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The 6 Cs – Covid and the 5 Claremont Colleges (Prof. Maryann E. Hohn)
March 23, 2022 @ 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Title: The 6 Cs – Covid and the 5 Claremont Colleges
Speaker: Maryann E. Hohn, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Pomona College
Abstract: The Claremont Colleges’ (5Cs) environment consists of students, faculty, and staff that congregate together in indoor spaces, creating a higher risk for possible COVID-19 infection. Additionally, a majority of the students live on campus, presenting a relatively closed campus environment that limits students’ interactions with their greater community. However, the close knit quarters in which students live may contribute to a rise in infections that may ultimately reach other more vulnerable populations on the campuses such as faculty and staff.
In this talk, we present several models of COVID-19 spread at the 5Cs. We start with an early model consisting of several interconnected modified SEIR differential equations to investigate the dynamics between different populations at the 5Cs and the influence of mitigation techniques such as students adhering to health protocols and contact tracing. With the addition of vaccines, we show how the model changed, how student researchers are contributing to our models, and how a few students created their own.
