The courses for SISMID 2026 are now online: The Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) | In-Person Program
I really enjoyed teaching nowcasting and forecasting with @nickreich last year. This year, we have split the course into two linked courses: first delays, Rt, and nowcasting, and then short-term forecasting.
This means we are in direct competition to see who gets the most students (or as I said to Nick, we are working together)…
On that note, what kinds of things would people be interested in seeing added to the nowcasting course?
The material from last year is here: Nowcasting and forecasting infectious disease dynamics - SISMID – NFIDD SISMID
Since last time Kaitlyn Johnson has done some nice stuff on baseline nowcasting we could include: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-614
We could also get into hazards a bit:
Or something on workflows for ID models:
TLDR: Please sign up for my course as I
1. have to compete with Nick and
2. Atlanta is really rather hot for me.
3. My teaching has been described as surprisingly okay.