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

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Cultural Forum Görlitz Synagogue

Cultural Forum Görlitz Synagogue

Kulturforum Görlitzer Synagoge Otto-Müller-Straße 3 02826 Görlitz Germany
Description

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
Dr. Weronika Schlechte-Welnicz
  • Monday 5 June
    • Check-in Cultural Forum Synagogue
    • Welcome
      Convener: Michael Bussmann (HZDR)
    • Introduction
    • Economics
      • 2
        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
      Coffee Break
    • Economics
      • 3
        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)
      • 4
        The socio-economic determinants of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Bayesian model averaging
        Speaker: Dr Zoran Utkovski (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, Germany)
    • Economics
      • 5
        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
      Coffee Break / Snack Bar
    • Panel Discussion
      Convener: Prof. Sabine Attinger (moderator) (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ)
      • 6
        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
    • Registration
    • Epidemic Modeling
      • 7
        Collaborative real-time modelling during the COVID-19 pandemic
        Speaker: Dr Johannes Bracher (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
      • 8
        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)
      • 9
        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
      Coffee Break
    • Infectious diseases and public health
      • 10
        Structural risk factors in epidemic dynamics of COVID-19
        Speaker: Prof. Tyll Krüger (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland)
    • Epidemic Modeling
      • 11
        Managing emerging epidemics with limited testing resources: COVID-19 and beyond
        Speaker: Dr Jeff Demers (University of Maryland, USA)
      • 12
        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
      Lunch Break

      to be organized individually

    • Building Structures, Establishing Processes
      • 13
        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)
      • 14
        The data infrastructure behind an interdisciplinary cross-national COVID-19 study
        Speaker: Dr Lennart Schüler ((Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany))
    • 16:30
      Coffee Break
    • Building Structures, Establishing Processes
      • 15
        Building infectious disease epidemiology infrastructures in Germany
        Speaker: Dr Berit Lange (HZI - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany)
      • 16
        What wastewater sampling can teach us about public health - and COVID-19, in particular
        Speaker: Björn Helm (TU Dresden)
    • 18:10
      Guided city tour

      Online registration required (link on this website)

    • 19:10
      Transition to Conference Dinner
    • 20:00
      Conference Dinner
  • Wednesday 7 June
    • Registration
    • Infectious Diseases and Public Health
      • 17
        Life beyond the pixels: deep learning methods in cancer and virus research
        Speaker: Prof. Peter Horvath (BRC - Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary)
      • 18
        Creating virtual platform for rapid initiation of households transmission studies – the example of DigiHero
        Speaker: Prof. Rafael Mikolajczyk (Halle University Medical Center, Germany)
      • 19
        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
      Coffee Break
    • Infectious Diseases and Public Health
      • 20
        Social contacts during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Germany
        Speaker: Dr Veronika Jäger (WWU Münster)
      • 21
        After the Pandemic is before the Pandemic: learning from Sars-Cov 2
        Speaker: Prof. Sabine Attinger ((Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Germany))
    • Closing Remarks and check-out
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