TITLE:

Mathematical systems modeling the impact of spatially heterogeneous temperature on dengue fever transmission

DATE:

Friday, January 26th, 2018

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS-314

SPEAKER:

Dr. Feng-Bin Wang, Division of Natural Science, Center for General Education,
Chang Gung University, Taiwan; Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan.

ABSTRACT:

Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, has become one of the major public
health problems in the tropical regions of the world. In this talk, we
propose mathematical models to describe the impact of spatially heterogeneous
temperature on the dynamics of dengue epidemics. We define two indices,
mosquito reproduction number and infection invasion threshold, which
completely determine the global threshold dynamics of the model. We also
perform numerical simulations to explore the impact of spatially heterogeneous
temperature on the disease dynamics. Our analytical and numerical results
reveal that spatial heterogeneity of temperature can have significant impact
on the transmission of dengue epidemics

HOST:

Dr. Naveen Vaidya

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