Outreach activities

Dissemination activities

• Epidemic Planet @ Super Computing 2010.
  International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 13 – 19, 2010
  see also the post Epidemic Planet and SuperComputing
• Epidemic Planet @ International Science Festival
  Edinburgh International Science Festival, Edinburgh, UK, April 3 – 17, 2010
  see also the post Epidemic Planet at Edinburgh International Science Festival
• Epidemic Planet @ INFECTIOUS Art and Science Exhibit
  Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, April 17 to July 17, 2009
  see also the post GLEaMviz at INFECTIOUS, Science Gallery, Dublin

Editorial Materials

• The Flu Fighters
  V. Colizza & A. Vespignani
  Physics World, February 2009
  see also the post Feature in Physics World magazine
• People interact. They travel. And diseases might travel with them.
  V. Colizza
  Airneth Column (2009)
  see also the post Column on Airneth
  

Talks

• First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
  November 16-19, 2010, Montreaux, Switzerland.
  Session on complex systems.
  A. Vespignani
• Connecting the dots: A Network Visualization Symposium
  October 22, 2010, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
  Visualizing networks. [keynote]
  A. Vespignani
• ESF-Cost Conference: Future Internet and Society: A Complex Systems Perspective
  October 4-9, 2010, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy.
  Computational modeling and the forecast of socio-technical systems. [keynote]
  A. Vespignani
• Workshop on data driven dynamical networks
  September 30, 2010, Les Houches, France.
  Multiscale networks and epidemics. [keynote]
  V. Colizza
  Longitudinal analysis of microdynamical complex networks: a case study.
  P. Bajardi
• Euro-Par 2010 Conference
  September 3, 2010, Ischia, Italy.
  Computational Epidemiology: a New Paradigm in the Fight against Infectious Diseases.[keynote]
  V. Colizza
• Workshop on Recent Approaches in Modeling Animal Infectious Diseases
  September 28, 2010, Teramo, Italy.
  Human mobility, a key ingredient of global epidemic models: the case of the H1N1 pandemic.
  C. Poletto
• Turunç Workshop on Complex Systems 2010
  September 1, 2010, Turunç, Turkey.
  Modeling the international spread of the A/H1N1 pandemic: the experience after the 2009-2010 winter wave.
  M. Tizzoni
• Socially Coupled Systems & Informatics-Science, Computing and Decision Making in a Complex Interdependent World 2010 Conference
  July 12-14, 2010, Old Town Alexandria, VA, USA.
  Session on Complex Systems.
  A. Vespignani
• ICCS 2010 – International Conference on Computational Science
  June 2, 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  The GLEaMviz simulator. A software tool to explore realistic epidemic spreading at the global scale.
  C. Gioannini
• NetSci10 – International Workshop on Network Science 2010
  May 13, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  Pandemic influenza and medical response: assessing the sustainability and ecotoxicity risks.
  V. Colizza
  Global invasion of H1N1 influenza: could have we stopped it by grounding planes?
  P. Bajardi
• Workshop on Cascading Events in Complex Financial Networks
  May 11, 2010, The Fidelity Center for Applied Complexity, Boston, MA, USA.
  Theory of cascading events in complex networks [keynote]
  A. Vespignani
• International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Networks, Center for Scientific Computation & Mathematical Modeling
  April 7, 2010, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
  Predicting the behavior of techno-social systems: how complex networks, physics and computing help to fight off global pandemics.
  A. Vespignani
• APS March Meeting: Symposium “The Physics of Global Catastrophes and Countermeasures”
  March 14-17, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA.
  Forecasting techno-social systems: how physics and computing help to fight off global pandemics
  A. Vespignani
• APS March Meeting: Symposium “Human Mobility: the Statistical Physics of When, Where, and How”
  March 14-17, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA.
  Multiscale mobility networks and the large scale spreading of infectious diseases
  A. Vespignani
• APS March Meeting
  March 14-17, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA.
  Human mobility in an emerging epidemic: a key aspect for response planning.
  C. Poletto
  Human mobility and epidemic invasion.
  V. Colizza
• The James Martin 21st Century School Seminar Series
  February 25, 2010, University of Oxford, UK
  Predicting the Behaviour of Techno-Social Systems: How Informatics and Computing Help to Fight Off Global Pandemics.
  A. Vespignani
• International Conference: Networks, a framework for cross disciplinary applications
  February 3-6, 2010, Zaragoza, Spain.
  Predicting the behavior of techno-social systems. [keynote]
  A. Vespignani
• Global Health Conference – Global Flows in Global Health: Inter-Asian Connections
  Jan 4-8, 2010, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE.
  Epidemic Science in real time: the H1N1 case. [keynote]
  V. Colizza
• EPIDEMICS2
  December 3, 2009, Athens, Greece.
  Worldwide spread of the unfolding swine flu epidemic: early assessment and predictions.
  V. Colizza
• Symposium ‘Frontiers in Network Science’
  September 28-30, 2009, Berlin, Germany.
  Predicting the behavior of techno-social systems. [keynote]
  A. Vespignani
  Epidemic Science in real time: the H1N1 case. [keynote]
  V. Colizza
• ECCS09 – European Conference on Complex Systems 2009
  September 21-25, 2009, University of Warwick, UK.
  Worldwide spread of the unfolding swine flu epidemic: early assessment and predictions. [contributed]
  C. Poletto
  Complex Techno-Social Networks for Epidemic Forecasting. [invited]
  B. Goncalves
• NetSci09 – International Workshop on Network Science 2009
  June 29 – July 3, 2009, Venice, Italy.
  Multiscale networks and forecasting techno-social systems: Planning for pandemic outbreaks in real time. [keynote]
  A. Vespignani
• ICCS 2009 – International Conference on Computational Science “Compute. Discover. Innovate.”
  May 25-27, 2009, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
  Computational epidemiology: a new paradigm in the fight against infectious diseases [keynote]
  V. Colizza