UCSB Faculty members, guest speakers, and experts from the Santa Barbara community presented lecture sessions on a variety of facets and insights into the COVID-19 pandemic, and its implications across a range of areas. Sessions convened Tuesdays throughout the Spring, 2020 quarter and beyond via Zoom webinar system. Individual speakers addressed these topics on the following dates:
April 14: SARS-CoV2: The Virus and the Disease
April 21: Current Epidemiological Models: Scientific Basis and Evaluation
April 28: Coping with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty of COVID-19 Datasets
- Yu-Xiang Wang, PhD and Ambuj Singh, PhD
- Watch the webinar recording here
- Prof Wang's and Singh's presentation slides
May 5: Economic Aspects of the Crisis: Labor Markets During Pandemics
May 12: Social Scientific Insights: Attitudes, Policies, and Coping with the Crisis
May 19: Climate Effects on the Virus, Diagnosis Criteria, and a New Testing Procedure
- Kyle Meng, PhD, Carolina Arias Gonzalez, PhD, and Lynn N. Fitzgibbons, MD
- Watch the webinar recording here
May 26: COVID-19: Analytics and Modeling for Prevention
June 2: COVID-19: Interventions, Impacts, and Consequences
June 9: County Health Update and Health Equity Efforts
June 16: The Crisis' Effects on Business and Journalism in Santa Barbara
- Bill Macfadyen, Founder and Publisher of Noozhawk, Kristen Miller, President/CEO of Santa Barbara and Goleta Chamber of Commerce, and Chris Chiarappa, local restauranteur and business partner
- Watch the webinar recording here
June 23: COVID-19: Understanding the Disease Through Data
- John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, and Luca Foschini, PhD
- Prof Ioannidis' presentation slides
- Watch the webinar recording here
June 30: COVID-19: Analysis of Trends and Transportation Patterns
- UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang, PhD, Xifeng Yan, PhD, and Kostas Goulias, PhD
- Prof Yan's presentation slides
- Watch the webinar recording here
Although the series ended June 30, 2020, we encourage you to sign up to receive updates by email about possible future sessions as events may prompt.
You may also be interested in any number of videos from other University of California campuses related to COVID-19, from lectures about infectious diseases to programs about healthcare, family dynamics and schooling during quarantine, political and economic impacts, and university administration responses to the pandemic, on UCTV.
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