Speaker to discuss Ebola, influenza and future pandemics

9:56 a.m., Nov. 19, 2015--Mathematical biologist Carlos Castillo-Chavez will deliver the annual Carl J. Rees Lecture, sponsored by the University of Delaware’s Department of Mathematical Sciences, at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 20, in Room 103 Gore Hall.

The lecture, titled “Beyond Ebola and Influenza: Lessons Learned for Mitigating Future Pandemics,” is free and open to the public. A reception will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Room 536 Ewing Hall.

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Castillo-Chavez is a Regents Professor, a Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology and a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University. 

He conducts research at the interface of mathematics and natural and social sciences, with a particular interest in the applications of mathematics in emerging and re-emerging diseases.

A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American College of Epidemiology and the American Mathematical Society, Castillo-Chavez has received numerous awards for both his scholarship and his extensive mentoring of students.

His lecture comes just over a year since the confirmed beginning of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which now appears to be nearing its end. 

He will discuss possible strategies to address future outbreaks of this and other pathogens, as well as the application of phenomenological and mechanistic models that highlight the role that dispersal, mobility and residence times play in the transmission dynamics of Ebola.