Schedule for: 23w5151 - The Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Diseases: Progress and Next Steps
Beginning on Sunday, November 12 and ending Friday November 17, 2023
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).
| Sunday, November 12 | |
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| 16:00 - 17:30 | Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 21:30 |
Informal gathering ↓ INFORMAL MEET AND GREET IN PDC (BIRS LOUNGE) (Other (See Description)) |
| Monday, November 13 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | David Price: The CANMOD/EIDM Knowledge Graph (Online) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Kevin Brown: Association between Late Outbreak Identification and SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Mortality Among Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Michael Li: The need to evaluate existing data resources and knowledge gaps to support future needs for respiratory disease surveillance and modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Amy Hurford: How to do modelling to support regions implementing an elimination strategy during a pandemic (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Marie (Betsy) Varughese: The Decision Uncertainty Toolkit (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | David Champredon: Academic collaborations to improve wastewater-based modelling at PHAC (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Steve Walker: Demo of historical infectious disease data portal (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Evan Mitchell: Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths prevented by COVID-19 vaccines in Canada (TCPL 201) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Étienne Racine: Dynamic transmission model for COVID-19 vaccination policy evaluation (TCPL 201) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Junling Ma: Evaluating the effectiveness of contact tracing in Toronto during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (TCPL 201) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Jesse Shapiro: Transmission, adaptation, and within-host diversity of SARS-CoV-2 across animal species (TCPL 201) |
| 18:00 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:30 |
Informal gathering ↓ PDC 2ND FLOOR (BIRS LOUNGE) (Other (See Description)) |
| Tuesday, November 14 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Caroline Colijn: Surveillance roundtable (part 1) (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Kevin Brown: Surveillance roundtable (part 2) (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Nathaniel Osgood: Compositional Modeling: Applied Category Theory in Support of Mathematical & Computational Epidemiology (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Mikael Jagan: Estimating phenomenological epidemic models with mixed effects (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Steve Walker: Introduction to epidemic modelling with the `macpan2` R package (TCPL 202) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | Irena Papst: Hands on with `macpan2` and the historical infectious disease data portal (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:30 |
Informal gathering ↓ PDC 2ND FLOOR (BIRS LOUNGE) (Other (See Description)) |
| Wednesday, November 15 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Rebecca Claire Tyson: Opinion dynamics: Mechanisms for multiple epidemic waves (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Azadeh Aghaeeyan: Revealing the unseen: What portion of the Americans relied on others’ satisfaction when deciding to take the COVID-19 vaccination (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Jenna Mee: Investigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Vulnerable Population using Agent-Based Modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Caroline Wagner: Multi-Pathogen Agent-Based Models for Disease Surveillance and Mitigation (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Lisa Kanary: Assessing the Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID Prevalence Using A Predator-Prey Lotka-Volterra Model Approach (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Group Hike / Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, November 16 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Brian Gaas: Better modeling through chemistry: quantifying Covid vaccine hesitancy (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Sana Naderi: Calculating population genetic metrics from wastewater sequencing data to predict SARS-CoV-2 waves (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Ben Ashby: Antigenic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in immunocompromised hosts (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Michael Wolfson: Toward Support for Epidemic Preparedness via Digital Twin Data (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Lloyd Elliott: Four applications of statistics to COVID-19 modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Jonathan Dushoff: Approaches to modeling cross immunity (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jane Heffernan: Multiscale modelling of COVID-19 immunity (TCPL 201) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Rob Deardon: Bayesian behavioural change epidemic models (TCPL 201) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Madeline Ward: Bayesian epidemic models with dynamic adherence to protective behaviour adoption (TCPL 201) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Julien Arino: Introductions and the stochastic phase of an epidemic (TCPL 201) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | David Earn: Wrap up discussion (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:30 |
Informal gathering ↓ PDC 2ND FLOOR (BIRS LOUNGE) (Other (See Description)) |
| Friday, November 17 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Checkout by 11AM ↓ 5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM. (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
