Seminar / Workshop
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Bistability and complex dynamics generated by waning and boosting of immunity
EPIMAT
23 April 2025, start time 16:30 - 17:30
PovoZero, Via Sommarive 14, Povo (Trento)
Seminar Room "1"
Free
Organizer: Dipartimento di Matematica
Target audience: Students, UniTrento faculty
Referent: Cinzia Soresina e Andrea Pugliese
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Speaker: Francesca Scarabel (University of Leeds)
I will discuss some recent analyses of infectious disease models with waning of immunity and waning-boosting of immunity, when the disease parameters depend on time since infection. The analyses show emergence of oscillations for particular shapes of the disease parameters, and the existence of regions of parameters where a stable endemic equilibrium coexists with a stable periodic solution, or two stable periodic solutions coexist.