Speaker: Dr. Julia Gog (DAMTP)
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Time: 27/10/2014 20:30, drinks from 20:15

The use of mathematical systems for modelling the spread of infectious disease has been around for quite a while now. Mathematical biologists have developed a world of intricate models including things like distribution of household sizes, population flows such as commute to work, airline transportation networks, seasonal and climate factors and what everyone had for breakfast. So we know in glorious detail how a decent pandemic ought to spread, right? Thing is, no one told influenza what it was supposed to do.