Melbourne Maths and Science Meetup

Last night I gave a talk about Mathematical models of infectious disease transmission (slides) at the Melbourne Maths and Science Meetup. I used my stochastic SIR demo to simulate disease outbreaks amongst the audience — each audience member was assigned a unique number and had to stand up while they were infectious — and it's definitely something I'd like to try in a classroom setting. I was asked very good and challenging questions throughout the talk, and on several occasions my reply was "that's a great question, and I'll talk about that a bit later on". It was a fun night and a chance to meet some great people! Now I'm looking forward to being in the audience at their next event.