BIRS Live Stream Schedule

Below is the schedule of talks, not necessarily those that will be broadcast. We encourage participants to record and broadcast their talks, but it is up to them to press the button.

Combinatorial Nonpositive Curvature (Sep 1 to 6)

Monday September 2 between 09:50 and 10:30 MDT [2024-09-02T09:50:00.00-06:00]
Piotr Przytycki of McGill University, Trees, fixed points, and the Cremona group
Monday September 2 between 15:30 and 16:10 MDT [2024-09-02T15:30:00.00-06:00]
Kevin Schreve of Louisiana State University, L^2-homology of right-angled Coxeter groups based on barycentric subdivisions
Tuesday September 3 between 17:10 and 17:30 MDT [2024-09-03T17:10:00.00-06:00]
Carl Kristof-Tessier of McGill University, Bipodality and the parallel wall theorem for Coxeter groups

Stochastics and Geometry (Sep 8 to 13)

Wednesday September 11 between 09:00 and 09:45 MDT [2024-09-11T09:00:00.00-06:00]
Peter Friz of Technische Universität and WIAS Berlin, Brownian rough paths in irregular geometries
Thursday September 12 between 13:00 and 13:45 MDT [2024-09-12T13:00:00.00-06:00]
Karl-Theodor Sturm of University of Bonn, Metric measure spaces and Dirichlet forms with distribution-valued Ricci bounds
Friday September 13 between 10:40 and 11:05 MDT [2024-09-13T10:40:00.00-06:00]
Rohan Sarkar of University of Connecticut, Spectrum of some Markov semigroups on Carnot groups of step 2 via intertwining

SocioEconomic Mathematical Epidemiology: Developing Mathematical Modelling Theory (Sep 15 to 20)

Monday September 16 between 11:00 and 11:30 MDT [2024-09-16T11:00:00.00-06:00]
Megan Delehanty of University of Calgary, Data don’t speak: Epistemic trust and scientific controversy
Monday September 16 between 11:30 and 12:00 MDT [2024-09-16T11:30:00.00-06:00]
Will not be broadcast: Dilshani Sarathchandra of University of Idaho, Identity roots and ideologies driving attitudes towards controversial science
Monday September 16 between 13:30 and 13:45 MDT [2024-09-16T13:30:00.00-06:00]
Iain Moyles of York University, Behaviour in Models vs Behaviour Modelling
Monday September 16 between 13:45 and 14:00 MDT [2024-09-16T13:45:00.00-06:00]
Chris Bauch of University of Waterloo, Simple, wrong and useful modelling in behavioural epidemiology
Monday September 16 between 14:00 and 14:15 MDT [2024-09-16T14:00:00.00-06:00]
Hugo Martin of Université de Rennes, Less effective but individually less costly prophylactic measures can reduce disease prevalence in a simple epidemic model accounting for human behaviour
Monday September 16 between 14:15 and 14:30 MDT [2024-09-16T14:15:00.00-06:00]
Rob Deardon of University of Calgary, Feedback mechanisms in epidemic models: Is your population alarmed?
Monday September 16 between 14:30 and 14:45 MDT [2024-09-16T14:30:00.00-06:00]
Teri Garstka of University of Kansas, Modeling Community Resilience: Is Network Analysis the Most Effective Method?
Monday September 16 between 15:30 and 15:45 MDT [2024-09-16T15:30:00.00-06:00]
Deborah Woodman of Algoma University, Making Meaning from both Quantitative and Qualitative Research – The Opiate and Mental Health Challenges in a Small Northern Ontario City
Monday September 16 between 15:45 and 16:00 MDT [2024-09-16T15:45:00.00-06:00]
Lindsey McConnell-Soong of University of Idaho, Reflections from the Extension Collaborative on Immunization Teaching and Engagement (EXCITE): Understanding vaccine attitudes in rural and/or medically underserved populations.
Monday September 16 between 16:00 and 16:15 MDT [2024-09-16T16:00:00.00-06:00]
Daniel Coombs of University of British Columbia, A Bayesian approach to combining behavioural surveys with clinical data in the context of HIV epidemiology
Monday September 16 between 16:15 and 16:30 MDT [2024-09-16T16:15:00.00-06:00]
Laurent Pujo-Menjouet of Université de Lyon, Forecasting the Effect of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) on HIV Propagation: do political and economical decisions help to regulate the disease?
Monday September 16 between 16:30 and 16:45 MDT [2024-09-16T16:30:00.00-06:00]
Bouchra Nasri of ESPUM, Behavioural modelling: linking data collection and modelling techniques
Monday September 16 between 16:45 and 17:00 MDT [2024-09-16T16:45:00.00-06:00]
Monica Cojocaru of University of Guelph, Behaviour, decision making and efficacy of NPI, vaccination measures in the ON pandemic
Monday September 16 between 17:00 and 17:15 MDT [2024-09-16T17:00:00.00-06:00]
Eric Foxall of University of British Columbia Okanagan, Representation of coupled opinion/infection models via opinion distribution and effective transmission rate
Monday September 16 between 17:15 and 17:30 MDT [2024-09-16T17:15:00.00-06:00]
Will not be broadcast: Azadeh Aghaeeyan of Brock University
Tuesday September 17 between 09:00 and 09:30 MDT [2024-09-17T09:00:00.00-06:00]
Eric Lacourse of Université de Montréal
Tuesday September 17 between 09:30 and 10:00 MDT [2024-09-17T09:30:00.00-06:00]
Jean-Marc Lina of Ecole de Tech. Superieure, ELE dep.
Tuesday September 17 between 10:00 and 10:30 MDT [2024-09-17T10:00:00.00-06:00]
Mathieu Caron-Diotte of Université de Montréal
Tuesday September 17 between 11:00 and 11:30 MDT [2024-09-17T11:00:00.00-06:00]
Mathieu Pelletier-Dumas of Université de Montréal
Tuesday September 17 between 11:30 and 12:00 MDT [2024-09-17T11:30:00.00-06:00]
Simon Bacon of Concordia University & CIUSSS-NIM HSCM, Modelling behaviour change using theory - an example from the COVID-19 pandemic
Tuesday September 17 between 13:30 and 13:45 MDT [2024-09-17T13:30:00.00-06:00]
Elissa Schwartz of Washington State University, Epidemic control and vaccine hesitancy: What vaccine efficacy levels are needed?
Tuesday September 17 between 13:45 and 14:00 MDT [2024-09-17T13:45:00.00-06:00]
Madhur Anand of University of Guelph
Tuesday September 17 between 14:00 and 14:15 MDT [2024-09-17T14:00:00.00-06:00]
Brian Beckage of University of Vermont
Tuesday September 17 between 14:15 and 14:30 MDT [2024-09-17T14:15:00.00-06:00]
Louis Gross of University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Tuesday September 17 between 14:30 and 14:45 MDT [2024-09-17T14:30:00.00-06:00]
Jane Heffernan of York University
Tuesday September 17 between 14:45 and 15:00 MDT [2024-09-17T14:45:00.00-06:00]
Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood of University of British Colombia
Tuesday September 17 between 15:30 and 15:45 MDT [2024-09-17T15:30:00.00-06:00]
Diana Cardenas of Université de Montréal
Tuesday September 17 between 15:45 and 16:00 MDT [2024-09-17T15:45:00.00-06:00]
Laura French Bourgeois of Western University
Tuesday September 17 between 16:30 and 16:45 MDT [2024-09-17T16:30:00.00-06:00]
Bert Baumgaertner of University of Idaho, Standards of Evidence and Deference to Experts
Tuesday September 17 between 16:45 and 17:00 MDT [2024-09-17T16:45:00.00-06:00]
Chenangnon Tovissode of University of Idaho
Tuesday September 17 between 17:00 and 17:15 MDT [2024-09-17T17:00:00.00-06:00]
Jacques Bélair of Université de Montréal
Tuesday September 17 between 17:15 and 17:30 MDT [2024-09-17T17:15:00.00-06:00]
Julien Arino of University of Manitoba

Dynamical Models Inspired by Biology (Oct 6 to 11)

Monday October 7 between 16:20 and 16:40 MDT [2024-10-07T16:20:00.00-06:00]
Daozhou Gao of Cleveland State University, TBD
Tuesday October 8 between 10:35 and 11:05 MDT [2024-10-08T10:35:00.00-06:00]
Alan Hastings of University of California Davis