Prof. Woldegerima receives tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
Our director has been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor at York University, effective July 1, 2026.
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Dr. Andrew Omame at the Dynamics with Delay workshop in Kingston
A three-day workshop at Queen's University on mathematical modelling with time delays, held in honour of Professor Tony Humphries of McGill University.
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MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026: hosting at the DIMMS Lab
The lab can host the outgoing phase of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship, with Prof. Woldegerima as supervisor.
Read the storyNew paper: modular arithmetic for seasonal disease modelling
Prof. Woldegerima and Nickson Golooba introduce modular arithmetic as a compact way to model seasonal transmission rates, with influenza as a case study.
Read the storyNew paper: mpox vaccination and behavioural change in the DRC
An age-structured model of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo compares vaccination with behavioural change among high-risk groups.
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A mechanistic stage-structured model for estimating life-history parameters of three economically important fish species in Canadian waters.
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DIMMS Lab at the 2025 SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings
Dr. Andrew Omame and Dr. Qi Deng represented the lab at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings in Montreal.
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Dr. Qi Deng publishes in PLOS Computational Biology
A modelling study of how the route of infection shapes monkeypox virus dynamics inside the host.
Read the storyDisease-informed neural networks for avian influenza prediction
Nickson Golooba combines neural networks with epidemiological structure to forecast the spread of avian influenza.
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Two new publications from Dr. Chigozie L. Ugwu
Papers in PLOS ONE and BMJ Global Health on the geography of mpox in Ontario and the risk factors for human mpox infection.
Read the storyJoe Tran earns first authorship as an undergraduate
A singular perturbation analysis of a Zika virus model, Joe Tran's first paper as first author, appears in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals.
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