Dr Thomas House

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I'm an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow in the Warwick Mathematics Institute, with links to WIDER, and Complexity Science (where I sit in D1.01). My research is in the broad area of mathematical epidemiology.

 

Research Interests

I am interested in epidemiology, network theory, numerical probability, public health and inverse problems. I also support development of open-source software for epidemic modelling, in particular EpiStruct.

 

Teaching

I lectured MA390: Topics in Mathematical Biology for the academic years 2010-11 and 2011-12. Handouts and other course materials are available on the course website.

I make a small MATLAB programme available for students (primarily on the Communicable Diseases and Immunisation module of the Warwick Child Health MSc) to investigate the properties of the simple SIR model. Download and extract this ZIP archive, then type:

>> sir_gui

at the MATLAB command prompt when all files are in the working directory.

 

Publications


I try to publish open-access where I can; where that isn't possible I try to make preprints available either here or on the arXiv; but if you can't get any of the papers below and would like to, please email me and I'll send you a preprint.

In peer-reviewed journals:


29. N. J. Inglis, H. Bagnall, K. Janmohamed, S. Suleman, A. Awofisayo, V. De Souza, E. Smit, R. Pebody, H. Mohamed, S. Ibbotson, G. E. Smith, T. House, B. Olowokure, “Measuring the effect of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09: the epidemiological experience in the West Midlands, England during the ‘containment’ phase,” to appear in Epidemiology and Infection.

28. M. Graham and T. House, "Dynamics of stochastic epidemics on heterogeneous networks," to appear in Journal of Mathematical Biology. [link] [arXiv:1304.4763]

27. C. A. Rhodes and T. House, "The rate of convergence to early asymptotic behaviour in age-structured epidemic models," Theoretical Population Biology 85 (2013) 58-62. [link] [arXiv:1303.4201]

26. A. Black, T. House, M.J Keeling, and J. V. Ross, "Epidemiological consequences of household-based antiviral prophylaxis for pandemic influenza," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10:81 (2013) 20121019. [link] (open access)

25. T. House, J. V. Ross and D. Sirl, "How big is an outbreak likely to be? Methods for epidemic final-size calculation," Proceedings of the Royal Society A 469:2150 (2013) 20120436. [link] [supplementary code] (open access)

24. T. House, N. Inglis, J. V. Ross, F. Wilson, S. Suleman, O. Edeghere, G. Smith, B. Olowokure and M. J. Keeling, "Estimation of outbreak severity and transmissibility: Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in households," BMC Medicine 10:117 (2012). [link] (open access) - see also the Commentary on this article.

23. L. Danon, T. House, J. M. Read and M. J. Keeling, "Social encounter networks: collective properties and disease transmission," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9:76 (2012) 2826-2833. [link] (open access)

22. A. J. Sutton, T. House, V. D. Hope, F. Ncube, L. Wiessing and M. Kretzschmar, "Modelling HIV in the injecting drug user population and the male homosexual population in a developed country context," Epidemics. 4:1 (2012) 48-56. [link]

21. T. House, "Lie algebra solution of population models based on time-inhomogeneous Markov chains," Journal of Applied Probability. 49:2 (2012) 472-481. [link] [arXiv:1111.5533].

20. T. House, "Modelling Epidemics on Networks," Contemporary Physics. 53:3 (2012) 213-225. [link] [arXiv:1111.4875].

19. M. Taylor, P. L. Simon, D. M. Green, T. House and I. Z. Kiss, "From Markovian to pairwise epidemic models and the performance of moment closure approximations," Journal of Mathematical Biology. 64:6 (2012) 1021-1042. [link] [Preprint version]

18. T. House, "Modelling behavioural contagion," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8:59 (2011) 909-912. [link] [Preprint version]

17. T. House, M. Baguelin, A. J. van Hoek, P. J. White, Z. Sadique, K. Eames, J. M. Read, N. Hens, A. Melegaro, W. J. Edmunds and M. J. Keeling, "Modelling the impact of local reactive school closures on critical care provision during an influenza pandemic,'' Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:1719 (2011) 2753-2760. [link] (open access)

16. L. Danon, A. P. Ford, T. House, C. P. Jewell, M. J. Keeling, G. O. Roberts, J. V. Ross and M. C. Vernon, "Networks and the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease," (2011) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases 2011:284909 special issue "Network Perspectives on Infectious Disease Dynamics". [link] [arXiv:1011.5950] (open access)

15. T. House and M. J. Keeling, "Epidemic prediction and control in clustered populations," Journal of Theoretical Biology 272:1 (2011) 1-7. [link] [arXiv:1012.1974].

14. T. House and M. J. Keeling, "Insights from unifying modern approximations to infections on networks," Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 8:54 (2011) 67-73. [link] (open access)

13. T. House, "Generalised network clustering and its dynamical implications," Advances in Complex Systems 13:3 (2010) 281-291. [link] [arXiv:1006.4531].

12. M. J. Keeling, L. Danon, M. C. Vernon and T. House, "Individual identity and movement networks for disease metapopulations," PNAS 107:19 (2010) 8866-8870. [link] (open access)

11. T. House and M. J. Keeling, "The impact of contact tracing in clustered populations," PLoS Computational Biology 6:3 (2010) e1000721. [link] (open access)

10. J. V. Ross, T. House and M. J. Keeling, "Calculation of disease dynamics in a population of households," PLoS ONE 5:3 (2010) e9666. [link] (open access)

9. T. House, I. Hall, L. Danon and M. J. Keeling, "Contingency planning for a deliberate release of smallpox in Great Britain - the role of geographical scale and contact structure," BMC Infectious Diseases 10:25 (2010). [link] (open access)

8. M. Tidlesley, T. House, M. Bruhn, R. Curry, M. O'Neill, G. Smith and M. J. Keeling, "The impact of spatial clustering on disease transmission and optimal control," PNAS 107:3 (2010) 1041-1046. [link]

7. L. Danon, T. House and M. J. Keeling, "The role of routine versus random movements on the spread of disease in Great Britain," Epidemics 1:4 (2009) 250-258. [link]

6. T. House, G. Davies, L. Danon and M. J. Keeling, "A motif-based approach to network epidemics," Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 71 (2009) 1693-1706. [link] (open access)

5. T. House and M. J. Keeling, "UK household structure and Infectious Disease Transmission," Epidemiology and Infection 137 (2009) 654-661. [link] (open access) [PDF]

4. T. House and M. J. Keeling, "Deterministic epidemic models with explicit household structure," Mathematical Biosciences 213 (2008) 29-39. [link] [Preprint version]

3. T. House and E. Palti, "Effective action of (massive) IIA on manifolds with SU(3) structure," Physical Review D 72 (2005) 026004. [link] [arXiv:hep-th/0505177]

2. T. House and A. Micu, "M-Theory compactifications on manifolds with G(2) structure," Classical and Quantum Gravity 22 (2005) 1709-1738. [link] [arXiv:hep-th/0412006]

1. T. House and A. Lukas, "G(2) domain walls in M-theory," Physical Review D 71 (2005) 046006. [link] [arXiv:hep-th/0409114]

Other publications:


(v) M. J. Keeling, M. Tildesley, T. House and L. Danon, "The Mathematics of Vaccination," Mathematics Today 49:1 (2013) 40-43.

(iv) T. House (2010), "Exact epidemic dynamics for generally clustered, complex networks". [arXiv:1006.3483]

(iii) T. House et. al. (2009), "Can Reactive School Closures help critical care provision during the current influenza pandemic?" PLoS Currents Influenza. [link]

(ii) T. House, G. Davies, L. Danon and M. J. Keeling, "Complex network structure and transmission dynamics," Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (2009). [link to programme]

(i) T. House, "Aspects of Flux Compactification," DPhil thesis, University of Sussex (2005). [PDF]

Events and Responsibilities

Warwick Mathematics Institute
University of Warwick
Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry
CV4 7AL

Tel: 024 7615 0862

T.A.House@warwick.ac.uk

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