Mini-conference on ”Epidemics, networks and competing growth”

This years winner of the Cramér prize for best doctoral thesis in statistics/mathematical statistics is Carolina Fransson (SU), with her thesis Stochastic epidemics on random networks and competition in growth. The Cramér Society is organising a mini-conference in honour of the winner, in connection to the annual meeting.

The event will take place Thursday March 21, on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/64386440145?pwd=MTVqdi9HeEZQWlIzYlRJdjc5R1d6UT09

Schedule:

• 12:55-13:00 Opening ceremony
• 13:00-13:30 Julia Komjathy (TU Delft)
  Stochastic epidemics on random networks and competition in growth
• 13:35-14:05 Bastian Prasse (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)
  Model reduction for epidemics on networks
• 14:10-14:40 Bas Lodewijks (University of Augsburg)
  Long-range competition on the complete graph
• 14:50-15:20 Peter Neal (University of Nottingham)
  The numbers of infectives in an SIR epidemic given only partial observation of the removal process
• 15:25-15:55 Carolina Fransson (Statistiska Centralbyrån)
  Epidemics on inhomogeneous random graphs with degree-dependent contact rates