Computation & Society Initiative to Host Virtual Series on Covid Modeling
The Computation and Society Initiative will host a virtual on-going series of discussions with experts and leaders to share their perspectives on some of the key challenges facing society and whose solutions are likely to involve a novel synthesis of ideas and innovations from disciplines and schools including computer science, data science, social sciences, humanities, public health, business, and law.
The first conversation will be with Professor Ed Kaplan (SOM, Public Health, Engineering), an expert on the spread and control of infectious disease, to discuss his perspective on COVID and his recent work serving as a modeling expert on a range of projects supporting the university, Yale New Haven Hospital, and the state. Problems have included crowd-capping, hospital surge planning, timing decisions (when to stop and when to re-start), and scenario analyses to assess the impacts of alternative interventions, among other applications.
The Series schedule:
- Ed Kaplan, William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research, Professor of Public Health & Professor of Engineering
Date & Time: April 7, 2020, 4-5 pm
Event details including Zoom link:
https://computationsociety.yale.edu/event/coffee-break-ed-kaplan-yale - Nicholas Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Internal Medicine & Biomedical Engineering
Date & Time: April 16, 2020, 2-3 pm
Event details including Zoom link:
https://computationsociety.yale.edu/event/coffee-break-nicholas-christakis-yale - K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India and Distinguished Professor and former Director of The National Centre for Biological Sciences
Event details: April 22, 2020, 1-2 pm ZOOM LINK
These Coffee Breaks are intended to be widely accessible. Since these will be virtual, we have a lot of room and the event is open to the public.