# Community Seminar - 2025-10-01 - Sandra Montes - Optimisation and Dynamic Survival Analysis: Towards a Toolkit for Epidemic Preparedness **URL:** \ **Category:** Meetings\ **Created:** [29 September 2025 11:32 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/community-seminar-2025-10-01-sandra-montes-optimisation-and-dynamic-survival-analysis-towards-a-toolkit-for-epidemic-preparedness/352 "2025-09-29T11:32:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samabbott](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.epinowcast.org/samabbott/32/5_2.png) [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\ **Post date:** [29 September 2025 11:32 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/community-seminar-2025-10-01-sandra-montes-optimisation-and-dynamic-survival-analysis-towards-a-toolkit-for-epidemic-preparedness/352/1 "2025-09-29T11:32:27Z")
For this weeks seminar (Wednesday at 3pm UK time) we have Sandra Montes talking about dynamic survival analysis (lots of overlap with [Addressing Critical Gaps in Generation Time Estimation During Outbreaks - grant application - #3 by samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/addressing-critical-gaps-in-generation-time-estimation-during-outbreaks-grant-application/317/3) ) and automated control methods. More here: [Sandra Montes - Optimisation and Dynamic Survival Analysis: Towards a Toolkit for Epidemic Preparedness – Epinowcast](https://www.epinowcast.org/seminars/2025-10-01-sandra-montes/index.html) Feel very free to post async questions here. This recent paper may be of interest (for the optimal control part of the talk): [[2508.05290] Exploring epidemic control policies using nonlinear programming and mathematical models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05290) as may this unrelated but interesting work: [GitHub - epirecipes/EpiCats: Applied category theory applied to epidemiological models](https://github.com/epirecipes/EpiCats)