[FRIAM] Fwd: [SIMSOC] Urgent call for modellers to support epidemic modelling

[Pietro Terna]

     Best wishes from Italy, Pietro


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Oggetto: 	[SIMSOC] Urgent call for modellers to support epidemic modelling
Data: 	Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:14:53 +0000
Mittente: 	Nigel Gilbert <000019c353fb89ba-dmarc-request at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Rispondi-a: 	Nigel Gilbert <n.gilbert at SURREY.AC.UK>
A: 	SIMSOC at JISCMAIL.AC.UK



The Royal Society is coordinating a call for Rapid Assistance in 
Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP).

This urgent call to action is addressed to the scientific modelling 
community, and is a scheme to allow those with modelling skills 
(including data science) to contribute to current UK efforts in 
modelling the COVID-19 pandemic.

A willingness to work on specified tasks, and to deadlines, is needed. 
However, no previous experience in epidemic modelling, as such, is 
required of RAMP participants.

Full details of the scheme, with an online form to volunteer on behalf 
of your research group can be found here:

https://epcced.github.io/ramp/ 
<http://newsletters.royalsociety.org/c/1jW4ZO8s3ZvXxowWL0pKFA7W>

If this link delivers an error message, please try pasting it directly 
into your browser or alternatively try:

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research/softmatter/research 
<http://newsletters.royalsociety.org/c/1jW51QSerW6AYxCGi5JUMepp>


Please draw this scheme to the attention of colleagues who may be 
interested.

The online survey form should be filled out as soon as practicable and, 
if at all possible, by 5pm on Thursday 2 April. The survey form will 
cease to operate completely a day or two after that.


Note that RAMP does not address molecular modelling of the virus itself 
or of new antivirals, vaccines, etc. These avenues are already the 
subject of various efforts and initiatives internationally, such as 
http://www.hecbiosim.ac.uk/covid-19 
<http://newsletters.royalsociety.org/c/1jW53TC0PSHepGIpPb44SSGS>

Best wishes

*Venki Ramakrishnan*
President

Professor Nigel Gilbert, CBE, ScD, FREng, FAcSS, Professor of Sociology,
University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483 689173


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