London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The setup will be an informal discussion about Tom Hladish’s recent work using ABC-SMC to estimate parameters in a stochastic agent-based model of dengue transmission.

Come prepared with questions for Tom on how the algorithm works/ what choices he made for his model (e.g. why that summary statistic?)

For those interested in learning more about ABC and how it is used to disease modelling, this will be an excellent opportunity to ask an author to explain their work in a friendly environment.

Please e-mail Amanda.Minter@lshtm.ac.uk to register your interest.