At the ECMI2021 conference, we had two other mini-symposia that specifically addressed the issue of COVID-19. Due to the great public interest, we also provide recordings here that are published on the ECMI Youtube channel. MS14: Modelling and Optimization in Epidemiology (Karunia Putra Wijaya) MS15: Mathematical Innovations for Mastering the […]
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ECMI2021 is now just over and it’s time to remind ourselves of a few highlights. The mini-symposium by Katerina Kaouri (Cardiff University) and Ian Griffiths (University of Oxford) on “Modelling COVID-19 Transmission in Indoor Spaces” can now be viewed on the ECMI YouTube channel: Dimitris Drikakis, “Present and Future of […]
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Tomorrow the 21th ECMI conference will start. This event will be held as an online conference hosted by the University of Wuppertal from April 13th to April 15th 2021, see the conference webpage. The biennial ECMI conference with more than 350 participants includes 11 plenary lectures, an Anile prize lecture, […]
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In today’s world, data in graph and tabular form are being generated at astonishing rates, with algorithms for machine learning (ML) and data mining (DM) applied to such data establishing themselves as drivers of modern society. The field of graph embedding is concerned with bridging the “two worlds” of graph […]
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Dear colleagues, friends, authors and readers of ECMI blog, The year 2020 is coming to an end. This has been a challenging year for each individual, but also for ECMI as a whole. Like many of you, we quickly had to find ways of adapting to the new reality. Shortly […]
Read moreFor more than a decade data mining, including machine learning has been an active topic of research and teaching at the Mathematical Institute at the Eötvös Loránd University with the objective of keeping up a good balance of mathematical and engineering approach. In recent years it was a good base […]
Read moreResearch on mathematical modelling of infectious diseases has been carried out at the Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged for already 12 years. Earlier topics studied by the research group include strategies for influenza vaccination, the impact of mandatory varicella vaccination, the risk of measles outbreaks during the 2012 […]
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Current farming practices require a uniform application of pesticides in order to protect crop plants from pest and disease. These treatments are typically repeated at regular time intervals. However, it is well known that several pests and diseases exhibit an uneven spatial distribution, with typical patch structures evolving around localized […]
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The outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemics in early 2020 has caused an unprecedented effort of the scientific community to produce models that could monitor and predict the evolution of the epidemics in a reliable way, also to advice governments to take actions which could mitigate the burden of hospitals to […]
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When the Covid19-Pandemic started in early 2020, Germany reacted with strict, acute nationwide measures that aimed at minimizing infection risk within the population. These included closing possible meeting locations such as schools, non-essential shops, playgrounds, restaurants and the like. Now that the numbers have declined, the government was and is faced with the dilemma of balancing citizens’ freedom rights against the risk of a new wave of infection. With smaller, but heterogeneously distributed outbreaks, local health authorities and politicians are now responsible for deciding on the degree of relaxation of protective measures in their administrative districts. There are currently numerous publications and pre-publications (cf. Flaxman, 2020) in which scientists analyze the current infection situation and attempt to predict the further course of the pandemic. Nevertheless, it cannot be expected that a district administrator or the head of the local health department will have the time and training to apply the study results, which were prepared for specific countries, regions or cities, to the situation in his or her district.
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