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UNIVERSITE CHEIKH ANTA DIOP DE DAKAR FACULTE DES SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES DEPARTEMENT DE MATHEMATIQUES ET

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Minisymposium at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

Title: Modeling of Infectious Diseases

with a focus on Ebola.

(March 5, 2016-UCAD II, Dakar, Senegal) Organizers: Aboubaker Chedikh Beye, former AIMS-Senegal President, Director of the Doctoral Course in Physics at University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, acbeye@gmail.com Martial Ndeffo Mbah, Yale University, martial.ndeffo-mbah@yale.edu Farai Nyabadza, Stellenbosch University, nyabadzaf@sun.ac.za Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University, ayakubu@howard.edu Local Organizers: Mamadou Barry, Professor, University Cheikh Anta Diop, mansabadion1@hotmail.com Mountaga Lam, Assistant Lecturer, University Cheikh Anta Diop, mountaga@ucad.edu.sn Papa Ngom, Lecturer, University Cheikh Anta Diop, papa.ngom@ucad.edu.sn Hamet Seydi, Professor, University Cheikh Anta Diop, hseydi@gmail.com

UNIVERSITE CHEIKH ANTA DIOP DE DAKAR FACULTE DES SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES DEPARTEMENT DE MATHEMATIQUES ET

INFORMATIQUE

Workshop Program Saturday, March 5, 2016 10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks: Fred Roberts and Local Organizer, Hamet Seydi and Lara Campbell 10:10 - 10:20 Opening Remarks: Ministers 10:20 - 10:40 Modeling Infectious Diseases of Africa

Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University 10:40 - 11:00 Parameter and State Estimation using Real Data Mountaga Lam, University Cheikh Anta Diop 11:00 - 12:00 Panel: Issues in Mathematics Education (How to Teach Mathematical Modeling ; challenges of Multidisciplinary Education ; Undergraduates) Panel Members Senelani D. Hove-Musekwa, University of Zimbabwe Abdoul Aziz Fall, University Alioune Diop, Bambey, Senegal Mountaga Lam, University Cheikh Anta Diop Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University Wayne Getz, UC Berkeley Edward Lungu, Chair, University of Botswana Amira Kebir, Tunis University 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 1:20 Juliet Pulliam, University of Florida 1:20 - 1:40 Be-CoDiS: A Mathematical Model to Predict the Risk of Human Diseases Spread between Countries,

Diene Ngom, Universite Assane Seck de Ziguinchor 1:40 - 2:00 Optimal Control for an Age-structured Model for the Transmission of HIV

Mboya Ba, University Cheikh Anta Diop 2:00 - 2:45 Poster session (local students and faculty) Poster: Oumar Alpha Bah (Modeling the impact of dust in meningitis) 2:45 - 3:30 Closing Panel: Next Steps; US-African Collaborations Panel Members Fred Roberts, Chair, Rutgers University Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University Hamet Seydi,University Cheikh anta Diop O.T. Kolebaje, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria Folashade Agusto, University of Kansas Theresia Marijani, University of Dar es Salaam 3:30 - 3:40 Closing Remarks: Fred Roberts, Hamet Seydi