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Agent-Based Modeling Bootcamp for Health Researchers 2012
Dates: August 20-25, 2012 (intensive all day Monday-Friday August 20-24; Saturday August 25 is reserved to allow Instructor and TAs to advise participants on their model project ideas.) Location: Spinks Addition S320 Teaching Lab, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada Attendance: Limited to 35 participants Fee for Tutorial: $900 per participant ($450 for students; a limited number of student volunteer positions are also available – see the workshop information at the end of this document.first 10 student attendees receive 50% discount) Participants from previous years of the bootcamp who wish to attend the bootcamp again may do so at no charge, space permitting. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Download: PDF Version of Tutorial information
The Agent-Based Modeling Bootcamp for Health Researchers is an intensive, hands-on tutorial that tutorial is a series of tutorials following the 2nd Annual Workshop on Dynamic Modelling for Health Policy (see information at end of document). The tutorials seeks to provide health science researchers background with a systematic, practical and accessible, and balanced introduction to agent-based modeling for health modeling approaches, using familiar language and concepts. TWhile this year’s tutorial is focused specifically on agent-based modeling, he tutorial will cover a broad set of topics in agent-based modeling, offer optional material opportunities for those seeking additional depth of coverage to secure additional knowledge, and emphasize the complementary insights offered by system approaches when agent-based modeling is combined with traditional health sciences approaches and with other systems science methods. Course material are drawn from the instructor’s semester-long interdisciplinary courses at MIT and the University of Saskatchewan, but will covered here in an intensive five-day “bootcamp”. Session videos, course presentations, example models, and other material will be made available together with for post-tutorial review. A post-course meeting will allow participants to brainstorm with the instructor and TAs concerning ideas for modeling projects. |