Chiara Poletto visiting Complex Systems Institute Rhône-Alpes, Lyon July 13, 2010
On July 9 Chiara Poletto visited the Complex Systems Institute Rhône-Alpes (IXXI), Lyon. Chiara gave a talk titled “Human mobility in an emerging epidemic: a key aspect for response planning”, focused on the research activity done in the context of the EpiFor project in order to analyze the H1N1 pandemic of last year (for the research article on this work click here). More…
GLEaMviz Simulator goes public! June 24, 2010
The Public Edition of the GLEaMviz Simulator becomes available.
The GLEaMviz Simulator is a software system with an intuitive and flexible GUI for the simulation of emerging infectious diseases spreading across the world, that we developed during the last 2 years. The software system levers on GLEaM, and its design maximizes flexibility in the definition of the disease compartmental model and in the configuration of the simulation scenario, allowing the user to set a variety of parameters, from compartment-specific features, to transition values, to environmental effects. More…
EpiFor @ ESOF 2010 June 22, 2010
EpiFor team will contribute to ESOF 2010, the Euroscience Open Forum that will be held in Torino, Italy, July 2 - 7, 2010.
ESOF is the biennial pan-European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation, created by Euroscience. ESOF takes place every two years, in a major European city, and presents breakthroughs in disciplines as varied as mathematics, music, geography, genetics etc. through a range of different formats including lectures, workshops etc. More…
EpiFor @ ICCS2010 June 21, 2010
The EpiFor team partecipated to the 10th edition of the International Conference on Computational Science, held in Amsterdam from May 31 to June 2, 2010, with a contributed talk by Corrado Gioannini titled "The GLEaMviz simulator. A software tool to explore realistic epidemic spreading at the global scale". More…
Epidemic Planet @ Edinburgh International Science Festival June 21, 2010
The Epidemic Planet exhibit at the Edinburgh International Science Festival has been a success: approximately 500 people per day have visited the special event "Meet the Medics and Vets" that hosted the Epidemic Planet. More…