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SISMID 2020 Module 7:<br>Simulation-based Inference for Epidemiological Dynamics
<br><div style="font-size: 72pt;">Welcome!</div>
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Course syllabus

https://kingaa.github.io/sbied/syllabus.html

Course Organization

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The course will have five components:

1.   A mandatory self-learning component

  • Videos linked from the course website
  • PDF versions of the lecture notes and slides
  • Questions to #mod07simulationinference Slack channel
  • Questions answered either via Slack, or in the live sessions
  • On Slack: avoid unnecessary duplication!

2.   Exercises

  • Intended to consolidate and challenge your understanding of key concepts and methods
  • Grapple with these Exercises on your own first
  • The progress you make is less important than making a start at thinking about and working on the Exercise before the live session.
  • Questions: send to the course Slack channel prior to the day's session!

3.   Live plenary discussions

  • Raise additional questions!
  • Mute your audio and video at the start and keep muted until you have a question.

4.   Breakout-group sessions

  • Small groups work on the Exercises
  • Breakout groups persist for the duration of the course.
  • Within each breakout group, five roles
  • Asking for help from a group: a. post a question via Slack b. send a member out of the breakout room to ask c. leave the breakout room as a group d. use the 'Ask for Help' feature
  • Do not hesitate to ask for help when needed!

5.   Optional office hours

  • Drop in with questions or when you need help

Course Ground Rules

In the spirit of ensuring an efficient and enjoyable learning experience for everyone, ....

  1. During live plenary discussions, turn on your audio and video only for questions.

  2. When submitting over Slack, take some care to avoid unnecessary duplication.

  3. During the breakout discussions, keep both your audio and video on.

  4. Set your "name" in your Zoom session to what you want to be called.

Course Ground Rules

  1. Be on guard against distractions.

  2. Speak up!

  3. Be courteous.

  4. Dress comfortably, but professionally.

  5. Don't forget to laugh!

Breakout Room Roles

  • Designed to help the group function smoothly, and to make sure everyone in a group contributes to the group effort, and that every important task has someone to look after it.
  • At the first breakout-group meeting:
    • Introduce yourselves
    • Decide who will perform each role to begin with
  • Change the roles periodically, but not during a single session!
  • None of these is a full-time job: everyone contributes toward the group's work, everyone listens to, everyone engages with, the contributions of the others

Keeper

  • Keep time
  • Keep track of the group's goals
  • Keep the group focused and running smoothly and happily.
  • Make sure everyone is getting their needs met, everyone is able to contribute, and that the group is not losing sight of its goals.

Taker

  • Takes notes:
    • What questions are being addressed?
    • What hypotheses formulated?
    • What approaches tried?
    • What results obtained?
    • What questions arose?
    • What answers were discovered?
  • Complete but very concise notes
  • Everyone in the group gets access!
  • Shared online document?

Seeker

  • Seeks out information to help answer group questions
  • Has all the course materials at hand
  • Rapidly share search results with the group

Hacker

  • Everyone does hands-on work with the methods we are teaching.
  • The Hacker produces the definitive version of the group's codes
  • Makes sure that all group members have access to the definitive version
  • Shared online document?
  • Makes sure everyone in the group is fully involved in all the coding

Slacker

  • Monitors the group's interface with the course Slack channel
  • Prepares a précis of the group's efforts and progress
  • Send to the instructors and the rest of the participants over Slack
  • Essentials only:
    • What exercises were tackled?
    • What approaches taken?
    • What progress made?
    • What difficulties encountered?

Groups that have only four members:

  • combine Seeker and Taker, or
  • combine Seeker and Keeper.

Groups that have only three members:

  • combine Seeker, Keeper, and Taker roles in one.

Tentative Schedule

All times are EDT (UTC-04:00)

Wednesday, 15 July

**Before 14:30:** View lecture videos for Lessons 1 and 2 (c. 2.5hr). Begin work on the Exercises 2.3 and 2.4. **14:30--15:30:** Welcome. Live plenary discussion on Lessons 1 and 2 lectures **15:30--15:45:** Set up Zoom breakout rooms **15:45--16:45:** Breakout groups work on Lesson 2 exercises **16:45--17:30:** Live plenary discussion of breakout group results **17:30--18:30:** Optional Office hour

Thursday, 16 July

**Before 11:00:** View lecture videos for Lessons 3 and 4 (c. 4hr). Begin work on the Exercises. **11:00--12:00:** Live plenary discussion on Lesson 3 lecture **12:00--13:00:** Breakout groups work on Lesson 3 exercises **13:00--13:45:** Live plenary discussion of breakout group progress **13:45--14:30:** Break

Thursday, 16 July

**14:30--15:30:** Live plenary discussion on Lesson 4 lecture **15:30--16:30:** Breakout groups work on Lesson 4 exercises **16:30--16:45:** Break **16:45--17:30:** Live plenary discussion of breakout group progress **17:30--18:30:** Optional Office hour

Friday, 17 July

**Before 11:00:** View lecture video for Lesson 5 and (optionally) one or more of Lessons 6, 7, 8 (c. 1.5--3hr) **11:00--12:00:** Live plenary discussion on Lesson 5 lecture **12:00--13:00:** Breakout groups work on exercises from Lessons 2--4 **13:00--13:45:** Live plenary discussion of breakout group progress **13:45--14:30:** Break

Friday, 17 July

**14:30--15:10:** Live, optional, plenary discussion on Lesson 6 **15:10--15:50:** Live, optional, plenary discussion on Lesson 7 **15:50--16:30:** Live, optional, plenary discussion on Lesson 8 **14:30--16:30:** Those not attending a plenary discussion can use the time to work individually or in groups on the Exercises. **16:30--17:30:** Live plenary discussion. Questions and answers. Concluding remarks. **17:30--18:30:** Optional drop-in session: all topics welcomed.

Link to pre-module survey

Course homepage