Maths and Stats in Action - Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus

Date: Friday 31st January 2020, 1.00 pm - 2.00 pm

Venue: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics

Speakers: Professor Christl Donnelly and Dr Robin Thompson

Title: Maths and Stats in Action – Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus (slides from powerpoint presentation)

Recording of the talk.

Abstract: We will provide a whirlwind tour of the quantitative analyses currently underway to understand the transmission and control of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV). https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/news--wuhan-coronavirus/ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.24.919159v1

  Prof Christl Donnelly, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford & WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Modelling, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, J-IDEA, Imperial College London
Dr Robin Thompson, Mathematical Institute and Christ Church College