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Using Milankovitch Cycles to create high-resolution astrochronologies

November 30, 2020

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AIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 6

August 2, 2020

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Professor Christopher K.R.T. Jones — Recipient of the 2020 MPE Prize


Professor Chris Jones is the Bill Guthridge Distinguished Professor in Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN). The 2020 MPE Prize recognizes Professor Jones for his many significant contributions to climate science and the mathematics of planet Earth.

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A Thematic Semester on “Biodiversity and Evolution”

Biodiversity, Workshop Report
Posted on December 16, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A thematic semester on “Biodiversity and Evolution” recently ended at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal. It was packed with activities, drawing both mathematicians and biologists to a stimulating exchange of recent results, methodologies and open problems.
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Mathematical Modeling and Haemostasis

Biology
Posted on December 13, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Since the late 19th century until today many important breakthroughs have been made in the research of haemostatic mechanism, leading to an excellent understanding of all of the related individual systems—the vascular system, blood cells, the coagulation pathways, and fibrinolysis. Continue reading →

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Workshop “Celestial, Molecular, and Atomic Dynamics” (CEMAD-2013)

Workshop Report
Posted on December 9, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A workshop on “Celestial, Molecular, and Atomic Dynamics” (CEMAD-2013) was held at the University of Victoria, Canada, 29 July-2 August, 2013. The workshop was sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and the University of Victoria, and … Continue reading →

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Sustainable Development and Utilization of Mineral Resources

Optimization, Resource Management
Posted on December 6, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The sustainable development and utilization of mineral resources and reserves is an area of critical importance to society given the fast growth and demand of new emerging economies and environmental and social concerns. Continue reading →

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Kickoff of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013-Plus (MPE 2013+)

Workshop Announcement
Posted on December 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

MPE 2013+, which extends MPE2013 into the future, is kicking off in January with a workshop, Mathematics of Planet Earth: Challenges and Opportunities – Introducing Participants to MPE 2013+ Topics, which will be held at Arizona State University January 7-10, 2014. The workshop aims to expose students and junior researchers to the challenges facing our planet, the role of the mathematical sciences in addressing those challenges, and the opportunities to get involved in the effort. Continue reading →

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Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics through the Lens of Model Systems

Atmosphere, Climate Modeling, Ocean
Posted on November 29, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The atmosphere and ocean are central components of the climate system, where each of these components is affected by numerous significant factors through highly nonlinear relationships. It would be impossible to combine all of the important interactions into a single model. Therefore, determining the contribution of each factor, in both a quantitative and qualitative sense, is necessary for the development of a predictive model, not to mention a better understanding, of the climate system. Continue reading →

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Life on the Edge – Mathematical Insights Yield Better Solar Cells

Mathematics, Renewable Energy
Posted on November 27, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 2 comments

Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending the Third Annual Mitacs Awards ceremony in Ottawa. These awards recognize the outstanding R&D innovation achievements of the interns supported by the various Mitacs programs—Accelerate, Elevate and Globalink. This year, I was particularly inspired by the story of the winner of the undergraduate award category. Continue reading →

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Mathematics Can Improve Seismic Risk Protection

Geophysics, Natural Disasters
Posted on November 19, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Mathematical and numerical modeling can be used to better understand the physics of earthquakes, improve the design of site-specific structures and facilities, and enhance seismic-risk maps. Continue reading →

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(Big) Data Science Meets Climate Science

Climate Modeling, Data Assimilation, Workshop Announcement
Posted on November 18, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Atmospheric Circulation Pattern Internet advertisers and the National Security Agency are not the only ones dealing with the “data deluge” lately. Scientists, too, have access to unprecedented amounts of data, both historical and real-time data from around the world. Continue reading →

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Understanding the Big Bang Singularity

Astrophysics, Dynamical Systems
Posted on November 15, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

If you want to understand the planet Earth, then why not go back to the beginning of the Universe? The big bang is an event that we do not understand. It is thought to have happened about 13.75 billion years ago. What occurred, as we understand it, is mind blowing. Continue reading →

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Sustainability of Aquatic Ecosystem Networks

Ecology, Workshop Report
Posted on November 8, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The AARMS-CRM workshop on Sustainability of Aquatic Ecosystem Networks was held at the Fredericton Inn in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, from October 22-25. This workshop was the 10th in a series of 11 workshops in the pan-Canadian MPE thematic program on Models and Methods in Epidemiology, Ecology and Public Health. Continue reading →

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MPE Issue of the College Mathematics Journal of the MAA

General
Posted on November 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The November issue of “The College Mathematics Journal” is a special theme issue supporting the Mathematics of Planet Earth initiative, MPE 2013. Continue reading →

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SAMSI Workshop – Dynamics of Seismicity, Earthquake Clustering and Patterns in Fault Networks

Geophysics, Statistics, Workshop Report
Posted on October 30, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Despite considerable research, earthquake dynamics remains one of the major challenges in geophysics. A recent workshop on Dynamics of Seismicity, Earthquake Clustering and Patterns in Fault Networks at SAMSI in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, was organized to achieve progress in this field. Continue reading →

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Extracting Boats in Harbors from High-resolution Satellite Images

Imaging
Posted on October 29, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Do you know that over 50 satellites are launched every year to orbit the Earth? Have you ever wondered what the purpose of those satellites is? Here is one of them!
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Mathematical Modeling and Leukemia

Disease Modeling, Dynamical Systems
Posted on October 25, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A group of mathematicians, biologists and hematologists from Romania is developing new mathematical models of leukemia, with the goal to help the medical community better understand the disease and develop adequate treatment routines. Since for a certain patient, the evolution of the disease strongly depends on the features of his/her disease (or on specific parameters – mathematically speaking), these treatment strategies should be adapted to the patient characteristics. Continue reading →

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Fields Institute: Focus Program on Commodities, Energy and Environmental Finance

Energy, Finance, Risk Analysis, Sustainability, Workshop Report
Posted on October 17, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

During August 2013, the Fields Institute in Toronto hosted a Focus Program on Commodities, Energy and Environmental Finance. The Focus Program addressed the interaction of markets and environment, including such MPE themes as sustainable development, effective risk management of weather events, and the role of finance in the production and consumption of energy. Continue reading →

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ICERM Workshop “From the Clinic to Partial Differential Equations and Back: Emerging Challenges for Cardiovascular Mathematics”

Workshop Announcement
Posted on October 16, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

In recent years, there have been great advances in mathematical and computational modeling of cardiovascular phenomena. The ultimate goal is to develop predictive mathematical tools that can be used in medical decision-making and treatment. Continue reading →

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How Applied Mathematics Can Help Money Grow on Trees

Finance, Optimization, Resource Management
Posted on October 15, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

A Berkeley graduate student, George Dantzig, was late for class. He scribbled down two problems from the blackboard and handed in solutions a few days later. But the problems on the board were not homework assignments; they were two famous unsolved problems in statistics. The solutions earned Dantzig his PhD. Continue reading →

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Understanding Earth’s Past Climate: How the Mathematical Sciences Can Help to Inform the Debate on Climate Change

Paleoclimate, Statistics
Posted on October 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

What is the relationship between temperature measurements and greenhouse gas emissions, and what do these relationships tell us about the sensitivity of climate to increased greenhouse gas concentrations? How can historical temperature measurements inform this understanding? Continue reading →

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Modeling the Evolution of Ancient Societies

Social Systems
Posted on October 3, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply
 

Another mathematical modeling success is highlighted in a September 23, 2013, Science News story that describes the evolution of ancient complex societies. One interesting fact reported is that intense warfare is the evolutionary driver of complex societies. Continue reading →

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Frontiers in Imaging, Mathematics, and the Life Sciences

Imaging, Workshop Announcement
Posted on October 2, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

As society increasingly benefits from the various types and uses of imaging, there is a growing need to integrate imaging data across modalities and to develop new imaging techniques. Not surprisingly, the mathematical sciences—mathematics, statistics, and computational science—all play a role in this growing area. Continue reading →

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Simons Public Lecture by Professor L. Mahadevan

Public Event
Posted on September 30, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

On September 24, 2013, I had the pleasure of attending the seventh in the nine-lecture
MPE2013 Simons Public Lecture Series. The talk was held on the beautiful
campus of Brown University in Providence, and was attended by nearly 600
people, including entire bus-loads of high school students. Continue reading →

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New Ways to the Moon, Origin of the Moon, and Origin of Life on Earth

Transportation
Posted on September 27, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

The field of celestial mechanics is an old one, going back to 90 AD when Claudius Ptolemy sought to describe the motions of the planets. However, the modern field of celestial mechanics goes back to the 1700s when Joseph-Louis Lagrange … Continue reading →

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Scientific Research on Sustainability and Its Impact on Policy and Management

Ecology, Resource Management, Sustainability
Posted on September 24, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

I recently had the opportunity to lecture on “Aquaculture and Sustainability of Coastal Ecosystems” at the NSF-funded Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) in Columbus, Ohio. The MBI focuses on different theme programs; in the fall of 2013 the theme program is … Continue reading →

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ICMS Workshop: Early Warning Signs of Tipping

Complex Systems, Mathematics, Tipping Phenomena
Posted on September 23, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

In a previous post, Kaitlin gave a great overview of the recent ICMS Tipping Points workshop. Today we will continue that conversation with a detailed look at efforts to understand and detect early warning signs of tipping. Continue reading →

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Musings on Summer Travel

General, Transportation
Posted on September 20, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Thanks to the affordability of air travel nowadays, an increasing number of us have the opportunity to visit exotic locations around the globe. Continue reading →

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Math for Weather, Bacteria, Aircraft

Biology, Mathematics, Weather
Posted on September 19, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Interested in the role of mathematics in predicting the weather or how bacteria adapt or designing aircraft? Continue reading →

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MPE-themed Issue of “Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde”

General
Posted on September 17, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

What is a wave attractor? How can we “see” below the Earth’s surface while staying above ground? And what does desertification have to do with balloons? These and other topics are discussed in the September 2013 issue of the Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (NAW, translated as “New Archive for Mathematics”), the quarterly journal of the Royal Mathematical Society of the Netherlands. The NAW is aimed at a broad audience: anyone professionally involved in mathematics, whether as an academic or industrial researcher, student, teacher, journalist or decision maker. Continue reading →

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ICMS Tipping Points Workshop

Climate, Workshop Report
Posted on September 16, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

This past week, the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) hosted a workshop in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The workshop brought together an international group of mathematicians, statisticians, climate scientists, and ecologists to address the topic of tipping points. Continue reading →

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The Need for a Theory of Climate

Climate Modeling
Posted on September 13, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

At the end of August, Nature Climate Change published an interesting paper showing that current global climate models tend to significantly overestimate the warming observed in the last two decades. A few months earlier, Science published a paper showing that four top-level global climate models, when run on a planet with no orography and entirely covered with water (an “aqua-planet”), produce cloud and precipitation patterns which are dramatically different from one model to another. Continue reading →

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Probability Measures and Vortex Dynamics

Mathematics
Posted on September 12, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

On March 18, 1999, a small aircraft crashed near St. Louis, and the ensuing FAA investigation concluded that the crash was caused by wake turbulence from a helicopter that had just landed ahead of the plane. Continue reading →

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Ocean Acidification and Phytoplankton

Biosphere, Inverse Problems, Ocean
Posted on September 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The health of the world’s oceans has been in the news a lot over the last few months. Recent reports suggest that the oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide at unprecedented rates. The ocean is the dominant player in the global carbon cycle, and the sequestering of more carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, sounds like a good thing. However, researchers have measured significant increases in ocean acidity, and they worry this will have a negative impact on marine life, especially phytoplankton. Continue reading →

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Collective Animal Behavior

Biosphere, Mathematics, Patterns
Posted on August 30, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Observing collective phenomena such as the movement of a flock of birds, a school of fish, or a migrating population of ungulates is a source of fascination because of the mystery behind the spontaneous formation of the aggregating behavior and the apparent cohesiveness of the movements. However, they can also be the cause of a major environmental and social problem when one thinks, for example, of the flight of a swarm of voracious locusts ravaging crops in various parts of the world and putting many communities under severe stress. Continue reading →

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Dynamic Programming for Optimal Control Problems in Economics

Economics
Posted on August 29, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Here we consider the optimal control theory of infinite dimensional systems that has recently found interesting applications in theoretical economics so that economic models can be made more realistic. Continue reading →

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A Feast of Celestial Mechanics

Computational Science, Mathematics, Workshop Report
Posted on August 28, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

While I am a pure mathematician working in dynamical systems, I have always been fascinated by the mathematics of the N-body problem and its applications to celestial mechanics in general, and to the Solar system in particular. Continue reading →

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Climate Science without Climate Models

Climate, Extreme Events, Probability, Statistics
Posted on August 27, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

In June 2012, more than 3,000 daily maximum temperature records were broken or tied in the United States, according to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Meteorologists commented at that time that this number was very unusual. By comparison, in June 2013, only about 1,200 such records were broken or tied. Was that number “normal”? Continue reading →

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Patterns on Earth

Biosphere, Mathematics, Patterns
Posted on August 23, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

A recurrent idea in science is that the loss of stability of an equilibrium position through diffusion can lead to the creation of patterns. The idea goes back to Turing in his famous 1952 paper “On the chemical basis of morphogenesis,” which proposes a model for morphogenesis through chemical reaction-diffusion. Continue reading →

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Gaussian Beams

Energy, Imaging, Mathematics
Posted on August 22, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

What do bats and oil companies have in common? Both use active sensing methods (echolocation) in pursuit of their objectives—dinner or oil reserves. Recently, the method of Gaussian beams has become a promising alternative for asymptotic solutions to the wave equations in place of the traditional methods based on geometric optics for finding approximate short-time solutions. Continue reading →

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The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions

Biology, Ecology, Epidemiology
Posted on August 15, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

When asked to give an invited lecture at the first ever Mathematical Congress of the Americas, I jumped at the chance. This would be an opportunity to meet new colleagues from the Americas and to share my interest in mathematical ecology. Continue reading →

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Mathematics and Sustainability – A Trio of Autumn Workshops

Mathematics, Sustainability, Workshop Announcement
Posted on July 10, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

In support of worldwide MPE2013 efforts, NSF’s Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at Ohio State University is hosting three autumn workshops aimed at the interface of mathematics and the science of sustainability. Continue reading →

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Fire Season

Data Visualization, Meteorology, Natural Disasters, Weather
Posted on July 8, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

“It’s fire season in the forests and wildlands of America.” So began an article by Barry Cipra (“Fighting Fire with Data’). I recalled this article after hearing about the tragic events in the forest fires in Arizona earlier this week, Continue reading →

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How Much for My Ton of CO2?

Economics, Energy, Political Systems
Posted on July 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Mathematics analyzes numerous aspects of financial markets and financial instruments. For the markets trading CO2 emissions, mathematics is used to decide how cap and trade rules will operate. Continue reading →

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Talking Across Fields

Data Assimilation, Epidemiology, Mathematics, Social Systems, Statistics
Posted on July 2, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The AIM workshop on exponential random network models was an experiment, bringing together people in applied social sciences, biologists, statisticians, and mathematicians who are interested in the emerging field of graph limit theory. Continue reading →

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Predicting the Unpredictable – Human Behaviors and Beyond

Mathematics, Social Systems
Posted on June 28, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

No matter how surprising, outlandish, or even impossible it may seem, one of the next challenges of modern applied mathematics is the modeling of human behaviors. Continue reading →

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KAM Theory and Celestial Mechanics

Astrophysics, Mathematics
Posted on June 24, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Is the Earth’s orbit stable? Will the Moon always point the same face to our planet? Will some asteroid collide with the Earth? Continue reading →

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Networks in the Study of Culture and Society

Political Systems, Social Systems
Posted on June 21, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The use of computational methods to explore complex social and cultural phenomena is growing ever more common. Continue reading →

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The Mystery of Vegetation Patterns

Biosphere, Mathematics, Patterns
Posted on June 20, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 4 comments

Vegetation patterns are a mysterious phenomenon that we can think about in the same way as patterns that form in many other contexts. What’s more, they may have importance that transcends their beauty. Continue reading →

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The Social Cost of Carbon

Climate Modeling, Economics, Social Systems
Posted on June 18, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

What exactly is the definition of the “social cost of carbon” (SCC)? Who is interested in determining this quantity? Who is interested in its value? Can this even be done and, if so, how accurately? Continue reading →

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Königsberg’s bridges, Holland’s dikes, and Wall Street’s downfall

Mathematics, Risk Analysis, Statistics
Posted on June 14, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

As a large crowd gathered at CRM on Friday evening, May 10, to hear Paul Embrechts, Professor of Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ), everyone was wondering how he would connect “Königsberg’s bridges, Holland’s dikes, and Wall Street’s downfall.” Continue reading →

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Blog on Math Blogs

General, Mathematics, Statistics
Posted on June 13, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Today’s blog is a short blog about a “Blog on Math Blogs.” Continue reading →

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The Sphere of the Earth at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon

Mathematics, Public Event
Posted on June 7, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, has added several new and significant displays to the exhibition “Forms and Formulas” in the framework of the Portuguese activities for MPE2013. Highlight is the winning entry of the MPE2013 competition, “The Sphere of the Earth,” an interactive module created by Daniel Ramos (Spain). Continue reading →

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Random Networks and the Spread of HIV

Epidemiology, Mathematics, Public Health
Posted on June 6, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

Martina Morris, a Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Washington, studies the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV using network analysis. Continue reading →

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Fighting Crime with Numbers

Data Visualization, Social Systems
Posted on June 3, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

UCLA Professor Andrea Bertozzi is applying the powerful tools of mathematics and big data analysis for mapping crime patterns – with implications for crime prevention. Continue reading →

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Modeling the Progression and Propagation of Infectious Diseases

Disease Modeling, Mathematics
Posted on June 2, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Two recent articles, written for a general audience, provide examples from the applied mathematics literature that show how mathematics is used to model and understand the progression and propagation of certain kinds of infections. Continue reading →

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INdAM Workshop “Mathematical Models and Methods for Planet Earth”

Conference Report, Mathematics
Posted on June 1, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

The workshop “Mathematical Models and Methods for Planet Earth,” organized by the Italian National Institute for Advanced Mathematics (INdAM) under the auspices of MPE2013 in Rome, May 27-29, finished a few days ago. Continue reading →

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The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions — An MPE Event

Ecology, Mathematics, Workshop Announcement
Posted on May 31, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is organizing a Mathematical Biology Summer School at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, May 27-June 14, 2013, on “The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions.”
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Mathematics shines some light on the growing markets for solar renewable certificates

Economics, Finance, Renewable Energy
Posted on May 27, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

In recent years, governments around the world have experimented with many different policy tools to encourage the growth of renewable energy. Continue reading →

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INdAM Workshop — “Mathematical models and methods for Planet Earth”

Mathematics, Workshop Announcement
Posted on May 25, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The Italian National Institute of Advanced Mathematics (INdAM) is organizing a Workshop “Mathematical models and methods for Planet Earth” in Rome, Italy, on May 27-29, 2013. Continue reading →

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SAMSI Undergraduate Workshop — Predicting the 2013 Hurricane Season Using Real Data

Natural Disasters, Statistics, Weather, Workshop Report
Posted on May 22, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

During the week of May 13, 2013, thirty-four students from around the United States attended the Statistical and Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) Undergraduate Modeling Workshop. Continue reading →

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Using Mathematics to Understand, Detect, and Predict Biological Events in Our Water Systems

Biology, Data Assimilation, Mathematics
Posted on May 20, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

In coastal ocean, estuary, and lake systems, there is much interest in understanding, detecting, and predicting biological events. Continue reading →

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Neglected Tropical Diseases — and how mathematics can help

Disease Modeling, Mathematics, Public Health
Posted on May 18, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

“Neglected Tropical Diseases” isn’t just a generic title for all the forgotten diseases in the world; it’s a specific designation on behalf of the World Health Organization for 13 particular diseases that qualify for neglected status. Collectively, these diseases infect about one sixth of the world’s population. Continue reading →

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AIM Workshop: Nonhomogeneous boundary-value problems for nonlinear waves

Mathematics, Workshop Report
Posted on May 16, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

This week at AIM features a MPE related workshop concerned with boundary-value problems for nonlinear dispersive evolution equations and systems. The workshop has participants with diverse interests in both the pure and applied aspects of such problems. Continue reading →

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Low Fuel Spacecraft Trajectories to the Moon

Astrophysics, Mathematics
Posted on May 14, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

There is widespread interest in finding and designing spacecraft trajectories to the Moon, Mars, other planets, or other celestial bodies (comets, asteroids), which require as little fuel as possible. Continue reading →

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Discontinuous Pressure in Coupled Flows

Geophysics, Mathematics
Posted on May 13, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Pressure is an important property of fluid flow, and it is known that the pressure changes continuously in the fluid domain. In the coupling of flows of different nature, however, the situation can be more complicated and discontinuities may appear in the pressure field. Continue reading →

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Another Applied Mathematician in Antarctica

Biodiversity, Cryosphere, General
Posted on May 6, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

I recently had the opportunity to travel to the Antarctic peninsula on board the National Geographic Explorer. We departed out of Ushuaia, Argentina, crossed the Drake Passage and spent the better part of a week exploring the northwestern side of the Antarctic peninsula from the South Shetland Islands to just inside the Antarctic Circle in Crystal Sound. Continue reading →

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Brinicles and Chemical Gardens

Biogeochemistry, Cryosphere, General
Posted on May 3, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Brinicles are fun things to think about, but they also have broader implications. On one hand, as heat flows through them, they contribute to the energy balance in the ice pack around Antarctica. On the other hand, brinicles may have played a role in the beginnings of life on the early Earth. Continue reading →

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More about E.O. Wilson’s Story “Great Scientist > Good at Math”

Biology, Evolution, General, Mathematics
Posted on May 2, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Today’s blog is an update on a story that was in the news earlier and also some comments on a recent article in the New York Review of Books. (See the blog of 4.11.2013.)
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Flow through heterogeneous porous rocks: What average is the correct average?

Geophysics, Mathematics
Posted on April 29, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

How fast does water flow through sand or soil? Maybe not so fast, but everyone has seen water soak into beach sand and garden soils. Most people have also noticed a concrete sidewalk soaking up a little water as rain begins to come down. But how fast does water flow through a rock? Continue reading →

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“Sustainability Improves Student Learning (SISL) in STEM”

General, Mathematics, Sustainability, Workshop Report
Posted on April 26, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

How precarious is the existence of the Monarch butterfly? Does personal diet affect the environment? What are the consequences of increased human life expectancy? Continue reading →

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Raspberry Fields Forever (cont’d)

Mathematics, Resource Management, Sustainable Development
Posted on April 25, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Our team had begun our initial work on what we call the “berry problem”, and I was able to describe our efforts to help stakeholders in the Pajaro Valley region in California balance water needs among competing interests. Continue reading →

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The Mathematics behind Green Buildings


Energy, Mathematics
Posted on April 24, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply



Most buildings more than 20 years old are energy “hogs.” They take a lot of energy to heat in the winter, and they take a lot of energy to cool in the summer. The benefits of saving energy in buildings are enormous. Continue reading →

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Mathematical Modeling of Alternative Energy Systems: An Example of How Academic Mathematicians Can Contribute to the World

Energy, Mathematics
Posted on April 22, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Hydrogen fuel cells are of interest as an alternative energy technology. They are electrochemical systems that combine hydrogen and oxygen (from air) to produce electrical energy. They have potential for use in many applications, including automotive, stationary power and small-scale power for mobile electronics. Continue reading →

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National Environmental Education Week, Green Ribbon Schools, and Earth Day

General, Sustainable Development
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

This week (April 14-20) is National Environmental Education Week. Monday April 22 is Earth Day! On that day, the U.S. Department of Education will announce the winners of the second annual Green Ribbon School awards. Continue reading →

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Raspberry Fields Forever

Mathematics, Resource Management, Sustainable Development
Posted on April 18, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 2 comments

In January of 2011, AIM held a Sustainability Problems workshop, with the goal of bringing together mathematicians and industry representatives to work on a variety of sustainability problems, including renewable energy, air quality, water management, and other environmental issues. Continue reading →

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Math-to-Bio? Yes, but also Bio-to-Math!

Biology, General, Mathematics
Posted on April 17, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

An exciting aspect of the relationship between mathematics and biology is the potential — the expectation even — that biology will provide the impetus for new mathematics, and that the feedback loop between mathematics and biology will be at least as influential and exciting as the one mathematics and physics has enjoyed for over 2000 years.
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Extreme Weather Event

Climate, General, Statistics, Weather
Posted on April 15, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

It was unusually warm and windy for early April. We piled into the toasty lecture hall with drinks and sandwich wraps in hand. Dr. Smith, with his shock of white hair and the thin frame of a marathon runner, shed his sport jacket as he recounted the 2003 European heat wave. Continue reading →

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The Interplay Between Mathematical Models, Massive Data Sets, and Climate Science

Carbon Cycle, Climate Modeling
Posted on April 14, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Mathematical modeling and data analysis play a critical role in the mathematics of Planet Earth. Continue reading →

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Next Generation Science Standards

General
Posted on April 12, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

The Next Generation Science Standards have just been released. They propose that climate change be an integral part of science education starting already in middle school. Continue reading →

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“Great Scientist > Good at Math”

Biology, General, Mathematics
Posted on April 11, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an essay by E.O. Wilson that has since generated much discussion from readers (229 comments to date) on the WSJ website and also among mathematicians. Continue reading →

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Mathematics of Tipping Points

Climate Modeling, Mathematics
Posted on April 9, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A lake that used to be clear, with a rich vegetation and a diverse aquatic life, suddenly becomes turbid, with much less vegetation and only bottom dwelling fish remaining. It turns out that the change comes from increased nutrient loading, but when the runoff leading to the nutrient inflow is reduced, the lake doesn’t become clear again – it remains murky. Continue reading →

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“World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling,” Cornell University, June 18-21, 2013

Biodiversity, Conference Announcement, Ecology, Resource Management
Posted on April 8, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply
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Please join us at the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling. This annual meeting is run by the Resource Modeling Association. In June 2013, the conference will be held at Cornell University. Continue reading →

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MECC 2013 – Portugal, 21-28 March 2013

Climate, Conference Announcement, Energy
Posted on April 5, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Last week I attended “MECC 2013” – the International Conference and Advanced School Planet Earth, Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change, Portugal, 21-28 March 2013. Continue reading →

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Mathematical Models Help Energy-efficient Technologies Take Hold in a Community

Energy, Mathematics, Resource Management
Posted on April 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

Mathematical models can be used to study the spread of technological innovations among individuals connected to each other by a network of peer-to-peer influences, such as in a physical community or neighborhood. Continue reading →

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Geothermal Energy Harvesting

Renewable Energy
Posted on April 2, 2013 by Guest Blogger |

As the energy needs are expected to surpass the energy content found in available fossil-fuel resources in this century, interest in renewable energy sources has increased in the past decade. One area of interest is in geothermal energy harvesting. Continue reading →

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Celebrate the Mathematics of Sustainability

Mathematics, Sustainable Development
Posted on April 1, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

April is Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM). This year’s theme is Mathematics of Sustainability, which explores how mathematics helps us better understand these complex questions. Continue reading →

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Mathematical Sciences in the 21st Century

General, Mathematics
Posted on March 25, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A distinguished panel of experts, gathered by the National Academies, has recently produced a very interesting and informative publication: Fueling Innovation and Discovery: The Mathematical Sciences in the 21st Century. This publication was released by the National Academies in advance of their report The Mathematical Sciences in 2025, developed with support from the National Science Foundation. Continue reading →

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A View of Prediction of the Atmosphere

Atmosphere, Meteorology
Posted on March 23, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

This morning I heard a lecture by Rick Anthes, president emeritus of UCAR, former director of NCAR. His talk was entitled “Butterflies and Demons,” and the subject was predictability of weather and climate. He was a witness to, and participant in the development of numerical weather prediction in the form it exists today at weather centers worldwide. It was a particularly interesting and provocative talk.
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AWM Research Symposium at Santa Clara University, March 16

Climate, Conference Report
Posted on March 22, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Last Saturday, at the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Research Symposium at Santa Clara University, Inez Fung gave a wonderful spirited lecture on “Climate Math.” Continue reading →

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Teaching to the Planet

Imaging, Mathematics
Posted on March 18, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

For the past nine weeks, I had the privilege to teach a Massive Open Online Course(MOOC) on image and video processing. Continue reading →

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Chaos in an Atmosphere Hanging on a Wall

Climate, Mathematics, Meteorology
Posted on March 17, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 publication of Ed Lorenz’s groundbreaking paper, “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow,” in the Journal of Atmospheric Science. This seminal work, now cited more than 11,000 times, inspired a generation of mathematicians and physicists to embrace the nonlinearity governing our complex world. Continue reading →

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Predecessors of MPE2013

General
Posted on March 16, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

It took approximately 40 years for the community of mathematicians to become aware of the various difficulties facing human society in the near future and to accept to work on these questions. Continue reading →

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The Great Wave Explained by Directional Focusing

Geophysics, Ocean
Posted on March 13, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

One of the most famous images in Japanese art is the Great Wave off Kanagawa, a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. The print is also famous in mathematics: the structure of the breaking wave at its crest illustrates features of self-similarity, and the large amplitude of the wave has led it to be interpreted as a rogue wave generated from nonlinear wave effects. Continue reading →

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MPE2013 Launched in Portugal, March 5, 2013, at “Pavilhão do Conhecimento” in Lisbon

General, Public Event
Posted on March 12, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

While the European launch of MPE2013 was taking place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, a youth festival was taking place in Lisbon at “Pavilhão do Conhecimento,” the largest science center in Portugal, with hundred of pupils participating in mathematics popularization activities directly or indirectly related to the mathematics of planet earth for schools. Continue reading →

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Modeling and Prediction of Earthquakes

Geophysics
Posted on March 11, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

March 11 marks the second anniversary of the 2011 9.0 earthquake with epicenter located off the coast of Japan, which caught the world—including expert seismologists—by surprise. It was a stark reminder of how much is still unknown about faults and their sudden, catastrophic, behavior. Continue reading →

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Lecture: Utilizing the environment to manage HIV/AIDS

General, Public Event
Posted on March 10, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Sub-Sahara Africa is the epicenter for both the HIV epidemic and poverty. Continue reading →

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A non-mathematician’s impressions of the Shuckburgh lecture

Climate, General, Public Event
Posted on March 9, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply
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On Monday, March 4, Emily Shuckburgh delivered the second of the MPE2013-Simons Public Lecture Series talk, “Climate disruption: what math and science have to say” at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Continue reading →

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Impressions from the First MPE Exhibition at UNESCO in Paris

MPE Exhibit, Public Event
Posted on March 7, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 4 comments

On March 5, at 9:00 am, the first visitors started to explore the 20 modules of the first MPE exhibition at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Continue reading →

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News from the MPE2013 Competition

MPE Exhibit
Posted on March 6, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Twenty-nine entries were submitted for the competition for modules for a virtual exhibition Continue reading →

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Atmospheric waves and the organization of tropical weather

Atmosphere, Meteorology, Ocean
Posted on March 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 2 comments
Atmospheric Gravity Wave

Though waves of one sort or another are a ubiquitous part of our daily experience, we have to get on with our lives, and therefore tend not to think of the wavelike nature of daily phenomena. Those fortunate among us who can escape to the shore on a hot August week can then take the time to observe the sea and the waves she sends us. Continue reading →

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Nonlinear Waves and the Growth of a Tsunami

Geophysics, Ocean
Posted on February 28, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 2 comments
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This past week at AIM Mark Ablowitz told me about an interesting article (with beautiful pictures) he wrote with Douglas Baldwin called “Nonlinear shallow ocean-wave silicon interactions on flat beaches.” The propagation of these waves may contribute to the growth of tsunami waves. Continue reading →

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Report from AIM: “Nonlinear wave equations and integrable systems – Mathematics for a nonlinear planet”

Mathematics, Workshop Report
Posted on February 27, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A small research group has been meeting at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) in Palo Alto, CA, during the week of Feb. 18-22 to work on integrable systems of nonlinear Schroedinger type, a special class of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Continue reading →

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SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

Computational Science, Conference Announcement
Posted on February 25, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

One of the reasons for designating 2013 as the year of “Mathematics of Planet Earth” is to showcase the work done by mathematics in application areas like climate, ocean, and earth sciences. The SIAM Conference on CS&E, which begins on February 25th, contains many sessions relevant to MPE 2013. Continue reading →

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Letter from Banff

Workshop Report
Posted on February 24, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply
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I was planning to send an update every day from the data assimilation workshop at the Banff Center, but I’ve been so busy here that by the time I get back to my room I’m ready to collapse. The Banff Center is the best place I know of for a workshop. It’s almost like working hard and being on vacation at the same time, with the benefits of both. Continue reading →

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Some Mathematics Behind Biological Diversity

Biodiversity, Mathematics
Posted on February 23, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

I was planning to send an update every day from the data assimilation workshop at the Banff Center, but I’ve been so busy here that by the time I get back to my room I’m ready to collapse. The Banff Center is the best place I know of for a workshop. It’s almost like working hard and being on vacation at the same time, with the benefits of both. Continue reading →

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Asteroids

Astrophysics, Data Assimilation
Posted on February 20, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

The close approach of the asteroid that we have all read about in the newspapers represents something of a coincidence for me as I prepare for the data assimilation workshop in Banff this coming week. Continue reading →

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Report on “Models and Methods in Ecology and Epidemiology (M2E2)”

Conference Report, Disease Modeling, Ecology, Epidemiology, Mathematics
Posted on February 19, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

“Science without data is science-fiction.” This was on of the boldest (if more facetious…) statements heard at the workshop “Models and Methods in Ecology and Epidemiology (M2E2)” held at CRM last week. Speakers from very diverse backgrounds presented a wide rage of mathematical models developed to better understand the dynamics and propagation mechanisms of, amongst others, Avian Flu, Lyme Disease and the West Nile virus. Throughout the presentations, the pervasive role played by data incorporation in the models was emphasized, and the equally important organization of model development as a team effort was underlined. Continue reading →

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Bird Watchers and Big Data

Biology, Data Visualization
Posted on February 17, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

You would be forgiven for not initially recognizing some of the high-level similarities between the practice of research in sciences such as physics and research in ornithology. One basic similarity is that we are all constrained in what we can measure. Quantum physics has its uncertainty principle that describes limits on what can be measured. Ornithologists are at times limited in what they can measure by the very things that they are trying to observe: birds will sometimes actively avoid detection. Continue reading →

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There Will Always be a Gulf Stream — An Exercise in Singular Perturbation Technique

Geophysics, Mathematics, Ocean
Posted on February 15, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

One hears occasionally in the popular media that one possible consequence of global warming might be the disappearance of the Gulf Stream. This makes physical oceanographers cringe. The Gulf Stream and its analogs in other ocean basins exist for fundamental physical reasons. Climate change may well bring changes in the Gulf Stream. It may not be in the same place, may not be of the same strength or have the same temperature and salinity characteristics, but as long as the continents bound the great ocean basins, the sun shines, the earth turns toward the east and the wind blows in response, there will be a Gulf Stream. Continue reading →

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“Models and Methods in Ecology, Epidemiology (M2E2)”

Conference Report, Ecology, Epidemiology, General
Posted on February 14, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A scientific workshop, as part of the pan-Canadian MPE2013 thematic program “Models and Methods in Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health (M2E2)”, started at CRM today. The workshop, focusing on models and methods in ecology and epidemiology, was designed to initiate … Continue reading →

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A Personal “Day Zero” Experience

Climate Change, General
Posted on February 14, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

I have been involved with MPE2013 activities since the first organizing workshop was held at AIM in March of 2011, not as a mathematician with MPE areas of interest, but more as an institute staff member helping to bring about … Continue reading →

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Prospects for a Green Mathematics

Biosphere, Mathematics
Posted on February 12, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment

It is increasingly clear that we are initiating a sequence of dramatic events across our planet. They include habitat loss, an increased rate of extinction, global warming, the melting of ice caps and permafrost, an increase in extreme weather events, … Continue reading →

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Mathematicians at AIM tackle problems related to our environment

Ecology, Workshop Report
Posted on February 11, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

Prepared by Ali Nadim (Claremont Graduate University) and Ami Radunskaya (Pomona College) What do green buildings, environmental toxins, sources of ozone pollution in the atmosphere, and infrastructure planning for electrical power have in common? They were all topics of intense … Continue reading →

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Stochastics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Geophysics, Mathematics
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A workshop is taking place this week at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) in Palo Alto, California, on “Stochastics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Mathematical foundations and physical underpinnings.” This workshop is co-organized by Nathan Glatt-Holtz (Institute of Mathematics and … Continue reading →

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It’s a Math Eat Math World

Ecology, General
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

A book review in the January 11 issue of Science magazine begins with a wonderful line: “It is not often that mathematical theory is tested with a machine gun.” The book under review is “How Species Interact: Altering the Standard … Continue reading →

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Ice Floes, Coriolis Acceleration and Estimating the Viscosity of Air and Water

Atmosphere, Geophysics, Mathematics, Ocean
Posted on February 5, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

I have wanted to run this story down since I saw the reference in Lamb’s Hydrodynamics to a paper by G. I. Taylor that contains a description of what oceanic and atmospheric scientists call “Ekman layers.” Physical oceanographers learn early … Continue reading →

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From the JMM – Data Assimilation and the Mathematics of Planet Earth and Its Climate

Climate Modeling, Conference Report, Data Assimilation, General
Posted on January 16, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

This session, organized by Thomas Bellsky, Arizona State University, and Lewis Mitchell, University of Vermont, focused on applications of data assimilation to climate issues. It opened with a talk by Chris Jones of the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Demography and Population Biology

General, Public Event, Social Systems
Posted on January 15, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

In concert with the MPE 2013 initiative, the NSF’s Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at Ohio State will host the Keyfitz Centennial Symposium on Mathematical Demography in June 2013, cosponsored by the OSU Institute for Population Research (IPR). The main goal … Continue reading →

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From the JMM — A Meteorologist’s View

Conference Report, General
Posted on January 12, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

I am attending the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, where I was convinced to help organize a special session on environmental mathematics focused on evaluating past climate changes and modeling of future variations. I am a meteorologist by training … Continue reading →

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Dear my imaginary teenage sister,

Climate, General
Posted on January 11, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply
Carbon per country Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, by country

I was thrilled to get your last letter. I’m glad to see you are looking at some of the references I sent you last time. Figuring out who is responsible for higher atmospheric levels and how to respond to climate … Continue reading →

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From the JMM — A view from the other AMS (Am. Meteorological Soc.)

Conference Report, General
Posted on January 10, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

In January I am normally in a southern US city attending the American Meteorological Society annual meeting. This week, I am in San Diego attending a different AMS – the American Mathematical Society Joint Mathematics Meetings. I am helping to … Continue reading →

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Dear my little (well not so little anymore!) imaginary teenage sister,

Climate, General
Posted on January 8, 2013 by Guest Blogger | 1 comment
Climate Pancakes How much salt in your climate pancakes?

Doing your school research paper on climate change sounds like a great idea! Let me see if I can get you started. I’ll even put a few references at the end in case you want to look those up for … Continue reading →

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Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Research

Climate Change, Risk Analysis
Posted on January 7, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

It is often the case that at the end of one of my talks about some aspect of climate research or about the development of tools for the analysis of climate I get asked questions regarding global warming. Whether global … Continue reading →

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MPE in the Classroom

Education
Posted on January 5, 2013 by Guest Blogger |

As part of the United States launch of MPE2013, pedagogical talks on Integrating the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 in the College Mathematics Curriculum will be presented next week during the Joint Mathematical Meetings, the world’s largest annual mathematics conference in San Diego, California. Continue reading →

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A Word from the President of SIAM

General
Posted on January 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger | Reply

As we enter the new year, SIAM — along with more than one hundred universities, research institutes, and other scientific organizations —is thrilled to be a part of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013. It is an exciting year-long program dedicated … Continue reading →

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New Professional Master’s Programs Emerge in the Mathematical Sciences

Education
Posted on January 3, 2013 by Guest Blogger |

The Professional Science Master’s Programs (PSM), a new breed of graduate programs, have emerged in the last decade and a half as a response to the workforce need for STEM professionals with strong scientific and professional skills. Continue reading →

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Using Mathematical Modeling to Eradicate Diseases

Disease Modeling, Epidemiology, Public Health
Posted on September 12, 2012 by Guest Blogger |

The Guinea Worm Disease, which already affected 50 million people, is almost eradicated with fewer than 2000 cases. What happened? Mathematical modeling helps identifying the most relevant parameter and design a strategy of action. Continue reading →

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