Welcome to SWIM, the South-West German Infectious Disease Modelling Workshop.

 

Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University.

Tuesday 9 December 2025, 10:30 - 17:00.

 

About

SWIM is an informal and community-organized one-day meeting bringing together disease modellers, epidemiologists and biostatisticians from Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland-Pfalz and neighbouring regions. We want to foster exchange and give especially early-career researchers the opportunity to share their work in a friendly atmosphere.

The workshop is inspired by (though smaller than) the Smiddy and HKMetrics meetings.

Programme

Invited talks

The focus topic for the invited sessions is Mathematical Modelling and Public Health Decision Making. Confirmed speakers include:

• Sebastian Funk (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London)

Contributed talks

The remaining sessions are open to all aspects of dynamic and statistical modelling of infectious diseases, both theoretical and applied. Check out the 2024 edition to get an idea of the format and scope. See below for details on submission.

Signing up / proposing a talk or poster

You can register for participation via this form. Participation is free of charge and includes a vegetarian lunch as well as coffee and snacks. Unfortunately we cannot offer any financial support for travel fees. The workshop is also open to participants based outside of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz. Registration is possible until 15 November 2025.

Due to the small size of the workshop, submission of talks and poster is done via simple email. Please copy and complete the form below, and send it to contact@swim-workshop.de. Submission is open until 30 October 2025.

Click to show submission form, to be sent by email.

Subject: Submission SWIM 2025
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Registration and submission of contributions are independent, so please fill in the registration form in any case.

Organizers

The workshop is organized by Barbora Němcová, Joacim Rocklöv, Johannes Bracher and Luise Nottmeyer.

If you have any questions please contact us at contact@swim-workshop.de.

Sponsors

We are thankful for financial support by the Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health.