About:

During September 2021, ICMS Edinburgh hosted an Early Career Workshop - Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications.   This Public Lecture was part of the workshop.

Kit Yates will look at some of the basic models and mathematics underlying the understanding of disease spread, and pick apart the meanings behind some of the terms we hear about in the news: from exponential growth and R to critical immunisation threshold and herd immunity.
Kit Yates is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. He completed his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Oxford in 2011.