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Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (AI4PH) Summer …

WEBThe Fields Institute is a centre for mathematical research activity - a place where mathematicians from Canada and abroad, from academia, business, industry and financial institutions, can come together to carry out research …

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Fields receives $3M grant to establish pan-Canadian …

WEBThe MfPH group is comprised of 48 co-investigators, 21 Canadian institutions and more than 20 national and international collaborators in fields such as epidemiology, mathematical modelling, infectious disease, and public health. It will mobilize a national network that uses state-of-the-art techniques to advise on public health policy with the …

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What the Numbers Say: Endemicity

WEBOn March 10, Michael Li (University of Alberta) moderated a panel of experts on the mathematical approach to COVID-19 endemicity. Hear what the numbers are saying about the upcoming removal of masking mandates, future variants and the role mathematics can play in future public health emergencies.

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Fields Mathematics Education Journal

WEBLearn more about us. The Fields Institute promotes mathematical activity in Canada and helps to expand the application of mathematics in modern society. Everyone is welcome to register and participate in events at the Fields Institute. Find us on the following social media sites. E-mail: [email protected].

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Fields Institute and RIWI work on Public MediWellsline …

WEBThe Fields Institute has partnered with RIWI, a third-party survey company that uses a unique methodology to reach the broadest possible set of potential survey respondents continuously, drawing on populations otherwise not included in data collection. We are working to understand attitudes toward public health guideline uptake in Ontario during …

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Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19

WEBThe Fields Institute, in partnership with AARMS, CRM, and PIMS, and in collaboration with PHAC, VIDO-Intervac, and the NRC, has formed the Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 Task Force to undertake research relating to COVID-19. Under the leadership of Fields Institute Director Kumar Murty, the task force will bring together Canadian mathematics …

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Health Numeracy for Better Health: Mathematics and …

WEBAlthough the conference venue is a mathematics institute, this is not a mathematics conference. We plan to mobilize mathematics education researchers and health care professionals to work together, on practical issues related to improving health numeracy education among health care professionals, patients, and their families.

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Predicting what comes next: modelling the COVID-19 …

WEBThe Fields Institute is a centre for mathematical research activity - a place where mathematicians from Canada and abroad, from academia, business, industry and financial institutions, can come together to carry out research …

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The use of a hurricane model in public health: method, …

WEBHurricane models are family of the nonparametric models more familiar to the world of finance and banking where it is used for forecasting of various financial indicators. The methodology was developed by a team led by Taha Jaffer and Kumar Murty from Fields Institute and the University of Toronto with funding provided from CIHR and NSERC. …

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Café Mathématique: What is a model of COVID-19

WEBPanelists David L. Buckeridge, MD PhD FRCPC. David Buckeridge is a Professor in the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University in Montreal where he directs the Surveillance Lab, an interdisciplinary group that develops, implements, and evaluates novel computational methods for population health surveillance.

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MfPH Workshop on Early Warning Systems for Emerging and Re …

WEBMathematics for Public Health (MfPH) is a program to develop a national network of infectious disease modellers and public health policy makers that can rapidly respond to public health emergencies.

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Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

WEBThe Fields Institute promotes mathematical activity in Canada and helps to expand the application of mathematics in modern society. Everyone is welcome to register and participate in events at the Fields Institute. Find us on the following social media sites. E-mail: [email protected]. People and Contacts.

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2021-2022 Colloquium on Mathematics for Public Health

WEBThe Mathematics for Public Health Colloquia are hour-long events where the program research is shared with those with an interest in disease modelling and public health. The foundation of this program will be the MfPH inaugural projects, whose teams will host one or more colloquia per year. Guest speakers will also be invited to share their program …

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Centre for Sustainable Development Fields Institute for Research …

WEBThe Centre for Sustainable Development brings together research activity in areas such as smart villages, smart communities, climate risk, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) investing and other themes related to sustainability. The Centre draws on the mathematical strength of the Fields community as well as partnerships with a diverse collection of …

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2022-2023 Colloquium on Mathematics for Public Health

WEBThe Mathematics for Public Health Colloquia are hour-long events where the program research is shared with those with an interest in disease modelling and public health. The foundation of this program will be the MfPH inaugural projects

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MfPH Workshop on Endemic COVID-19: Mathematical Insights

WEBDr. Harpreet S. Kochhar was appointed President of the Public Health Agency of Canada on October 12, 2021. Since re-joining the Health portfolio in 2020, when he was appointed to the role of Associate Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Kochhar has become an integral player in Canada's COVID-19 response.

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An Overview of Agent-Based Simulation Modeling with …

WEB44 Publications 1. Rafferty, Ellen RS, Wade McDonald, Nathaniel D. Osgood, Alexander Doroshenko, and MarwaFarag.“What we know now: an economic evaluation of chickenpox vaccination and dose timing using an agent-based model.”

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Keyfitz Lectures in Mathematics and the Social Sciences

WEBThe Fields Institute is pleased to announce a series of public lectures on the topic of "mathematics and the social sciences".

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Kumar Murty wins the 2023 CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize

WEBThe Jeffery-Williams Prize is named after Ralph Jeffery and Lloyd Williams, two influential Canadian mathematicians. The American-born Dr. Williams founded the Canadian Mathematical Congress in 1945, which later became the Canadian Mathematical Society, and is known for overseeing the doctorate of Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black person to …

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Asymptotics of implied volatility in local volatility models

WEBImplied volatility. bs is de ned as the unique solution to. C(s; t; K; T) = Cbs(s; t; K; T; bs) Substitute the transition density by the heat kernel expansion for both the model price C and the Black-Scholes price Cbs Expand in terms of T t on both sides of the resulting equation Further expand on Black-Scholes side the implied volatility.

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