MONID Summer School 2024
"Agent-based Modeling for Spread of Infectious Diseases - Basics, Challenges and Best Practices"
September 23 – 27, 2024 in Halle (Saale)
PULS/Active Learning Space at the Language Center
organized by MONID Coordination Office in cooperation with the Junior Research Group Health Economics/Care Research and the Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a powerful computational approach for simulating the spread of infectious diseases by modeling interactions among agents, usually individuals within a population. This method is particularly useful for exploring complex scenarios in heterogeneous populations and assessing the effectiveness of public health interventions, providing valuable insights for disease control and management.
We will outline the key concepts of agent-based modeling in the context of infectious diseases, highlight challenges including building a synthetic population and data acquisition, explain the modeling of (non-pharmaceutical) interventions, and discuss how to make large models fast.
The course will be offered by lecturers from the MONID network and other external partners.
The course is designed for postgraduate students and scientists interested in agent-based modeling with basic knowledge of infectious disease modeling.
The course is free of charge and takes place on site (maximum 20 people, MONID members will be given priority).
Accommodation is not provided and must be booked and paid for by the participants themselves.
The course language is English.
Course objectives
- To provide an understanding of the fundamental principles and theory behind ABM
- To explore techniques for constructing realistic synthetic populations
- To provide an understanding of disease transmission dynamics and contact networks within ABMs
- To provide insights into modeling disease interventions
The main topics covered will include
- Introduction to ABM
- Building a synthetic population
- Transmission dynamics and contact networks in ABM
- Calibration and validation of ABMs
- Modeling interventions
- Parallelization techniques for ABMs
Lecturers at the Summer Schools include
- Nikolas Popper, TU Vienna Informatics
- Tyll Krüger, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
- Jan Pablo Burgard, University of Trier
- Wolfgang Bock, Linnaeus University
- Martin Bicher, TU Wien Informatics
- Johannes Ponge, University of Münster
The course language is English.
We will use R, and prior knowledge is needed. Please bring your laptop with an installed version of the software(R and R Studio or a similar interface).
The course is designed for postgraduate students and scientists interested in agent-based modeling with basic knowledge of infectious disease modeling.
The course is free of charge. Accommodation is not provided and must be booked and paid for by the participants themselves.
We are happy to welcome everyone and will do our best to make participation possible for everyone, but places are limited to a maximum of 20 people. Registration is therefore no guarantee of participation. For registrations above the maximum number of participants, MONID members will be given priority.
Registration deadline: August 15, 2024
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
PULS/Active Learning Space at the Language Center
August-Bebel-Straße 13c, 06108 Halle
From Halle (Saale) main station:
Tram:
– take tram line 7 (direction Kröllwitz) to the stop “Hermannstr.” (then walk approx. 5 min)
– Line 2/5/12 to the stop “Am Steintor” (then walk approx. 11 min)
Public transportation in Halle
By foot / bicycle:
– on foot in approx. 30 minutes or by bike in approx. 8 minutes
Cab:
– by cab in approx. 8 minutes
From Leipzig/Halle Airport:
With the Deutsche Bahn (DB) / S-Bahn
– every half hour directly to Halle (Saale) in 15 minutes with the S5 or S5X
Cab
– in approx. 30 minutes
Directions by car:
Highways
– A 9 Berlin-Munich
– A 14 Dresden-Magdeburg
– A 38 Göttingen-Leipzig (“Südharzautobahn”)
– A 143 Western bypass Halle
Federal highways
– B 6 (from the North Sea coast in a south-easterly direction through the federal states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony to the Polish border)
– B 80 (west-east axis from Hesse through four federal states)
– B 91 (south-north axis from Zeitz via Weißenfels and Merseburg)
– B 100 (from Lutherstadt Wittenberg via Bitterfeld-Wolfen)
Parking
Parking spaces in the city center are limited and usually fee-based.
B&B Hotel Halle (Saale)
Address:
Hallorenring 9 , 06108 Halle (Saale)
Contact:
Phone: +49 345 279573 50
E-mail: halle-saale@hotelbb.com
Web: https://www.hotel-bb.com/de/hotel/halle-saale
TRYP by Windham Halle
Address:
Neustädter Passage 5, 06122 Halle (Saale)
Contact:
Phone: +49 345 69310
E-mail: info@tryphalle.com
Web: https: //www.tryphalle.com/de
ibis Styles Halle
Address:
Delitzscher Str. 17, 06112 Halle (Saale)
Contact:
Phone: +49 345 57120
Email: H9033@accor.com
Web: https://all.accor.com/hotel/
Hotel Atlas Halle
Address:
Delitzscher Str. 32 A, 06112 Halle (Saale)
Contact:
Phone: +493456815300
E-mail: info@atlas-halle.com
Web: https://atlas-halle.com/
Ankerhof
Address:
Ankerstraße 2a, 06108 Halle (Saale)
Contact:
Phone: +49 345 / 57 027-0
E-mail: reception@ankerhof.de Web: https://ankerhof.de/
the niu Ridge
Address:
Riebeckplatz 10, 06108 Halle (Saale)
Contact:
Phone: +49 345 47119659
E-mail: ridge@the.niu.de Web: https://the.niu.de/hotels/deutschland/halle/the-niu-ridge
Dorint Charlottenhof
Address:
Dorotheenstraße 12, 06108 Halle (Saale)
Contact:
Phone: +49 345 2923-0
E-mail: info.halle-charlottenhof(at)dorint.com Web: https://hotel-halle-saale.dorint.com/de/
Contact:
Carla Hartmann and Sabine Baumgarten (project management)
E-mail: modellierungsnetz@medizin.uni-halle.de
