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AIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 6

August 2, 2020

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AIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 5

July 26, 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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Category Archives: Biology

Workshop

Workshop on Modeling in Life Sciences

Biology, Mathematics, Workshop Announcement

Workshop on Modeling in Life Sciences organized by the Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged on November 30, 2013, in Szeged, Hungary, in the framework of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 and the FuturICT.hu project. Information and preliminary program available at: http://www.math.u-szeged.hu/~knipl/mpe2013/ Poster presentations … Continue reading →

Public Lecture

Evolution’s mysteries unravelled with genomes and computers

Biology, Computational Science, Evolution, General, Mathematics, Statistics

Public Lecture presented by Professor Stephen Donnellan Some of the big questions in evolution of life on earth, such as how did life begin, why did sex evolve, how do species form, are starting to be unravelled by the availability of … Continue reading →

Public Lecture

MPE Public Lecture: Mathematical challenges in finding the Tree-of-Life

Biology, Evolution, General, Mathematics

Ever since the publication of Origin of the Species, biologists have aimed to uncover the evolutionary history of the species that inhabit (or once inhabited) the Earth – this project has come to be known as the Tree of Life. … Continue reading →

Workshop

5th Annual Phylomania Workshop on Theoretical Phylogenetics

Biology, Evolution, General, Mathematics, Statistics

Phylogenetics is concerned with the problem of reconstructing the past evolutionary history of organisms from molecular data, such as DNA, or morphological characters. There is ongoing interest in the further development of the mathematics that underlies computational phylogenetic methods. Hidden … Continue reading →

MPE Summer School

2014 AMSI Summer School

Biology, Climate System, General, Mathematics, Ocean, Statistics

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN The AMSI Summer School is an exciting opportunity for mathematical sciences students from around Australia to come together over the summer break and develop their skills and networks. Over the four weeks students take innovative courses … Continue reading →

Workshop

BioInfoSummer 2013

Biology, Computational Science, Ecology, General, Mathematics, Public Health

BioInfoSummer is a major annual bioinformatics educational and outreach event in Australia, bringing together in excess of 150 biologists, statisticians and bioinformatics professionals. Bioinformatics creates biological information and knowledge by the acquisition, archiving, integration, analysis and interpretation of biological data. … Continue reading →

Workshop

Biomath days

Biodiversity, Biogeochemistry, Biology, Carbon Cycle, Climate, Complex Systems, Computational Science, Disease Modeling, Ecology, Epidemiology, General, Mathematics, Natural Disasters, Patterns, Workshop Announcement

On November 12, 13 and 15, we are organizing the so-called Biomath days to which we invite students from the third grade of secondary school. On each of these days, the participating students will get in touch with the world … Continue reading →

Colloquium or Seminar

MPE @ FBE

Biodiversity, Biology, Climate, Climate Modeling, Computational Science, Disease Modeling, Ecology, Geophysics, Mathematics, Natural Disasters

The Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, has seized the worldwide MPE initiative to illustrate the merits of clinging to a mathematical viewpoint within those domains of science that pursue deeper insights into … Continue reading →

Public Lecture

Mathematics of Planet Earth – Tellusmatematik

Biology, Climate Modeling, Computational Science, General, Public Event, Public Health, Renewable Energy, Weather

The Swedish National Committee for Mathematics arranges a free of charge public symposium in Stockholm, November 9th, 2013. The talks, given in Swedish, have titles that can be translated to:”So do numerical models for weather-  and climate-forecasts work” , “Even living … Continue reading →

Meeting

BIOMAT 2013: Evolution and cooperation in social sciences and biomedicine

Biology, Disease Modeling, General, Mathematics, Social Systems

Program: -Tomás Alarcón (Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona, Spain): An Introduction to Stochastic Methods in Mathematical Biology -Mario Primicerio (Dipartimento di Matematica “Ulisse Dini”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy): Mathematical Models for Social Changes and Criminology -Koby Rubinstein (Department … Continue reading →

MPE Summer School

UIPM “Luis Santaló” School. Mathematics of Planet Earth: Scientific challenges in a sustainable planet.

Biodiversity, Biology, Disease Modeling, General, Geophysics, Mathematics

Program: – Jordi Bascompte  (Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Spain): The Mathematics of Biodiversity – Nicola Bellomo (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy): Towars a Theory of Complex Living Beings – Joel Brown (UIC Biological Sciences, University of … Continue reading →

Workshop

Information, probability and inference in systems biology (IPISB 2013)

Biology, General, Mathematics

The aim of this workshop is to bring experts in probability, information theory, and stochastic systems alongside experimental systems biologists to develop understanding of the principles underlying cellular signalling and decision-making, and to develop quantitative techniques to investigate those principles … Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

Teach Networks to Teenagers

This is an article about outreach efforts to teach networks to students of age 13-16 in England. Supplementary teaching materials are available, too. Link to the abstract and article Download supplementary materials (.zip file)

Public Lecture

The Language of Life: When Mathematics Speaks to Biology

Biology

Mathematics often is described as the language of science, particularly suited to speak to problems in physics, chemistry, engineering, and so on. Is mathematics also the language of life, suited to speak to problems in biology? Indeed, mathematics has a … Continue reading →

Workshop

Mathematical Methods and Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena

Biology, Disease Modeling, Ecology, Epidemiology, General, Social Systems

This is part of a series of workshops organized by IMPA aiming at bringing together a multidisciplinary group of scientists to study problems in the biophysical sciences upon which mathematics may have an impact. This year’s main topics are: Inverse … Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

MCRN Mathematics and Climate Annotated Reading Lists

MCRN Annotated reading lists: Each reading list is designed to provide an introductory guide to one area of climate science through its literature. They can be used for independent study, or as the foundation for upper division and graduate reading courses. … Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

AMS-ASA-MAA-SIAM Math Awareness Month

April is Math Awareness Month in the US! Check out the essays, posters and related materials for 2013 and previous years‘ themes, including: 2013 – Mathematical and Sustainability 2011 – Unraveling Complex Systems 2009 – Mathematics and Climate 2008 – … Continue reading →

Long Term Program

Mathematical Biology

Biodiversity, Biology, Disease Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, General

The thematic program “Mathematical Biology” will be held in Lyon from March 4th to June 14th, 2013. The main topics to be addressed in this program are: cell biology, population dynamics, quantitative modeling for drug development, systems biology, and evolutionary … Continue reading →

Workshop

Biological invasions and evolutionary biology, stochastic and deterministic models

Biology, Ecology, Evolution

The main topics to be highlighted during the workshop are mathematical models for evolutionary biology (deterministic models and stochastic processes) adaptive dynamics modeling of invasive species Recent progresses have been made in the modeling of biological invasions and evolution, from … Continue reading →

Workshop

Mathematical Models of Tumor-Immune System Dynamics

Biology, Disease Modeling

The workshop will include plenary lectures by leading researchers in tumor-immune system dynamics, parallel sessions of contributed/invited talks by senior and junior scientists, a poster session for graduate students, and a panel discussion on how to foster and sustain international collaborations in this highly multidisciplinary field of cancer immunology. Continue reading →

MPE Summer School

Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Biology

Biology

Stochasticity in Biology: Is Nature Inherently Random? Stochasticité en biologie: la nature est-elle intrinsèquement aléatoire?

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