SMB: Announcing the MathEduEpi 2025 virtual mini-conference

[Meredith Greer]

(Apologies to those of you receiving this twice. I am emailing the membership list I received from SMB, as well as the SMB Education Google Group, trying to make sure everyone has a chance to hear about this and possibly participate.)

Hello SMB colleagues! This email is going to all members of the Education and Mathematical Epidemiology subgroups. These groups will jointly host a virtual mini-conference May 20-21, spanning multiple time zones.

If you are interested in proposing a talk, please fill out this form by April 28, 2025 (11:59pm EDT). 

We look forward to hearing your ideas and joining together online.

All the best,

Meredith Greer

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Meredith L. Greer (she/her/hers)

Professor of Mathematics

Division Chair, Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Chair, BIO SIGMAA 

Chair, MEPI subgroup of SMB

Bates College 

205 Hathorn Hall

Lewiston, ME  04240

https://www.bates.edu/faculty-expertise/profile/meredith-l-greer/

[Glenn Ledder]

Hi Meredith,

Though retired, I am still active.  I'll be putting in an abstract.  First, though, I have a question.

My most recent work is on the development of an ODE for individual change of an opinion -X \le x \le X due to the effects of social media, along with a corresponding PDE for the aggregate change this causes in the opinion distribution of a population.  This is not inherently a disease issue; however, we are doing this model so that it can be used as part of a disease model in which attitude toward vaccination is key.  If I emphasize the connection to epidemiology in my abstract, would this be acceptable?  If not, I'll submit something recently published.

I also want to advocate for an abstract you will receive from a researcher with a very modest profile.  He is Berhe Kahsay, from Ethiopia.  Mr. Kahsay has 3 published papers, which he did while working as an instructor in math departments.  He also has an excellent unpublished manuscript, which was submitted to a special issue I am editing.  I have no doubt this paper would be accepted, but it won't be published because Mr. Kahsay cannot afford the outrageous publication charge, even with the "generous" 50% discount that I was allowed to offer him. The three papers, in aggregate, would have made a very nice PhD thesis if he had written them as part of a PhD program.  He has not had this opportunity.  I am hoping that we can bring him into the SMB and epidemiology communities in order to get him an offer for a graduate program.  It is shameful that such a talented researcher should have such a daunting career path simply because he is from sub-Saharan Africa, but SMB has always been a great resource for such people.

Best,

Glenn

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[Glenn Ledder]

Sorry.  I meant to send this just to Meredith

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