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<td>[SIMSOC] Urgent call for modellers to support epidemic
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<td>Nigel Gilbert
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333132;background:white">The
Royal Society is coordinating a call for Rapid Assistance in
Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP).</span><span
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<span style="background:white">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.</span><br>
<span style="background:white"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333132">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.<br>
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Full details of the scheme, with an online form to volunteer
on behalf of your research group can be found here:<br>
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<a
href="http://newsletters.royalsociety.org/c/1jW4ZO8s3ZvXxowWL0pKFA7W"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://epcced.github.io/ramp/</a><br>
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it directly into your browser or alternatively try:<br>
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<a
href="http://newsletters.royalsociety.org/c/1jW51QSerW6AYxCGi5JUMepp"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research/softmatter/research</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Please draw this scheme to the attention of colleagues who
may be interested.<br>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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 <a
href="http://newsletters.royalsociety.org/c/1jW53TC0PSHepGIpPb44SSGS"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.hecbiosim.ac.uk/covid-19</a><br>
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Best wishes<br>
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<strong><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Venki
Ramakrishnan</span></strong><br>
President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Professor
Nigel Gilbert, CBE, ScD, FREng, FAcSS, Professor of
Sociology, <br>
University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483
689173</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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