CASUS Workshop - “Data science and the COVID-19 pandemic – What have we learned so far?”

5 Jun 2023, 12:00 → 7 Jun 2023, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Cultural Forum Görlitz Synagogue

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has proven to be a systemic global crisis characterized by huge economic, social and ecological impacts. Consequently, an important research avenue is the development of a deeper understanding of how to increase coping capacities of nations facing pandemic crises in the future: What are the essential success factors in coping with the recent pandemic among nations? And how can coping capacities be increased in various national configurations to better handle similar future crises?

Answers to these questions can be extremely relevant for policy makers, health agencies, technology developers and also the responsible community leaders who plan prevention and intervention measures for similar future pandemics.

Numerous large and multifaceted data sets have become available worldwide. Advanced data science methods can be used to analyze them. Comprehensive and robust coupling of epidemiological and socio-economic model systems is possible. By bringing together experts from the fields of data science, data analyses, modeling and intervention strategies, the event organizers strive to tie down as many lessons learned as possible so that promising and urgent research avenues for the future can be identified.

Please find more details about the workshop and the designated topics on the event page on the CASUS homepage.

 

List of invited speakers 

Prof. Dr. Sabine Attinger, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Dr. Johannes Bracher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Prof. Dr. Justin Calabrese, CASUS, Görlitz, Germany

Dr. Jeff Demers, University of Maryland, USA

Prof. Dr. Erik Gawel, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Prof. Dr. Peter Horvath, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary

Prof. Dr. Tyll Krüger, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

Dr. Veronika Jäger, Münster University Medical Center, Münster, Germany

Dr. Berit Lange, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research HZI, Braunschweig, Germany

Prof. Dr. Rafael Mikolajczyk, Halle University Medical Center, Halle (Saale), Germany

Prof. Dr. Kai Nagel, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Viola Priesemann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Prof. Dr. Magdalena Rosińska, National Institute of Public Health, Warsaw, Poland

Dr. Lennart Schüler, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Dr.-Ing. Zoran Utkovski, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Artur Yakimovich, CASUS, Görlitz, Germany

Book of Abstracts_CASUS_Workshop-Data science and the COVID-19 pandemic – What have we learned so far.pdf

Monday 5 June

12:00 → 13:15 Check-in Cultural Forum Synagogue

13:25 → 13:30 Welcome

Convener: Michael Bussmann (HZDR)

13:35 → 13:50 Introduction

13:35 Introduction by CASUS Founding Manager

Speaker: Dr Michael Bussmann (CASUS/HZDR)

230605_casus_covid19.pdf

13:50 → 14:40 Economics

13:50 The Mechanics of Pandemics

Speakers: Dr Sebastian Contreras (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization), Prof. Viola Priesemann (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany)

14:40 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 16:20 Economics

15:00 Interactions between autonomous risk appraisal and policy-induced behavioral change – An economic analysis of behavioral adaptation in the COVID-19

Speakers: Prof. Erik Gawel (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany), Dr Heinrich Zozmann (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany)

15:40 The socio-economic determinants of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Bayesian model averaging

Speaker: Dr Zoran Utkovski (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, Germany)

16:20 → 16:50 Economics

16:20 Lightning talks session "Economics"

The effectiveness of containment measures in Germany: a structural VAR approach
Speaker: Gerome Wolf (ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany)

Tracing the COVID-19 associated excess mortality to the socioeconomic status of countries
Speaker: Kolja Nenoff (Leipzig University, Germany)

16:50 → 17:30 Coffee Break / Snack Bar

17:30 → 18:30 Panel Discussion

Convener: Prof. Sabine Attinger (moderator) (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ)

17:30 How can we increase the coping capacity of nations facing a systemic crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic in the future?

Panelists: Prof. Peter Horvath, Prof. Tyll Krüger, Prof. Kai Nagel, Prof. Magdalena Rosińska

Tuesday 6 June

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 11:00 Epidemic Modeling

09:00 Collaborative real-time modelling during the COVID-19 pandemic

Speaker: Dr Johannes Bracher (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

09:40 COVID-19 Epidemiology research at CASUS: From optimal testing to the coping capacity of nations

Speaker: Prof. Justin Calabrese (CASUS - Center for Advanced Systems Understanding, HZDR, Germany)

10:20 Agent-based simulation of COVID virus spreading and what we may have learned from it

Speaker: Prof. Kai Nagel (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

11:00 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 11:50 Infectious diseases and public health

11:10 Structural risk factors in epidemic dynamics of COVID-19

Speaker: Prof. Tyll Krüger (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland)

11:50 → 13:30 Epidemic Modeling

11:50 Managing emerging epidemics with limited testing resources: COVID-19 and beyond

Speaker: Dr Jeff Demers (University of Maryland, USA)

12:30 Lightning talks session "Epidemic Modeling"

Integrating Behavioral Models into Epidemiological Modeling to Improve Pandemic Response
Speaker: Dr Xiaoming Fu (CASUS - Center for Advanced Systems Understanding, HZDR, Germany)

Modelling infection diseases with equation- and agent-based models
Speakers: Dr. David C. Kerkmann (HZI) & Henrik Zunker (DLR)

13:30 → 15:00 Lunch Break

to be organized individually

15:00 → 16:30 Building Structures, Establishing Processes

15:00 Data systems developed during the pandemic in Poland and lessons learnt regarding the (re)use of data

Speaker: Prof. Magdalena Rosińska (National Institute of Public Health, Poland)

15:50 The data infrastructure behind an interdisciplinary cross-national COVID-19 study

Speaker: Dr Lennart Schüler ((Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany))

16:30 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 18:10 Building Structures, Establishing Processes

16:50 Building infectious disease epidemiology infrastructures in Germany

Speaker: Dr Berit Lange (HZI - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany)

17:30 What wastewater sampling can teach us about public health - and COVID-19, in particular

Speaker: Björn Helm (TU Dresden)

18:10 → 19:10 Guided city tour

Online registration required (link on this website)

19:10 → 20:00 Transition to Conference Dinner

20:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 7 June

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 11:10 Infectious Diseases and Public Health

09:00 Life beyond the pixels: deep learning methods in cancer and virus research

Speaker: Prof. Peter Horvath (BRC - Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary)

09:50 Creating virtual platform for rapid initiation of households transmission studies – the example of DigiHero

Speaker: Prof. Rafael Mikolajczyk (Halle University Medical Center, Germany)

10:30 Novel machine learning and data science tools to study infection phenotypes in cells

Speaker: Dr Artur Yakimovich (CASUS - Center for Advanced Systems Understanding, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR))

11:10 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:50 Infectious Diseases and Public Health

11:30 Social contacts during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Germany

Speaker: Dr Veronika Jäger (WWU Münster)

12:10 After the Pandemic is before the Pandemic: learning from Sars-Cov 2

Speaker: Prof. Sabine Attinger ((Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany))

12:50 → 13:00 Closing Remarks and check-out