Honours Research Topics
Visualisation of Influenza Epidemic Transmission
Supervisors: Prof. George Milne, Dr Joel Kelso
Our research group has constructed a program for simulating the spread
of influenza through the population of a town of approximately 30,000
people. One of the outputs of the simulator is a complete trace of
infection events. The goal of this project would be to present the
history of the epidemic in a graphical form by overlaying information
about infected individuals and their movements on a map of the simulated
area.
Construction of Virtual Communities for Influenza Epidemic Simulation
Supervisors: Prof. George Milne, Dr Joel Kelso
Our research group has constructed a program for simulating the spread
of influenza through the population of a town of approximately 30,000
people. One of the inputs to the simulator is a a "virtual community",
which describes a set individuals, households, workplaces and schools
and the connections between them. The goal of this project will be to
develop and implement a robust algorithm for constructing plausible
virtual communities using census, survey and other data.