# Community seminars for real-time infectious disease modelling

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**Created:** [11 January 2023 13:35 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/community-seminars-for-real-time-infectious-disease-modelling/110 "2023-01-11T13:35:21Z")\
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**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:** [11 January 2023 13:35 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/community-seminars-for-real-time-infectious-disease-modelling/110/1 "2023-01-11T13:35:21Z")

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At multiple prior #meetings we have discussed the benefits of setting up a secondary meeting with a seminar-like structure (i.e where one person presents + some kind of Q and A). I really like this idea and am very happy to take point organising but would also be very happy to do this with someone else or in fact let someone else take on this role themselves.

The generally agreed focus would be quite permissive but aiming to focus on real-time modelling of infectious disease as as we know this is quite underserved and often poorly defined.

The current plan is to organise this on a monthly basis for the first Wednesday of the month at 2pm UK time (starting on the  
1st of February). Does that work for most people?

I think this should be fairly informal so would propose that people suggest/volunteer to speak in this thread and that we organise new speakers for the next Month in the week of that months meeting (if that makes sense) and then make a community post advertising it. Does anyone have suggestions for other systems?

You can sign up for our event calendar here: [https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=YTExM2I2ZjVkOTYxODA4ZjA5YjdhODA3ZTIwMzU1Mzk4ODY0Y2NhYjIzOWVkNjAyYzc5ZTkzYWM5OWY0YWQxM0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=YTExM2I2ZjVkOTYxODA4ZjA5YjdhODA3ZTIwMzU1Mzk4ODY0Y2NhYjIzOWVkNjAyYzc5ZTkzYWM5OWY0YWQxM0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t)

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**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:** [1 February 2023 15:27 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/community-seminars-for-real-time-infectious-disease-modelling/110/2 "2023-02-01T15:27:42Z")

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We now have a schedule and a new co-chair (@FelixGuenther).

> [@Community Seminar 2023-02-01 - Johannes Bracher - Collaborative nowcasting of COVID-19 hospitalization incidences in Germany](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/community-seminar-2023-02-01-johannes-bracher-collaborative-nowcasting-of-covid-19-hospitalization-incidences-in-germany/116/3):
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> Really nice to see everyone and thanks @johannes for a great talk! Here is a schedule for this series: [Seminar Schedule - Google Sheets](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OBkpxhiUPs0oXpmlUxlwhKfb3kBPaja7mUJlXXH3T60/edit?usp=sharing) As I said if interested in speaking or if there is someone you would be interested in hearing please reach out. @FelixGuenther has very kindly offered to help organise so we will be rotating chairs.