Speaker: Julien Arino

Title:
The global air transportation network and the spread of infectious diseases

Abstract:
The SARS epidemic of 2003 showed that the global air transportation network 
has the capacity to greatly facilitate and accelerate the dissemination of 
infectious pathogens. I will present work carried out in the context of the 
Bio.Diaspora Project, where we study worldwide commercial aviation and its 
relationship with the spread of infectious diseases. I will discuss the 
extensive databases we have, as well as computational aspect related to the 
use of these data, such as GIS, mapping, network analysis and mathematical 
simulations.