International Conference on Mathematics in Biology
Annual Meeting of The Society for Mathematical Biology

August 3-5, 2000 in Salt Lake City, Utah


Plenary Talk

Bryan Grenfell
Zoology
University of Cambridge


This paper describes recent analyses of pattern and process in the spatio-temporal dynamics of measles. Apart from its public health importance, measles has provided fertile ground for testing ideas in population dynamics over the last 50 years. I consider four basic questions