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Four reasons why the fight against climate change is likely to fail

March 15, 2014

Democrats in the Senate stayed up all night talking about the perils of climate change. But while there's hope that technology, changing consumer and business practices or new policies could finally turn the tide and slow or reverse climate change, there are also good reasons to think those efforts will fail. [...]

How Inge Lehmann discovered the inner core of the Earth

February 19, 2014

Inge Lehmann was a Danish mathematician. She worked at the Danish Geodetic Institute, and she had access to the data recorded at seismic stations around the world. She discovered the inner core of the Earth in 1936, by analyzing the seismic data from large earthquakes recorded at different stations around the world. [...]

Ninth Simons Public Lecture


On November 4, 2013, Emily A. Carter (Princeton) delivered the ninth and final public lecture in the series. The title was Quantum Mechanics and the Future of the Planet and the location was the Korn Convocation Hall at UCLA.

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Category Archives: Transportation

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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)

MPE Summer School

IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program

Atmosphere, Climate, Climate Change, Ecology, Economics, Evolution, General, Natural Disasters, Political Systems, Risk Analysis, Social Systems, Sustainable Development, Transportation
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IIASA’s annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. From June through August accepted participants work within the … Continue reading →

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Mathematics of Transportation Networks

Resource Management, Transportation

Designing and operating efficient transportation networks is one of the most urgent practical challenges facing societies in the twenty-first century. Continue reading →

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