Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the University has instruction to cancel all in-person events through the Spring semester to adhere to city and state orders limiting public gatherings. Events still running must now take place Online— listed events will include a link in which one may access the Online webspace:

To view Dr. Farkas’s talk, enter his Online chatroom via Microsoft Teams— it will open at 3:00pm on Friday, February 19th, 2021.

CORRECTION THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD AT 3:00PM ON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19TH, 2021 NOT 2:00PM AS PREVIOUSLY STATED. 

Reproduction Numbers and Functions in Structured Populations

Dr. Jozsef Farkas
Reader for Computing Science and Mathematics
University of Sterling

“The year of 2020 has brought infectious disease dynamics rather close to our doorsteps in an unprecedented and unfortunate fashion. Many of us have heard about the magical number R_0; although it might be difficult to see what it really has to to do with one’s everyday life. In this talk I am going to focus on this object in the context of, the much less harmful, structured population dynamics.”

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