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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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Workshop

Simulation of avalanches: modelling and numerics

Geophysics, Mathematics

This workshop gathers researchers working in the fields of modelling and design of numerical methods linked to some aspects of the simulation of avalanches. The themes of the conference will focus particularly on: modelling of viscoplastic materials, debris flows modelling, … Continue reading →

Colloquium or Seminar

Multirate time integration methods for the simulation of the atmosphere

Atmosphere, Computational Science, Mathematics, Meteorology

In this talk an overview is given on multirate time integration methods developed over the years for the integration of the compressible Euler equation and advection-diffusion-reaction equations. Physical and chemical processes in the atmosphere occur on different time scales ranging … Continue reading →

Colloquium or Seminar

Computer simulations of meteorite impact processes: A multi-material, multi-rheology CFD-approach for compressible flows

Geophysics, Mathematics, Natural Disasters, Paleoclimate

Impact cratering on planetary surfaces is one of the most important geological processes in the solar system. The cratered landscapes such as on the Moon, Mars or Mercury testify to the importance of collision events during the evolution of planets. … Continue reading →

Long Term Program

Mathematical and Statistical Ecology

Ecology, Mathematics, Statistics

A year-long program at the Statistical and Mathematical Sciences Institute, 2014/15. Applications are open for visiting positions at SAMSI, and will be posted in due course for the workshops.

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 →

Workshop

Sydney Random Matrix Theory Workshop

Computational Science, General, Mathematics, Statistics

This workshop is on recent and future advances in the analysis, computation and application of random matrices. Random matrix theory is an active and vibrant field with exciting recent theoretical developments in universality, and deep connections with many different areas … 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 →

Workshop

Workshop: Complex Analysis and Geometry

General, Mathematics, Meteorology, Statistics, Transportation, Weather

This workshop is aimed at sharing ideas and discussion of recent results in Complex analysis and differential geometry. Over the four days, the workshop will focus on para-complex notions and results of Kähler and CR-geometry and their applications in fluid … Continue reading →

Meeting

20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2013)

Climate, Climate System, Ecology, General, Mathematics, Statistics

We are pleased to announce that the 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2013) will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre in Adelaide, South Australia, from Sunday 1 to Friday 6 December 2013. ASOR (the Australian Society for Operations Research) and … Continue reading →

Workshop

Workshop: Recent developments of nonlinear partial differential equations

Evolution, General, Mathematics, Optimization, Transportation

This conference is a major event in the 2013 ANU special year on nonlinear partial differential equations. We focus on new developments in several themes of nonlinear PDEs and their applications, which include variational theory of nonlinear equations arising in … Continue reading →

Workshop

The 6th Australia-China Workshop on Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications

Data, Energy, General, Mathematics, Networks, Optimization, Statistics, Transportation

The Australia-China Workshop on Optimization was first initiated and organised by Prof. Alex Rubinov in 2004. This workshop series has been successfully held for 5 times in China and Australia and the next one will be held during 28-30 November … Continue reading →

Meeting

DELTA Conference 2013

General, Mathematics, Statistics

Lighthouse DELTA 2013 builds on the knowledge and collegial networks established in previous Delta conferences, a series of biennial southern hemisphere symposia that began in Brisbane in 1997. Delta attracts a wide international audience of mathematicians, educators and researchers committed … 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 →

Meeting

Mathematics of Planet Earth: Examples of Mathematics applied to Geophysics

General, Geophysics, Mathematics

In the international year of Mathematics of Planet Earth, with this meeting we want to display some examples of Applied Mathematics inside the context of Geophysics. At this meeting we will show different examples by using partial differential equations models. … Continue reading →

Colloquium or Seminar

ERC-NUMERIWAVES Seminar Changing wave climate in the Baltic Sea basin

Climate Change, Mathematics, Ocean

ERC NUMERIWAVES Seminar New analytical and numerical methods in wave propagation   Tarmo SOOMERE, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, Institute of Cybernetics at TUT, Head of Wave Engineering Laboratory, Estonian Academy of Sciences CHANGING WAVE CLIMATE IN THE BALTIC … 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 →

Workshop

Tipping points: fundamentals and applications

Climate System, Complex Systems, Ecology, General, Mathematics, Statistics

This workshop brings together mathematicians and statisticians, whose research expertise is relevant to investigating threshold behaviour in complex environmental systems, with the climate scientists and ecologists who exploit mathematical modelling in their research on tipping phenomena.

Public Lecture

Why do things change so fast? Tipping points in life and nature

Climate, Climate System, Complex Systems, Mathematics, Public Event, Social Systems

It is a Chinese curse that you should ‘live in interesting times’. These are times when things are changing quickly, and often not for the better. But why do we have both boring times when nothing much happens and interesting … Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

Shape Sleuths for Farm Machinery Developments

Shape Sleuths for (Australian 20th C) Farm Machinery Developments (from enviroed4all in Australia) Domains: Mathematics, Science, History, English, Communication Year levels : primary focus – middle and upper mainly, but can be used with lower Have you ever considered the … 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

Stochastic, statistical and computational approaches to immunology

Disease Modeling, General, Mathematics

The primary objective of this workshop is to continue the current effort in mathematical immunology that has been initiated by a series of international meetings. The second objective of the workshop is to enhance and train the strong mathematical immunology … 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 →

Public Lecture

Surviving the next pandemic

Disease Modeling, Epidemiology, General, Mathematics, Public Health

How would you control the outbreak of a deadly infectious disease? What would you prioritise – developing a vaccine; isolating the sick; closing borders? In this interactive event using reports from the 2003 SARS outbreak and swine flu pandemic of … Continue reading →

Public Lecture

Quel climat pour demain ? L’apport des modèles

Climate, General, Mathematics

Kafemath le jeudi 14 mars 2013 à 20 heures à “La Coulée Douce“, 51 rue du Sahel, Paris 12 ième. par Sylvie Joussaume, directrice de Recherche au CNRS, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace.   Résumé d’auteur. “Les observations mettent en évidence un … Continue reading →

Colloquium or Seminar

Cryospheric Initial Boundary Value Problems. In support of general circulation models of the earth’s climate evolution

Mathematics
General Event

Voyage sur la math-monde

General, Geophysics, Mathematics

Organisée par le Muséum Henri-Lecoq et l’IREM de Clermont-Ferrand, la soirée “Un voyage sur la math-monde” vous invite à découvrir la planète Terre à travers l’histoire des mathématiques et des instruments de calcul. C’est aussi l’occasion de voir notre quotidien et notre planète à travers l’œil du mathématicien. Continue reading →

Workshop

HPC-GA Project Workshop at BCAM, March 11 – 15 2013

General, Geophysics, Mathematics

 The second Workshop of the HPC-GA Project will be held in the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, in March, 11 – 15, 2013 in Bilbao. The workshop will bring together researchers involved in the large-scale simulation of geophysics phenomenon. The … Continue reading →

Workshop

Environmental Mathematics Day BCAM Workshop, February 26, 2013

Climate, General, Mathematics, Sustainable Development

Environmental Mathematics Day This workshop presents some contributions of the applied mathematics to the analysis of the behaviour of environmental systems. It addresses quite different systems: Hydrodynamic flows, glaciers, fisheries and forest fires. Our purpose is to show how applied mathematics can provide … Continue reading →

Public Lecture

M4TEMOZIOA Matematikaren hitzordua / Cita con las matemáticas 2013 – Christiane ROUSSEAU, March 7, 19:00h, Bastida Aretoa Alhóndigabilbao

Climate, General, Mathematics, Ocean, Sustainable Development

BCAM-Basque Center of Applied Mathematics, in collaboration with the Chair of Scientific Culture of the University of the Basque Country and the Alliance of Technological Centers IK4, invite you to the public lecture M4TEMOZIOA Matematikaren Hitzordua I Cita con las … Continue reading →

Meeting

MPE Australia 2013: The Conference

Biodiversity, Data Visualization, Economics, Finance, General, Mathematics, Risk Analysis, Statistics, Sustainable Development

Rydges Hotel,  Melbourne    8-12 July 2013 An Australian Academy of Science Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference This conference is the central scientific event of MPE Australia 2013, bringing together the scientific community to address the mathematical contribution to the challenges of … Continue reading →

Meeting

ICAMI ‘2013 – International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Informatics

Disease Modeling, Economics, Epidemiology, Geophysics, Mathematics, Sustainable Development

The Second International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Informatics (ICAMI’2013) will be organized during November 24 – 29, 2013 in San Andres Island, Colombia within the framework of the REALMA Network (REALMA). ICAMI’2013 will be hosted by the community of Colombian scholars, engineers and other specialists working in the field of applied mathematics and its adjunct areas, informatics and computer sciences. Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

NASA Remote Sensing Math

With 103 problems designed for middle and high school students, this book covers many topics in remote sensing, satellite imaging, image analysis and interpretation. Examples are culled from NASA earth science and astronomy missions. Students learn about instrument resolution and … Continue reading →

Long Term Program

Focus Program on Commodities, Energy and Environmental Finance

Climate, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Resource Management

The central objective of the program is to gather researchers in stochastic analysis, mathematical finance, financial economics, and insurance mathematics to exchange ideas on the current state-of-the-art in commodities and environmental finance. This will be accomplished by three 5-lecture Short … Continue reading →

Workshop

Planetary Motions, Satellite Dynamics, and Spaceship Orbits

Celestial Mechanics, Dynamical Systems

The initial goal of Celestial Mechanics was to explain the motion of
the Sun, the Moon and planets. Nowadays the mathematical methods of Celestial Mechanics
find several different applications, including the determination of the dynamics of planets, asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, and the design of orbits for interplanetary travels. Continue reading →

Workshop

New perspectives on the n-body problem

Celestial Mechanics, Dynamical Systems

Our aim is to bring the main specialists
of the N–body problem together with the leaders of different areas in dynamical systems (Variational Methods, Mather Theory, Hamiltonian dynamics, Ergodic Theory) trying to build a theoretical framework suitable to attack some of the many unsolved aspects of the N–body problem. Continue reading →

Long Term Program

Celestial mechanics

Celestial Mechanics, Dynamical Systems
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