Name: CASUS Workshop - “Data science and the COVID-19 pandemic – What have we learned so far?”
Start: 2023-06-05T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-06-07T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Cultural Forum Görlitz Synagogue

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

from Monday 5 June 2023 (12:00) to Wednesday 7 June 2023 (13:00)

Monday 5 June 2023

12:00

12:00 - 13:15

13:25

13:25 - 13:30
13:35
13:35 - 13:50
Contributions

13:35 Introduction by CASUS Founding Manager - Michael Bussmann (CASUS/HZDR)
13:50
13:50 - 14:40
Contributions

13:50 The Mechanics of Pandemics - Sebastian Contreras (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization) Viola Priesemann (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany)
14:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:40 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:20
Contributions

15:00 Interactions between autonomous risk appraisal and policy-induced behavioral change – An economic analysis of behavioral adaptation in the COVID-19 - Erik Gawel (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany) 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 - Zoran Utkovski (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, Germany)
16:20
16:20 - 16:50
Contributions

16:20 Lightning talks session "Economics"
16:50 Coffee Break / Snack Bar
Coffee Break / Snack Bar
16:50 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 18:30
Contributions

17:30 How can we increase the coping capacity of nations facing a systemic crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic in the future?
Tuesday 6 June 2023

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Collaborative real-time modelling during the COVID-19 pandemic - 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 - 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 - Kai Nagel (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 11:50
Contributions

11:10 Structural risk factors in epidemic dynamics of COVID-19 - Tyll Krüger (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland)
11:50
11:50 - 13:30
Contributions

11:50 Managing emerging epidemics with limited testing resources: COVID-19 and beyond - Jeff Demers (University of Maryland, USA)

12:30 Lightning talks session "Epidemic Modeling"
13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Data systems developed during the pandemic in Poland and lessons learnt regarding the (re)use of data - Magdalena Rosińska (National Institute of Public Health, Poland)

15:50 The data infrastructure behind an interdisciplinary cross-national COVID-19 study - Lennart Schüler ((Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany))
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:50
16:50
16:50 - 18:10
Contributions

16:50 Building infectious disease epidemiology infrastructures in Germany - 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 - Björn Helm (TU Dresden)
18:10 Guided city tour
Guided city tour
18:10 - 19:10

19:10 Transition to Conference Dinner
Transition to Conference Dinner
19:10 - 20:00

20:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday 7 June 2023

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 11:10
Contributions

09:00 Life beyond the pixels: deep learning methods in cancer and virus research - Peter Horvath (BRC - Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary)

09:50 Creating virtual platform for rapid initiation of households transmission studies – the example of DigiHero - Rafael Mikolajczyk (Halle University Medical Center, Germany)

10:30 Novel machine learning and data science tools to study infection phenotypes in cells - Artur Yakimovich (CASUS - Center for Advanced Systems Understanding, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR))
11:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:50
Contributions

11:30 Social contacts during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Germany - Veronika Jäger (WWU Münster)

12:10 After the Pandemic is before the Pandemic: learning from Sars-Cov 2 - Sabine Attinger ((Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany))
12:50

12:50 - 13:00