Professor Christopher K.R.T. Jones — Recipient of the 2020 MPE Prize
Professor Chris Jones is the Bill Guthridge Distinguished Professor in Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN). The 2020 MPE Prize recognizes Professor Jones for his many significant contributions to climate science and the mathematics of planet Earth.
Category Archives: Biology
Mathematical Modeling and Haemostasis
Since the late 19th century until today many important breakthroughs have been made in the research of haemostatic mechanism, leading to an excellent understanding of all of the related individual systems—the vascular system, blood cells, the coagulation pathways, and fibrinolysis. Continue reading
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SIAM Conference on the Analysis of PDEs
Mathematics has always responded to demands of applications, even as mathematics continued to develop its own internal structures. One need only look back to the mid-twentieth century to see the mathematics spawned by demands of the military needs of the time. Today we see a tremendous growth in applied mathematics related to biology and medicine. Continue reading
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Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)
Earlier this year, President Obama announced a major federal research initiative dubbed the “brain initiative.” According to the initial announcement, its goal was to develop and use imaging techniques to better understand neural processes and brain function. Continue reading
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Math for Weather, Bacteria, Aircraft
Interested in the role of mathematics in predicting the weather or how bacteria adapt or designing aircraft? Continue reading
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The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions
When asked to give an invited lecture at the first ever Mathematical Congress of the Americas, I jumped at the chance. This would be an opportunity to meet new colleagues from the Americas and to share my interest in mathematical ecology. Continue reading
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SIAM Annual Meeting – I.E. Block Community Lecture
MPE2013 features a wealth of public lectures to highlight the year of Mathematics of Planet Earth. There is also a public lecture (the I.E. Block Community Lecture) associated with the SIAM Annual Meeting, and the topic of lecture this year follows an MPE theme. Continue reading
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DIMACS/CCICADA Collaboration on REU and Other Sustainability Projects
The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) and the Command Control Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA), both based at Rutgers University, have collaborated on some recent activities to enhance the summer experience for several undergraduate students participating in the DIMACS/CCICADA Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. DIMACS and CCICADA recently co-hosted a workshop on Science and Technology Innovations in Hurricane Sandy Research. Continue reading
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Using Mathematics to Understand, Detect, and Predict Biological Events in Our Water Systems
In coastal ocean, estuary, and lake systems, there is much interest in understanding, detecting, and predicting biological events. Continue reading
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More about E.O. Wilson’s Story “Great Scientist > Good at Math”
Today’s blog is an update on a story that was in the news earlier and also some comments on a recent article in the New York Review of Books. (See the blog of 4.11.2013.)
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Math-to-Bio? Yes, but also Bio-to-Math!
An exciting aspect of the relationship between mathematics and biology is the potential — the expectation even — that biology will provide the impetus for new mathematics, and that the feedback loop between mathematics and biology will be at least as influential and exciting as the one mathematics and physics has enjoyed for over 2000 years.
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“Great Scientist > Good at Math”
Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an essay by E.O. Wilson that has since generated much discussion from readers (229 comments to date) on the WSJ website and also among mathematicians. Continue reading
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2013 AARMS Mathematical Biology Workshop
We are pleased to announce the 2013 AARMS Mathematical Biology Workshop to be held at Memorial University of Newfoundland, July 27-29, 2013, in St John’s, Newfoundland. Registration closes on May 17, 2013 and abstracts should be submitted by June 30, 2013. Continue reading
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Bird Watchers and Big Data
You would be forgiven for not initially recognizing some of the high-level similarities between the practice of research in sciences such as physics and research in ornithology. One basic similarity is that we are all constrained in what we can measure. Quantum physics has its uncertainty principle that describes limits on what can be measured. Ornithologists are at times limited in what they can measure by the very things that they are trying to observe: birds will sometimes actively avoid detection. Continue reading
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