Fourteen mathematical institutions throughout North America have joined together to address the issues of climate change and sustainability. This website will highlight the work happening at the various institutions regarding climate change and sustainability.
| 2010 |
| January |
Lectures on Energy Markets including Carbon Emission Markets |
IPAM |
| January |
Mathematics in Pandemic Influenza Management |
MITACS |
| January |
Working Group: Feral swine/pseudo-rabies in Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
NIMBioS |
| January |
Workshop on Climate and Health |
DIMACS |
| 2010-2011 |
Climate and Health Research Initiative: Extreme Events |
DIMACS |
| Jan.-Aug |
Program on Space-Time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change (including research groups on: Paleoclimate; Spatial exposures and health effects; Interaction of deterministic and stochastic models; Computation, visualization, and dimension reduction in spatio-temporal modelling,; Spatial extremes; and Geostatistics) |
SAMSI |
| Spring |
Course on Spatial Statistics in Climate, Ecology and Atmospherics |
SAMSI |
| February |
Modular Course on Geoenvironmental Modelling |
MITACS |
| February |
Workshop on Climate Change |
SAMSI |
| February |
Working group: Synthesizing predictive modelling of forest insect dynamics across spatial and temporal scales |
NIMBioS |
| March |
Biofilms and Infectious Disease |
MBI |
| March |
NICDS workshop: Statistical Methods for Geographic and Spatial Data in the Management of Natural Resources |
CRM |
| March-June |
Model and Data Hierarchies for Simulating and Understanding Climate |
IPAM |
| April |
Transport and Mixing in Complex and Turbulent flows |
IMA |
| April |
Workshop on Environmental Risk |
SAMSI |
| April |
Numerical Hierarchies for Climate Modeling |
IPAM |
| April |
Workshop on Modelling River Ecosystems at Ottawa |
Fields |
| May |
Workshop on Life History Analysis at Waterloo |
Fields |
| May |
Mathematical Modelling Symposium and Workshop at the 2010 International Conference on Sea Lice |
MITACS |
| May |
Simulation Hierarchies for Climate Modeling |
IPAM |
| May |
Data Hierarchies for Climate Modeling |
IPAM |
| Spring-Summer |
Working group: Synthesizing and Predicting Infectious Disease while Accounting for Endogenous Risk |
NIMBioS |
| June |
Waves in Fluids from the Microscopic to the Planetary Scale |
PIMS |
| June |
New Directions Short Course: New Mathematical Models in Economics and Finance |
IMA |
| July |
Investigative Workshop: Modelling sustainability of coral reef ecosystem services under multiple interacting stressors |
NIMBioS |
| July |
Summer School on Climate Change |
MSRI |
| July-August |
Mathematics of Drug resistance in Infectious diseases |
Fields |
| July-August |
US-African Initiative: Advanced Study Institute and Workshop on Conservation Biology (Kenya Wildlife Services Camp, Naivasha, Kenya) |
DIMACS/MBI |
| August |
Summer School on Computer Models and Geophysical Risk Analysis |
PIMS |
| August |
Workshop on Virology |
Fields |
| August |
Extreme Events in Climate and Weather - An Interdisciplinary Workshop |
BIRS |
| September |
Mathematical Modelling of Plant Development |
MBI |
| September |
Decision Analysis and Sustainable Development |
CRM |
| Fall |
Collaborative Research Groups: Environmetrics |
PIMS |
| Fall |
Collaborative Research Groups: Climate modelling |
PIMS |
| December |
Waves and Multiscale Processes in the Tropics |
AIM |
| MITACS: Shorter-term Research Projects (2010)
Exploration of novel fuels for gas turbine applications
Simultaneous water and energy network optimization in the Canadian pulp and paper industry
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| 2011 |
| January |
Statistical methods for meteorology and climate change |
CRM |
| January |
Sustainability Problems workshop |
AIM |
| 2011 |
Climate and Health Research Initiative: Extreme Events |
DIMACS |
| February |
Ecology and Control of Invasive Species, Including Insects |
MBI |
| March-June |
Navigating Chemical Compound Space for Materials and Bio Design |
IPAM |
| April |
Coevolution and the Ecological Structure of Plant-Insect Communities |
MBI |
| April |
Societally Relevant Computing |
IMA |
| May |
Statistical issues in forest management |
CRM |
| May |
Organized Tropical Convection and Large-scale Circulation: Theory, Modeling, and Observations |
BIRS |
| May-June |
Ocean Ecologies and their Physical Habitats in a Changing Climate |
MBI |
| June |
Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems |
IMA |
| July |
Emerging Challenges at the Interface of Mathematics, Environmental Science and spatial Eco |
BIRS |
| July |
Advanced Mathematical Methods to Study Atmospheric Dynamical Processes and Predictability |
BIRS |
| Summer |
Complex Fluids in Industry and Nature |
MITACS |
| Summer |
Mathematical Challenges from Spatial Ecology: Environmental Variability |
MITACS |
| Summer |
Numerical Methods for Incompressible Flows |
MITACS |
| Aug.-July '12 |
Program on Uncertainty Quantification, with subthemes of climate change, modelling of risk in geosciences, and renewable energy |
SAMSI |
| Sept/Oct |
Balance, boundaries and mixing in the climate problem |
CRM |
| Fall |
Computational challenges for fusion energy |
IPAM |
MITACS: Ongoing Long-term Research Projects
- Transmission dynamics and spatial spread of infectious diseases: Modelling, prediction and control
- Multi-scale adaptive modelling and numerical methods for reactive flows
- Forest fires and spread in heterogeneous landscapes
- Simulating climate processes with high-resolution regional climate model
- Advanced mathematical modelling and simulation of transport phenomena
- Network for biological invasions and dispersal research
- Novel methods for three-dimensional aerodynamic optimization
- Predictive modelling of coastal habitat distribution
- Mesoscale hydrological ensemble forecasting for water resources management
- Modelling atmospheric boundary-layer flow for wind energy and other applications
- Optimizing multimodal transport in the forestry sector
- Advanced finite element techniques for coupled magnetic and thermal problems in superconductors
- Multi-format environmental information
- Multi-criteria mission route planning for search, surveillance and rescue in hazardous environments
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