IICD Newsletter September 2020

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September 8th, 2020   Computing the Exponential of a Matrix   Simon Tavaré Herbert and Florence Irving Director, Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics Meet Our Associate Members In this monthly newsletter, we will regularly feature the many talented members of our Institute. Chin Hur is a physician-scientist and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia University and Director of the Healthcare Innovations Research and Evaluation (HIRE) group.  He is a recognized expert in cancer screening and prevention for gastrointestinal cancers and is a member of a National Cancer Institute consortium of researchers that works towards improving cancer management. The overarching goal of his research as a physician-investigator is to improve both clinical cancer care and cancer control on a population level. An illustrative research project is developing a multi-scale simulation model of esophageal cancer that can be used to assess current and emerging endoscopic screening protocols to improve early detection of treatable disease. David Blei joined Columbia in Fall 2014 as a Professor of Computer Science and Statistics. He studies probabilistic machine learning and Bayesian statistics, including theory, algorithms, and application. Among his recent interests is the theory of causal inference, particularly in medical applications. He is co-mentoring Dr Mingxhang Yin, a postdoc supported by the DSI and the IICD. Announcing Two Mini-Series this Fall  on Probabilistic Modeling in Biology The Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and the Probability and Society Initiative will be jointly organizing two mini-series on the topic of "Probabilistic modeling in biology" this fall. Lectures will be given on zoom and open to all who wish to participate and learn about how cutting edge probabilistic methods are being applied to address questions in biology and epidemiology. FIRST SERIES OF LECTURES 11am-12noon  October 9, 16, 23   Amaury Lambert, professor at Sorbonne Université, Paris. Lambert's research centers on evolutionary biology (including phylogenetics, macro-evolution, speciation, population genetics, molecular evolution, somatic evolution) and stochastic processes (including branching processes, coalescent theory, excursion theory, Lévy processes, measure-valued processes). SECOND SERIES OF LECTURES 11am-12noon  November 6, 13, 20    Alison Etheridge, professor at Oxford. Etheridge's research focuses on population genetics, mathematical ecology, infinite dimensional stochastic analysis and superprocesses such as branching diffusions. The titles and abstracts for these lectures will be available a few weeks before they commence on the IICD website. Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*