ELLIS against Covid-19

cyvy cyvy-old ellis 22 April 2020 - 22 April 2020 Covid Workshop

22 April 2020 • 13:30 -

The world is facing a public health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. We all need to take this on, and science can make a major contribution. This online workshop will present projects on how to tackle Covid-19 using methods of machine learning and AI, carried out by leading international researchers.

Agenda

* Speakers and talk titles are subject to change

* All times in Central European Summer Time (CEST)

Time	Session
1:30pm 1:35pm	Introduction Sepp Hochreiter
1:35pm - 2:20pm	Epidemiology & modeling Peter Grünwald (10 min): The BCG CORONA and BCG-CORONA-ELDERLY Clinical Trials. Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori (10 min): Learning the Dynamic SIR Model: An Optimal Control Approach Johannes Zierenberg (10 min): Inferring COVID-19 spreading rates and potential change points for case number forecasts Questions & discussion (15 min)
2:20pm - 3:05pm	Data, privacy and ML challenges Antti Honkela (10 min): Privacy-preserving contact statistics collection for COVID-19 epidemic management Thomas M. Hermans and Andre Loesekrug-Pietri (5 min): The JEDI Grand Challenge Kostas Kavoussanakis (5 min): Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) Rolf Apweiler (10 min): The European COVID-19 Research Data Platform Questions & discussion (15 min)
3:05pm - 3:30pm	Images Victoria Schpacovitch, Katharina Morik (10 min): Resource optimising real-time analysis of artifactious image sequences for the detection of nano-objects Plamen Angelov (5 min): COVID-19 CT Scan Classification via Explainable Deep Learning Questions & discussion (10 min)
3:30pm - 3:35pm	Concluding discussion