Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute
and member, Departments of Biometrics, Statistics and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications MATHEMATICAL APPROACHES FOR EMERGING AND REEMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES: MODELS, AND THEORY METHODS is based on the proceedings of a successful one week workshop. The pro ceedings of the two-day tutorial which preceded the workshop "Introduction to Epidemiology and Immunology" appears as IMA Volume 125: Math ematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: An Introduction. The tutorial and the workshop are integral parts of the September 1998 to June 1999 IMA program on "MATHEMATICS IN BI OLOGY. " I would like to thank Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Director of the Math ematical and Theoretical Biology Institute and a member of the Depart ments of Biometrics, Statistics and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University), Sally M. Blower (Biomathematics, UCLA School of Medicine), Pauline van den Driessche (Mathematics and Statistics, Uni versity of Victoria), and Denise Kirschner (Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School) for their superb roles as organizers of the meetings and editors of the proceedings. Carlos Castillo-Chavez, es pecially, made a major contribution by spearheading the editing process. I am also grateful to Kenneth L. Cooke (Mathematics, Pomona College), for being one of the workshop organizers and to Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (Mathe matics, Howard University) for serving as co-editor of the proceedings. I thank Simon A. Levin (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Uni versity) for providing an introduction.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This two-volume set is based on a week-long workshop sponsored by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (the IMA) and held at the University of Minnesota in May 1999. … There is a lot of valuable work in this two-volume set which could meet the intended aim of introducing people to research-level mathematical epidemiology." (Geoff Aldis, UK Nonlinear News, November 2002)
Editors and Affiliations
Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute
and member, Departments of Biometrics, Statistics and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Department of Biomathematics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
Sally Blower
Department of Math and Stats, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Pauline Driessche
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA
Denise Kirschner
Department of Mathematics Howard, Howard University, Washington, USA
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
Biometrics Department, Cornell University, USA
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Models, Methods, and Theory
