Auld DQs

This paper is a bit hard going, mathematically. See how far you can get, but mainly try to get the gist of the interaction between behavioral and epidemic dynamics. Do you buy the argument, in general? Try to distinguish between behavioral responses to information about the current environment (worse = you should be more careful) and information about future environments (worse future = heavy discounting = get it while you can).

Anderson and May

I know this paper is old, but it covers a lot of the basic ideas of HIV epidemiology and illustrates some of the ways of estimating parameters from data. Comments/questions please. Along with your question, also please provide a tentative idea for a project on dynamics -- the easiest things would be to work on an aspect of HIV dynamics in vivo or an epidemiological project, but you are also welcome to work on a topic from any area of biology, provided that it seems feasible to set up a simple model in Excel within the time frame of a few weeks (project presentations in class on October 21). You will be working in groups of 2 to 4.