Workshop “Celestial, Molecular, and Atomic Dynamics” (CEMAD-2013)
A workshop on “Celestial, Molecular, and Atomic Dynamics” (CEMAD-2013) was held at the University of Victoria, Canada, 29 July-2 August, 2013. The workshop was sponsored by the Pacific Institute for...
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Mathematical Models Enhance Current Therapies for Coronary Heart Disease
Equations help explain key parameters of stents that combat artherosclerosis Coronary heart disease accounts for 18% of deaths in the United States every year. The disease results from a blockage of...
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Predictive Models for the Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemicals
Ecological risk assessment (ERA) is an area of national and international concern, and is increasingly being driven by the need for a mathematical underpinning that addresses relevant biological...
View ArticleNumerical Weather Prediction – A Real-Life Application at the Intersection of...
In the daily operation of weather forecasts, powerful supercomputers are used to predict the weather by solving mathematical equations that model the atmosphere and oceans. In this process of...
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Mathematical Modeling and Haemostasis
The study of blood and the mechanism of blood clotting can be traced back to about 400 BC and the father of medicine, Hippocrates. However, the first larger advances came with the invention of a...
View ArticleA Thematic Semester on “Biodiversity and Evolution”
A thematic semester on “Biodiversity and Evolution” recently ended at the CRM (Centre de Recherches Mathématiques) in Montreal. It was packed with activities, drawing both mathematicians and biologists...
View ArticleWho ran the MPE2013 Daily Blogs during the last year?
During all of MPE2013 we could enjoy almost daily blogs, in both French and English. Now that the year 2013 is coming to an end, we can look back and ask ourselves who ran the blog? None of us had...
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Moving toward a long-term collaboration around MPE
MPE2013 was launched at the winter meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in Montreal on December 7, 2013. At that time, approximately one hundred partners in several countries had planned a...
View ArticleHow Inge Lehmann discovered the inner core of the Earth
We cannot see the interior of the Earth, and yet we know much about it: there is a viscous mantle below the thin solid crust. The mantle, approximately 3200km thick, surrounds the core. The core itself...
View ArticleFour reasons why the fight against climate change is likely to fail
[The following post by Steven Mufson appeared in "The Washington Post" Wonkblog, March 11, 2014] Democrats in the Senate stayed up all night talking about the perils of climate change. But while...
View ArticleAIM/MCRN Summer School, June 22-July 31, 2020 — Day 4
Today we heard from experts (morning) and practitioners (afternoon). The experts were Codilia McGehee (MD/PhD, U Minnesota), Jack O’Brian (biomath, stat, Bowdoin College), Pauline van den Driessche...
View ArticleAIM/MCRN Summer School, June 22-July 31, 2020 — Day 5, Week 1
The last day of the week was devoted to several exercises and some self-reflection. Anonymous polling was part of each exercise. First exercise: Think about questions that you would like us to...
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A Case for Online Workshops
by Yemeen Ayub “But you can’t do that, … , Mr. President?“ We were tasked with roleplaying as scientists who were having a stern conversation with policy-makers. Everyone is grinning at the humor of...
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Bringing Mathematics to the Cryosphere Data Pool
The polar regions of our planet (and, generally, the whole cryosphere) are unique platforms for data collection. One reason why the cryosphere is a big data reservoir is that physicists prefer to...
View ArticleAIM/MCRN Summer School, June 22-July 31, 2020 — Week 2
We are approaching the end of week 2 — a short 4-day week because of the 4thof July holiday. Here is a summary of the past few days. This week, the focus was on modeling the COVID-19 pandemic. Here,...
View ArticleAIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 3
June 22-July 31, 2020 This week we delved into data. Primed by the Alessandro Vespignani’s video presentation, we addressed the main topic of the summer school:Integrating observational data into...
View ArticleAIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 4
June 22-July 31, 2020 This was the week where the rubber hit the road. Having established five “umbrella groups,” each focused on a particular theme, and grouped fifteen projects under the various...
View ArticleAIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 5
June 22-July 31, 2020 In last week’s blog post, we mentioned that the participants in the summer school had identified fifteen research questions, which had been organized under five “umbrellas”:...
View ArticleAIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 6
June 22-July 31, 2020 This was the final week of the summer school. The pressure was on: presentations were to be given on Thursday afternoon, and final reports from the subgroups were due on Friday,...
View ArticleUsing Milankovitch Cycles to create high-resolution astrochronologies
Lon Abbott November 20, 2020 https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2020/11/20/using-milankovitch-cycles-to-create-high-resolution-astrochronologies/
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