| Start Date: | 11/23/2015 | Start Time: | 11:00 AM |
| End Date: | 11/23/2015 | End Time: | 12:30 PM |
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Event Description
CCI Special Lecture: Data, Computers & Animal Epidemics with Chris Rorres
Lecturer in Epidemiology, The University of Pennsylvania
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Drexel University
Date: Monday, November 23, 2015
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Drexel University, University Crossings, Room 153, 3175 JFK Blvd., Philadelphia, PA
No RSVP is required for this event.
Abstract
Animal epidemics, such as those of foot-and-mouth disease and infectious salmon anemia, have the potential of causing enormous economic losses, as evidenced by the devastating 2001 foot-and-mouth epidemic in the United Kingdom. In addition, some animal epidemics — avian influenza for example — pose the threat of being continued in human populations.
Today, with the availability of enormous computing power and precise global positioning systems, more accurate models of animal epidemics are being developed. This talk will discuss research undertaken at The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine emphasizing the use of data collection, data synthesis, and computer simulations to explore effective vaccination and culling policies to prevent and contain animal epidemics.
About the Speaker
Chris Rorres is a Lecturer in Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Drexel University, where he was a faculty member for 33 years. For 14 years beginning in 2001, he conducted research on animal epidemics at Penn Vet's New Bolton Center. Additionally, Dr. Rorres is a lifelong scholar of Archimedes; his educational website on Archimedes (established in 1995) receives more than 100,000 hits per year. His textbook, Elementary Linear Algebra (Wiley, 2014), coauthored with Howard Anton, is now in its 11th edition. Dr. Rorres earned his BS in Physics from Drexel University and his PhD in Mathematics from New York University. |
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Location:
Drexel University
University Crossings
Room 153, 3175 JFK Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA |
Audience:
Undergraduate StudentsGraduate StudentsFacultyStaffAlumni |
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