Public Lectures
Motility: Molecules, Mechanics, Mathematics and Machines
Speaker: L. Mahadevan (Harvard)
Medical Sciences Auditorium 06/24/12
Puzzles in the Patterns of Plagues
Speaker: David Earn (McMaster)
Medical Sciences Auditorium 06/24/12
Using Mathematics to Combat Climate Change
Speaker: Ron Dembo (Zerofootprint)
Medical Sciences Auditorium 06/25/12
The Mathematics of Planet Earth
Speaker: John Baez
Van der Sterr Building 1039, Stellenbosch, South Africa 10/30/12
Une longue histoire: la planète Terre et les mathématiques
Speaker: Ivar Ekeland (Paris-Dauphine and UBC)
Hôtel Reine Elizabeth - Montréal 12/07/12
Que peuvent faire les mathématiques pour la planète?
Speaker: Michel Béland (Environnement Canada), Ivar Ekeland (Paris-Dauphine et UBC), Claude Hilaire-Marcel ( UQAM), Normand Mousseau (Université de Montréal), Marie-France Raynault (Université de Montréal)
Pavillon 3200 Jean Brillant, local B2285, Montréal 12/07/12
The complex challenge of sustainability
Speaker: Doyne Farmer (Oxford)
Hôtel Reine Elizabeth - Montreal 12/08/12
Mathematics and the Melting Polar Ice Caps
Speaker: Kenneth M. Golden (University of Utah)
San Diego Convention Center 01/12/13
Cycle “Un texte, un mathématicien”
01/13/13
How Does Google Google? The Math Behind the Internet
Speaker: Margot Gerritsen (Stanford)
UBC, Vancouver, Room LSK 460 01/14/13
Bolztmann : un précurseur pour la modélisation de la haute atmosphère
Speaker: Laure Saint-Raymond
Espace des sciences, IREM de Rennes 01/15/13
How Does Google Google? The Math Behind the Internet
Speaker: Margot Gerritsen (Stanford)
Science B Room 103, University of Calgary 01/17/13
A Computational Mathematician Combusts: Simulation of in-situ Combustion for Heavy Oil Recovery
Speaker: Margot Gerritsen (Stanford)
Science B Room 103, University of Calgary 01/18/13
Pigs didn’t fly but swine flu: the mathematics of epidemics
Speaker: Ken Eames and Ellen Brooks-Pollock (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Lecture Theatre 2, Ken Edwards Building (TBC) 01/22/13
Cycle “Un texte, un mathématicien”
01/23/13
The challenge of sustainability and the promise of mathematics
Speaker: Simon Levin
Melbourne, Australia 01/29/13
Climate Change: The Science and the Math
Speaker: Chris Jones
College of William and Mary 02/01/13
“La Science se livre ” : le programme complet de l’édition 2013
Dans 32 bibliothèques et lieux culturels du département des Hauts de Seine 02/02/13
The Language of Life: When Mathematics Speaks to Biology
Speaker: Gerda de Vries (Professor of Mathematics, Alberta)
Research and Innovation Centre, Room 119, University of Regina. A reception will follow the lecture in the atrium outside the lecture hall 02/07/13
Cycle “Un texte, un mathématicien”
02/13/13
The Mathematics of Light and Sound
Speaker: Nilima Nigam (SFU)
CRM 02/15/13
Promenades Mathématiques
02/18/13
PIMS UNBC Distinguished Speaker Series: Rhonda J. Rosychuk
Speaker: Rhonda J. Rosychuk
UNBC 02/28/13
PIMS UNBC Distinguished Speaker Series: Rhonda J. Rosychuk
Speaker: Rhonda J. Rosychuk
UNBC 03/01/13
Climate disruption: what math and science have to say
Speaker: Emily Shuckburgh
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 03/04/13
Mathematics of Planet Earth
Speaker: Christiane Rousseau
Sala Bastida, AlhódigaBilbao, Plaza Arriquibar 4. Bilbao, Spain 03/07/13
M4TEMOZIOA Matematikaren hitzordua / Cita con las matemáticas 2013 – Christiane ROUSSEAU, March 7, 19:00h, Bastida Aretoa Alhóndigabilbao
Speaker: Christiane ROUSSEAU, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, President of MPE-Mathematics of the Planet Earth 2013
Bilbao - Basque Country - Spain 03/07/13
Mathematical Models for Territorial Interactions
Speaker: Mark Lewis
University of Victoria 03/14/13
Quel climat pour demain ? L’apport des modèles
Speaker: Sylvie Joussaume (D.R. CNRS, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace)
"La Coulée Douce", 51 rue du Sahel, Paris 12 ième. 03/14/13
The Mathematics of “Fracking”
Speaker: Anthony Peirce (UBC)
Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal 03/18/13
The Mathematical Challenges of Earth System and Weather Prediction
Speaker: Gilbert Brunet (Deputy Director Weather Science at the UK Meteorological Office, Exeter, United Kingdom)
Memorial University 03/19/13
Que disent les mathématiques sur notre environnement?
Marseille - Luminy 03/20/13
The Mathematical Challenges of Earth-System and Weather Prediction
Speaker: Gilbert Brunet (Deputy Director Weather Science at the UK Meteorological Office, Exeter, United Kingdom)
ROOM: MNT 202 03/21/13
The Mathematics of Planet Earth
Speaker: John Baez (Riverside)
St George's Church Lecture Theatre, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 03/25/13
Climate Math
Speaker: Inez Fung
University of Cape Town, South Africa 03/26/13
Surviving the next pandemic
Speaker: Dr Deirdre Hollingsworth
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, UK 04/02/13
The Mathematics of Crime
Speaker: Andrea Bertozzi
Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS) Room: L2-190 04/05/13
Les mathématiques pour faire parler la Terre (Images, Earthquakes and Plumes)
Speaker: Ingrid Daubechies
Pavillon Sherbrooke of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) 04/10/13
The New Architecture of Our Financial System
Speaker: Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
222 College Street, Room 230 04/11/13
Une longue histoire: la planète Terre et les mathématiques
Speaker: Prof. Ivar Ekeland
Rectorat de l’Université Libanaise, Mathaf , salle des Conférences. 04/11/13
Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs
Speaker: John Bush (MIT)
Quebec 04/18/13
The Public Health Impact of Air Pollution and Climate Change
Speaker: Francesca Dominici
The Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 04/24/13
Les ponts de Königsberg, les digues de Hollande et la chûte de Wall Street
Speaker: Paul Embrechts, ETH Zürich
Montreal 05/10/13
Public Lecture by Fields Medalist Cedric Villani at the American University of Beirut, College Hall, Auditorium B1: Of triangles, prices, gas and men
Speaker: Cedric Villani
Beirut 05/11/13
CliMathematics: Models, data, structures
Speaker: Rupert Klein
Henry-Ford-Bau (Max-Kade-Auditorium) 05/23/13
“Les cafés de la Statistique”
Speaker: coming soon...
Toulouse, France 05/27/13
Mathematics of Planet Earth
Speaker: Christiane Rousseau
Rome 05/28/13
Movement, music, and Mathematics of Falling Paper and Insect Flight
Speaker: Jane Wang (Professor of Physics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University)
Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto 06/21/13
Mathematics of Planet Earth
Speaker: Christiane Rousseau
Apec Hall, BEXCO, Busan Korea 07/01/13
Mathematics and the Planet Earth: a Long Life Together
Speaker: Ivar Ekeland
Earth Sciences Building, Room 2012 07/15/13
Mathematics and the Planet Earth: a Long Life Together
Speaker: Ivar Ekeland, Université Paris-Dauphine
Earth Sciences Building, Room 2012 07/17/13
Why do things change so fast? Tipping points in life and nature
Speaker: Professor Chris Budd, University of Bath
15 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA, UK 09/11/13
On growth and form: mathematics, physics and biology
Speaker: L. Mahadevan
Salomon Hall, Brown University 09/24/13
Des mathématiques pour comprendre la planète
Speaker: Christiane Rousseau
Salle Hubert Curien des Champs Libres, 10 cours des Alliés, Rennes, France 09/24/13
Harnessing Math to Understand Tipping Points
Speaker: Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College)
Dalhousie University, Rowe Building, Potter Auditorium, 6100 University Avenue, Halifax, NS 09/27/13
The Evolution of Cooperation: Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
Speaker: Martin Nowak
Coffman Theater, University of Minnesota 10/08/13
The Mathematics of Evolution
Speaker: Robert Griffiths
Montréal 10/09/13
Ocean Waves and Tsunamis
Speaker: Walter Craig (Canada Research Chair of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, McMaster University)
MacLaggan Hall Auditorium, University of New Brunswick, 33 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB 10/10/13
Quantum Mechanics and the Future of the Planet
Speaker: Emily A. Carter
Korn Convocation Hall, University of California, Los Angeles 11/04/13
The Evolution of Cooperation: Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
Speaker: Martin Novak
Montréal, CANADA 11/06/13
Les mathématiques de la planète Terre
Speaker: Christiane Rousseau (UdeM),
Québec 11/07/13
Des mathématiques pour comprendre et gérer la planète
Speaker: Christiane Rousseau (Professeur, Université de Montréal)
Amphithéâtre Hydro-Québec, Pavillon Alphonse-Desjardins 11/07/13
Mathematics of Planet Earth – Tellusmatematik
Speaker: Samuel Bengmark, Patrick Samuelsson, David Sumpter, Helen Avelin, Tünde Fülöp
ABF-huset, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm 11/09/13
Evolution’s mysteries unravelled with genomes and computers
Speaker: Professor Steve Donnellan
12/03/13
MPE Public Lecture: Mathematical challenges in finding the Tree-of-Life
Speaker: Professor Mike Steel
12/06/13