Plus d’une centaine de societés cientifiques, universités, centres de recherches ont uni leurs efforts pour faire de 2013 une année spéciale des Mathématiques de la planète Terre.
Notre planète est le siège de processus dynamiques de toutes sortes: processus géophysiques dans le manteau, les continents, les océans, processus atmosphériques qui déterminent le temps et les climats, processus biologiques dans l’évolution des espèces vivantes et leurs interactions, processus humains en finance, agriculture, gestion de l’eau, transport et énergie. Les défis auxquels font face notre planète et notre civilisation sont multidisciplinaires et les sciences mathématiques jouent un rôle de premier plan dans l’effort de recherche concerté requis pour les comprendre et trouver des solutions. Read more…
MPE 2013 National Launches
The Canadian launch will take place at the winter meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in Montreal on December 7-10, 2012.
The US launch will take place at the Joint Mathematical Meetings in San Diego on January 9-12, 2013.
The Australian launch will take place with the first Simons MPE lecture in Melbourne on January 29, 2013.
The Portuguese launch will take place in Lisbon on March 5, 2013.
Competition
The deadline of the MPE competition is December 20, 2012. The submitted modules will also form the basis of a permanent virtual exhibition that will be inaugurated at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris on March 5-8, 2013.
Lecture Series
Simon Levin will speak on The Challenge of Sustainability and the promise of mathematics in Melbourne on January 29, 2013, as the first in a series of public lectures sponsored by the Simons Foundation.
Emily Shuckburgh will speak on Climate disruption: what math and science have to say, hosted by MSRI and AIM, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on March 4, 2013.
CMS MPE Lecture Series
The Canadian Mathematical Society, in collaboration with the Canadian institutes AARMS, CRM, the Fields Institute and PIMS, is sponsoring a cross-Canada series of lectures for MPE 2013. Eleven of the lectures will be for the general public and the rest for a scientific audience.