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Abstract:
Infectious diseases are mobile creatures. Due to migration and transportation, infectious diseases can spread over very large distances in relatively short periods of time. As a consequence, this also allows for more contact between humans and animals
globally, also allowing for greater chances in the evolution of more virulent strains. This special session aims to address recent advances of differential equations and dynamical systems with applications in the areas of spatio-temporal spread of epidemics, pandemic influenza, vector-borne diseases, immuno-epidemiology, and other problems in epidemiology. We will bring together researchers in these fields from around the world, to stimulate major progress in mathematical modelling, analyses, and simulations of related biological systems, and to discuss and initiate policies for the mitigation of disease movement locally and globally. The session provides a unique opportunity for researchers to present their recent results, to interact and exchange scientific ideas, and to collaborate with one another in a productive and sustained way.
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