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Modelling Treatment as Prevention - New Approaches to Combating the HIV EpidemicThursday, April 7, 2011 Dr. Krisztina Vasarhelyi, Interdisciplinary Modelling for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of HIV (IMPACT-HIV) This talk was part of the IRMACS Modelling Consortium Open House speakers series
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| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
The Last Three Years in the MoCSSy ProgramThursday, April 7, 2011 Dr. Vahid Dabbaghian, Modelling of Complex Social Systems (MoCSSy) Program.
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Can Mathematical Modelling Make Better Public Policy?Thursday, April 7, 2011 Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Rutherford, Complex Systems Modelling Group This talk was part of the IRMACS Modelling Consortium Open House speakers series. ...
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Reflections on the Verification and Validation of Computer SimulationsThursday, April 7, 2011 Dr. Eric Winsberg, Philosopher of Science, University of South Florida It is common practice in the simulation community to distinguish between verification and validation. Verification is said to be the process of...
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| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm |
Intelligent Decision Support for Marine Safety and Security OperationsThursday, April 7, 2011 Mr. Ali Khalili Araghi, winner of the Peter Borwein Annual Graduate Scholarship in Mathematics & Computational Modelling of Complex Systems With the increasing traffic in ports and its vulnerability to the illegal activities and threats, large volume surveillance has become a challenge...
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| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
6th Annual IRMACS Day - Welcome and IntroductionsThursday, April 7, 2011 by Dr. Veselin Jungic, IRMACS Centre Deputy Director, Dr. Mario Pinto, SFU Vice President Research, Dr. Arne Mooers, Biology & IRMACS Management Committee and Ms. Pam Borghardt, IRMACS Centre Managing Director. An overview of research conducted over the last six years at the IRMACS Centre.
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| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Sources of bias for estimators of gene-by-environment interaction from case-parent trio dataFriday, April 1, 2011 Brad McNeney Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, Simon Fraser University The case-parent trio design was popularized by the well-known transmission-disequilibrium test, which conditions on parental genotype information...
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| 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm |
Responding to the Climate Change ChallengeWednesday, March 30, 2011 Thomas Pedersen We now know the root causes of the global warming and ocean-acidification that are underway on our planet. These are no longer an issue of science...
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| 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm |
The Cloud Experiment at CERNWednesday, March 23, 2011 Jasper Kirkby Understanding the causes of climate change is one of the most important challenges facing science today. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Are Stock Markets Beauty Contests?Friday, March 18, 2011 Kenneth Kasa In 1936, Keynes drew an analogy between investing in the stock market and predicting the winner of a beauty contest, where the winner is the...
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| 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm |
The Role of Clouds and Water Vapor in Climate ChangeTuesday, March 15, 2011 David Randall I will begin with a brief primer on the physics of climate change, and how it is represented in climate models, and how the models are tested with...
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| 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm |
The Role of the Oceans in ClimateWednesday, March 9, 2011 Kevin Trenberth A description of the role of the various components of the climate system (the atmosphere, ocean, land and ice) in climate variability and change...
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| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Modelling the Expansion of the Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy for HIV, within Risk Behaviour EnvironmentFriday, March 4, 2011 Bojan Ramadanovic One of the key contributors to the spread of the HIV epidemic is the prevalence of risk behaviour, such as unprotected sexual contact and the...
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| 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm |
Climate Change and the Melting Polar Ice CapsWednesday, March 2, 2011 Kenneth M. Golden The dramatic decline of the summer Arctic sea ice pack is probably the most visible, large scale change on Earth's surface in recent years. Most...
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