CITS Hosts Multidisciplinary Lectures on COVID-19

Issues, Approaches, and Consequences of the COVID-19 Crisis

UCSB Faculty members and experts from the Santa Barbara community offered lecture sessions on a variety of facets and insights into the COVID-19 pandemic, and its implications across a range of areas. We encouraged faculty, staff, students, and community members to attend. Sessions convened on Tuesdays from 1 to 2 p.m. via Zoom.

Date Topic Speakers

April 14

SARS-CoV2: The Virus and the Disease

Carolina Arias Gonzalez
MCDB
UC Santa Barbara

Lynn N. Fitzgibbons
Cottage Health
Santa Barbara

April 21

Current Epidemiological Models: Scientific Basis and Evaluation 

Francesco Bullo
Mech. Engineering
UC Santa Barbara

April 28

Coping with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty of COV-19 Datasets

Yu-Xiang Wang
Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara

Ambuj Singh
Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara

May 5

Economic Aspects of the Crisis: 
Labor Markets During Pandemics

Peter Rupert
Economics
UC Santa Barbara

May 12

Social Scientific Insights: Attitudes, Policies, and Coping with the Crisis

Heejung Kim
Pschological and Brain Sciences
UC Santa Barbara

David Sherman
Pschological and Brain Sciences
UC Santa Barbara

Robin Nabi
Communication
UC Santa Barbara

May 19

Ultraviolet radiation decreases COVID-19 growth rates: Global causal estimates and seasonal implications

 

COVID-19 Testing Strategies and Capacity: Where are we and where do we need to be?

Kyle Meng
Economics and Env. Mngmnt
UC Santa Barbara

Carolina Arias Gonzalez
MCDB
UC Santa Barbara

Lynn N. Fitzgibbons
Cottage Health
Santa Barbara

May 26

An Analytical Time Geography Approach to Tracing Contacts in Movement Data

 

Preventing a Second Wave: Model Forecasts and Available Datasets

Somayeh Dodge
Geography
UC Santa Barbara

Mengyang Gu
Statistics
UC Santa Barbara

June 2 

COVID-19 Pandemic: Intervention, Testing and Economic Impact

 

COVID-19 Consequences and Inequalities

Munther Dahleh
IDSS
MIT

Susan Cassels
Geography
UC Santa Barbara

June 9

County Health Update and Health Equity Efforts

Van Do-Reynoso
Director of Public Health
SB County

Melissa Smith
Director of Health Equity
UC Santa Barbara

June16

The Crisis’ Effects on Business and Journalism in Santa Barbara

William Macfadyen
Founder and Publisher
Noozhawk

Kristin Miller
President and CEO
Goleta Chamber of Commerce
 

June 23

Understanding the Disease through Data

John Ioannidis
Chair in Disease Prevention
Stanford

Luca Foschini
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist
Evidation Health

June 30

Analysis of Trends and Transportation Patterns

Kostas Goulias
Geography
UC Santa Barbara

Xifeng Yan
Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara

 

 

 

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Sponsored by UCSB's Interdisciplinary Research Centers, NOVIM, and Cottage Health. 

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