Articles & Readings

Using Mathematical Modeling to Solve Contemporary Issues

Re-opening Schools during COVID-19

• COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry

• ODE - Mathematics: Preparing for 2020-2021 (see mathematics publications)

• ODE Guidance for Re-opening

• From Tents to Bus Rides: Social Distancing in School Reopening Plans

Predicting the Spread of COVID-19 and other Illnesses

• The simulations driving the world’s response to COVID-19

• Here’s How Computer Models Simulate the Future Spread of New Coronavirus

• The Promising Math Behind ‘Flattening the Curve’

• A Simulation of a COVID-19 Epidemic Based on a Deterministic SEIR Model

• Disease Detectives

• Young Epidemiology Scholars

Covid Data Sets

• https://rt.live/

• https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/oregon

• https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/

• https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/

• https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Monitoring People of Interest

• Mathematicians Boycott Predictive Policing

• 988 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in the Past Year

• Mapping Police Violence

• Police-Involved Shooting: A Curated Collection of Links

Responding to Climate Change

• How to Drive Fossil Fuels Out of the US Economy, Quickly

• Microsoft’s Astonishing Climate Change Goals, Explained

• The Entire World’s Carbon Emissions will Finally be Trackable in Real Time

• Many Technologies Needed to Solve the Climate Crisis Are Nowhere Near Ready

Overflowing Landfills

• Where Will The Trash Go When All the US Landfills are Full?