Keynote Speakers

PUBLIC LECTURES

Vincenzo Capasso - University of Milano, Italy

Lecture Title: "Controlling the Spatial Spread of a Xylella Epidemic on Olive Trees"

Mirjam Kretzschmar - University of Utrecht, The Netherland

Lecture Title: "Role of epidemic models in public health policy support"

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Maíra Aguiar - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain

Lecture Title: "Within-host models unravelling the dynamics of dengue reinfections"

Konstantin Blyuss - University of Sussex, UK 

Lecture Title: "Mathematical modelling of replication-mutation dynamics in coronaviruses"

Louise Dyson - University of Warwick, UK 

Lecture Title: "Modelling the transmission of SARS-CoV2 in the UK"

Isabel Gordo - IGC, Portugal 

Lecture Title: "Microbiome evolution in the mammalian gut"

Aaron King - University of Michigan, USA 

Lecture Title: "Phylodynamic inference for Markov process models"

Yuliya Kyrychko - University of Sussex, UK 

Lecture Title: "Mathematical Modelling of Time-delayed Systems with Distributed Delays"

Ruy M. Ribeiro - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 

Lecture Title: "Modeling the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 within the host"

Lucia Russo -  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR-STEMS, Italy

Lecture Title: "Slow manifolds in complex dynamical systems"

Ira Schwartz- University of Maryland, USA

Lecture Title: "Predicting extreme outbreaks due to demographic and parametric noise in epidemics"

Nico Stollenwerk - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain 

Lecture Title: "The role of imported cases in subcritical epidemiological systems with large fluctuations"

INVITED SPEAKERS

Roberto Barrio - University of Zaragoza, Spain

Lecture Title: "Patterns of movement on insects: small CPGs, bifurcations and ubiquitous tripod gait"

Carlos Braumann- University of Évora,  Portugal

Lecture Title: "Are populations in random environments following Itô or Stratonovich calculus? Does it matter?"

Fabio Chalub - Nova University Lisbon, Portugal 

Lecture Title: "An overview of finite and infinite population models in evolutionary dynamics"

Alberto D’onofrio - University of Trieste, Italy

Lecture Title: "Behavioral Epidemiology of tiered social distancing policies: a simple approach"

Erida Gjini - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Lecture Title: "Dynamical underpinnings of multi-strain colonization systems using the replicator equation"

Maria Gutierrez - Cambridge University, UK

Lecture Title: "Evolution towards immune escape in an epidemic with vaccination: a mathematical approach"

Amira Kebir - University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

Lecture Title: "Optimal control theory: a mathematical approach to public health strategies

Bob W.  Kooi - VU Amstedam, Netherland

Lecture Title: "Periodically forced epidemiological models for dengue fever"

Marta Lopes - Nova University Lisbon, Portugal

Lecture Title: "Combined network inference and classification for the identification of molecular biomarkers in brain tumors based on multi-omics data"

Giovanni Marini - Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy

Lecture Title: "Modeling the West Nile virus incidence and seroprevalence in the avian host population in Northern Italy"

Roderick Melnik - University of Waterloo, Canada

Lecture Title: "Complex Biosocial Dynamics: Nonlocal Cooperative Behavior, Psychological Effects, and Collective Decision-Making"

Slimane ben Miled -  Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia

Lecture Title: "Towards a Generic Vector-Host Model"

Nicolás MorenoBasque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain

Lecture Title: "How hydrodynamics interactions and reactivity of surface proteins on enveloped viruses can determine an optimal protein density"

Gianni Pagnini - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain

Lecture Title: "Generalized Fokker--Planck Equations for Superstatistical Systems"

Paula Patricio - Nova University Lisbon, Portugal

Lecture Title: "Social vs. individual age-dependent costs of imperfect vaccination"

Alberto Pinto - University of Porto, Portugal

Lecture Title: "Evolutionary vaccination strategies for the reinfection SIRI model"

Carla M. A. Pinto- Polytechnic University of Porto,  Portugal

Lecture Title: "On a new population model for urban infestations"

Andrea Pugliese - University of Trento, Italy

Lecture Title: "Modelling releases of Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes: when can this strategy be effective in reducing mosquito densities?"

Ganna Rozhnova - University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherland

Lecture Title: "Prospects of HIV elimination among men who have sex with men in the Netherlands"

Christina Schenk - IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain

Lecture Title: "Mathematical modeling and control of thermal and disease transmission dynamics"

Cristiana Silva - ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Lecture Title: "Modeling the impact of individual behaviors on epidemic spreading through hybrid models"

Urszula Skwara - Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin, Poland

Lecture Title: "Some applications of fractional calculus to mathematical modelling of vector-borne diseases"

Lisete Sousa- University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Lecture Title: "The impact of multiple simultaneous testing in omics studies"

Uffe Thygesen - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Lecture Title: "Estimation in nonlinear stochastic differential equations using the Laplace approximation"

Delfim Torres - University of Aveiro, Portugal

Lecture Title: "Dynamic SIR models with exact solution"

Abdessamad Tridane - United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Lecture Title: "Modeling the impact of mobility suppression and vaccinations in containing epidemics in cities network"

Ezio Venturino - University of Torino, Italy

Lecture Title: "The role of bacteria in an anaerobic digester"