University 113 Spring 2005

ML 251 Tu-Th: 2:30-3:50 PM

Technological Disasters and Catastrophes

"If anything can go wrong, it will."

Murphy's Law

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General Disaster Sites

Piper Alpha

Challenger

Columbia

Nuclear Power

Chernobyl

Three Mile Island

Financial Disaster

The Spread of AIDS

Tsunami

Antibiotics

Biology of retroviruses

Animation of the life-cycle of a retrovirus

Wikopedia on retroviruses.

Diagram of a retrovirus

Retrovirus replication

Two pdf papers by Prof. James Thompson of the Statistics Department.

James Thompson model calculations

A Modelers Odyssey

AIDS in Africa

CNN story

Infection rates in Africa