Announcing the official start of MPE2013!
More than 100 scientific societies, universities, research institutes, and organizations all over the world have banded together to dedicate 2013 as a special year for the Mathematics of Planet Earth.
Our planet is the setting for dynamic processes of all sorts, including the geophysical processes in the mantle, the continents, and the oceans, the atmospheric processes that determine our weather and climates, the biological processes involving living species and their interactions, and the human processes of finance, agriculture, water, transportation, and energy. The challenges facing our planet and our civilization are multidisciplinary and multifaceted, and the mathematical sciences play a central role in the scientific effort to understand and to deal with these challenges. Read more…
National Science Foundation supports MPE2013+: Extending MPE2013 into the future. 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.