical Fever (Jim Scott)
  • 19:00-20:30 Small group session: research questions for modeling projects (All faculty)

Individual session 2

Please complete the following between the end of Monday’s interactive session and the beginning of Tuesday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 21:00 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 10:00 Tea with African Faculty

Tuesday

Interactive session 3a

Interactive session 3b

  • 18:30-19:00 Exercise: Simple individual-based models (Carl Pearson)
    • To get started, run the following command at the R Studio command line (after installing the ICI3D package):
ICI3D::reedFrost()
  • 19:00-20:30 Exercise: Creating a model world to address a research question (Juliet Pulliam)

Individual session 3

Please complete the following between the end of Tuesday’s interactive session and the beginning of Wednesday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 23:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 10:00 Tea with African Faculty

Wednesday

Interactive session 4a

  • 15:30-15:45 Daily recap (Zinhle Mthombothi)
  • 15:45-16:00 Summary and discussion: Stochastic simulation models (Becky Borchering)
  • 16:00-17:30 Small-group session: matching models to questions (All faculty)

Interactive session 4b

  • 18:30-18:45 Summary and discussion: Impact of contact patterns, consequences of heterogeneity, and modeling options (Jonathan Dushoff)
  • 18:45-19:30 Tutorial: Heterogeneity in disease emergence (Jonathan Dushoff, Carl Pearson, Zinhle Mthombothi)
    • To get started, run the following command at the R Studio command line (after installing the ICI3D package):
ICI3D::heterogeneityTutorial()

Individual session 4

Please complete the following between the end of Wednesday’s interactive session and the beginning of Thursday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 23:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 12:00 Tea with African Faculty

Thursday

Interactive session 5a

  • 15:30-15:50 Regroup after feedback (Juliet Pulliam)
  • 15:50-16:05 Daily recap (Carl Pearson)
  • 16:05-16:20 Summary and discussion: Models and data: introduction to model fitting (Jim Scott)
  • 16:20-17:30 Writing exercise: description of proposed model and assumptions (Zinhle Mthombothi)

Interactive session 5b

  • 18:30-20:00 Tutorial: Model fitting (John Hargrove)
    • To get started, run the following command at the R Studio command line (after installing the ICI3D package):
ICI3D::hivTutorial()

Individual session 5

Please complete the following between the end of Thursday’s interactive session and the beginning of Friday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 23:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 12:00 Tea with African Faculty

Friday

Interactive session 6a

  • 15:30-15:45 Daily recap (John Hargrove)
  • 15:45-16:00 Summary and discussion: Model evaluation and comparison (Jonathan Dushoff)
  • 16:00-17:30 Live lecture: Use of models in public health decision-making (Faculty research presentation) - Now with more COVID! (Carl Pearson)

Interactive session 6b

  • 18:30-19:00 Live lecture: Model-based inference and the bigger picture (Jonathan Dushoff)
  • 19:00-19:30 Review and Discussion (Moderator: John Hargrove)
  • 19:30-20:30 Small group session: planning your approach (All faculty)

Individual session 6

Please complete the following between the end of Friday’s interactive session and the beginning of Saturday’s interactive session.

Special session: 21:30-22:30

  • One-on-one mentoring sessions with Borchering, Dushoff, and Scott

Reminder:

  • 23:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 12:00 Tea with African Faculty

Saturday

Individual session 7

Special session: 11:00-12:30

  • One-on-one mentoring sessions with Hargrove, Mthombothi, Pearson, and Pulliam

Interactive session 7a

Interactive session 7b