Mathematics of Planet Earth beyond 2013 (MPE 2013+)

2013 年以后的地球数学 (MPE 2013 )

• 批准号: 1246305
• 负责人: Fred Roberts
• 金额: $ 46.75万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1246305&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mathematics; Planet; Earth; beyond; 2013

This award supports a series of seven workshops and their follow-on activities to be held in 2014 and 2015 to continue the research and education thrusts emanating from the Mathematics of Planet Earth year 2013. The proposed locations and dates are as follows: MPE 2013+ Preparatory Workshop (Arizona State University, 2014); Management of Natural Resources (Howard University, 2014), Sustainable Human Environments (Rutgers University, 2014), Natural Disasters (Arizona State Univeristy, 2014), Data-aware Energy Use (University of California San Diego, 2014), Global Change (Univeristy of California Berkeley, 2015), and Education for the planet Earth of Tomorrow (University of Tennessee, 2015.) The Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) was conceived as a year-long project slated to begin in January 2013, involving mainly North American institutions. It has since evolved to become a truly worldwide initiative with partners from all continents. As MPE has gained members, it has become clear that there is momentum to propel it beyond 2013. The problems facing our planet will persist, and the project supported here (MPE 2013+) aims to involve mathematical scientists in laying the groundwork for a long-term effort to surmount them. MPE 2013+ aims to sustain MPE activities beyond 2013 by: 1) conducting five research workshops that each defines a set of future research challenges; 2) establishing a research and education forum associated with each workshop that involves follow-up smaller group meetings to flesh out the challenges, identify potential follow-up activities, and begin collaborations; 3) holding an education workshop that helps to identify how to integrate themes identified in the research workshops into undergraduate and graduate curricula; 4) finding ways to involve the next generation of mathematical scientists in the effort, with special emphasis on involving under-represented minorities in the MPE workforce of the future, especially through an introductory conference that will prepare participants for involvement in the following research workshops; and 5) disseminating information about the mathematics of planet earth by creating a website and other publicity materials for the project. The research workshops cover the following themes: Management of Natural Resources (including water, forests, and food supplies); Sustainable Human Environments (including smarter cities, anthropogenic biomes, and security); Natural Disasters (monitoring, responding to, and mitigating their effects); Data-aware Energy Use (including alternative energy investment portfolios, smart grid, smart buildings, electric vehicles); Global Change (including observation, metrics, and mitigating and adapting to the effects of change). The project has significant potential benefit to society through improved capabilities to monitor the earth's systems and to extract meaning from collected data; new multi-scale methods for modeling complex interacting systems; mathematically driven pricing for resource and energy usage and incentives for energy-efficient construction; and mathematically precise criteria for measuring biodiversity and other ecological desiderata. MPE 2013+ aims to bring mathematical scientists not currently engaged in sustainability to these topics and to connect those who are with a broader multidisciplinary community. The project brings together a large number of people from different disciplines, with different backgrounds, at different stages of their careers, and with different points of view and actively recruits participants from groups historically under-represented in the sciences.

该奖项支持将于2014年和2015年举办的一系列七个讲习班及其后续活动，以继续开展2013地球数学年的研究和教育活动。拟议的地点和日期如下：MPE 2013+筹备讲习班(亚利桑那州立大学，2014年)；自然资源管理(霍华德大学，2014年)；可持续人类环境(罗格斯大学，2014年)；自然灾害(亚利桑那州立大学，2014年)；数据感知能源使用(加州大学圣地亚哥分校，2014年)；全球变化(加州大学伯克利分校，2015年)；明日地球教育(田纳西大学，2015年)。地球数学(MPE)是一个为期一年的项目，计划于2013年1月开始，主要涉及北美的机构。自那以后，它已经演变成一项真正的全球倡议，合作伙伴来自各大洲。随着MPE成员的增加，很明显，它有动力推动其跨越2013年。我们的星球面临的问题将持续存在，这里支持的项目(MPE 2013+)旨在让数学科学家参与为克服这些问题的长期努力奠定基础。MPE 2013+旨在通过以下方式在2013年后继续开展MPE活动：1)举办5个研究讲习班，每个讲习班确定一系列未来的研究挑战；2)建立与每个讲习班相关的研究和教育论坛，其中包括后续小组会议，以充实挑战，确定潜在的后续活动，并开始合作；3)举办教育讲习班，帮助确定如何将研究讲习班中确定的主题纳入本科生和研究生课程；4)想方设法让下一代数学科学家参与这项工作，特别强调让代表不足的少数群体参与未来的重大计划教育工作，特别是通过一次介绍性会议，使与会者为参与随后的研究讲习班做好准备；以及5)通过为该项目创建一个网站和其他宣传材料，传播有关地球数学的信息。研究研讨会涵盖以下主题：自然资源管理(包括水、森林和食品供应)；可持续人类环境(包括更智能的城市、人为生物群和安全)；自然灾害(监测、应对和减轻其影响)；数据感知能源使用(包括替代能源投资组合、智能电网、智能建筑、电动汽车)；全球变化(包括观测、指标以及减轻和适应变化的影响)。该项目具有重大的潜在社会效益，因为它提高了监测地球系统和从收集的数据中提取意义的能力；为复杂的相互作用系统建模的新的多尺度方法；资源和能源使用的数学驱动定价和节能建筑的激励；以及衡量生物多样性和其他生态需求的数学精确标准。MPE 2013+旨在将目前没有从事可持续发展研究的数学科学家带入这些主题，并将那些正在与更广泛的多学科社区联系起来的人联系起来。该项目汇集了来自不同学科、具有不同背景、处于不同职业阶段和具有不同观点的大量人员，并积极从科学界历来代表性不足的群体招募参与者。