The Midwest Mathematics and Climate Conference

中西部数学与气候会议将于2015年4月30日至5月2日在堪萨斯大学校园举行。这次会议将把大气科学家和应用数学家聚集在一起，讨论我们这个时代最紧迫的话题之一——气候变化的不同方面。将这些不同的群体聚集在一起将促进气候科学与数学之间的知识转移。会议将为研究人员，特别是早期的研究生，博士后和教职员工提供一个极好的机会，向广泛的跨学科数学和科学社区传播他们的成果，获得经验并提高他们的沟通和演讲技能。会议将在促进和加强该地区各大学应用数学和大气科学研究小组之间的关系方面发挥积极作用。尽管人类活动对地球气候系统影响的科学基础已经确立，但围绕着气候行为的重要细节仍存在很大的不确定性。气候系统的许多组成部分基本上是非线性的，这表明可能存在“临界点”或阈值行为，这可能导致突然的、不可逆转的气候变化。虽然非线性、引爆点和阈值行为的概念受到大气科学界的赞赏，但它们通常在某种程度上是轶事性的。另一方面，应用数学界多年来一直在非线性系统中探索这些主题，尽管通常是在高度理想化的数学框架中。本次会议的目标是将大气科学家和应用数学家聚集在一起，目的是促进两组之间的合作，使大气科学家接触到非线性数学的前沿技术，并使数学家参与到模型的层次结构中，这些模型比他们通常使用的理想化模型表现出更大程度的物理现实性。考虑到这一目标，pi将于2015年4月30日至5月2日在堪萨斯大学校园举办一场题为“中西部数学与气候会议”的大气科学与数学会议。会议的重点议题将包括非线性气候动力学、高性能计算、数值分析、云系统行为、数据同化、降维、不确定性量化、模型层次和高级统计方法。将这些不同领域的专门知识的研究人员聚集在一起，将促进数学和大气科学领域之间的知识转移。此外，这次会议将为动力系统、偏微分方程、数值分析、概率论和统计学领域的数学家与气候和更广泛的大气科学领域的研究人员之间的跨学科合作提供强有力的动力。

The Midwest Mathematics and Climate Conference will take place on the campus of the University of Kansas from April 30 to May 2, 2015. The conference shall bring together atmospheric scientists and applied mathematicians to address different aspects of our changing climate, one of the most urgent topics of our time. Bringing together these different groups will facilitate a transfer of knowledge between climate science and mathematics. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity for researchers, especially early-career graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members, to disseminate their results to a broad, interdisciplinary mathematical and scientific community, gaining experience and improving their skills in communication and presentation. The conference will play an active role in motivating and strengthening the relationship between research groups in applied mathematics and atmospheric sciences across universities in the region. Although the scientific basis for the anthropogenic influence on Earth's climate system is well established, substantial uncertainty surrounds important details of climate behavior. Many components of the climate system are substantially nonlinear, suggesting the possibility of "tipping points" or threshold behavior, which may lead to abrupt, irreversible climate change. Although the concepts of nonlinearity, tipping points, and threshold behavior are appreciated by the atmospheric science community, they are typically approached somewhat anecdotally. On the other hand, the applied mathematics community has been exploring these topics in nonlinear systems for many years, though often in highly idealized mathematical frameworks. The goal of this conference is to bring together atmospheric scientists and applied mathematicians with the goal being to foster collaboration between the two groups, to expose atmospheric scientists to cutting-edge techniques in nonlinear mathematics, and to engage mathematicians with a hierarchy of models that exhibit greater degree of physical realism than the idealized models they typically employ. With this goal in mind, the PIs will host a conference on atmospheric science and mathematics with the title "Midwest Mathematics and Climate Conference" from April 30 to May 2, 2015 on the campus of the University of Kansas. Conference topics of emphasis will include nonlinear climate dynamics, high performance computing, numerical analysis, cloud systems behavior, data assimilation, dimension reduction, uncertainty quantification, model hierarchies, and advanced statistical methods. Bringing together researchers with expertise in these different areas will facilitate a transfer of knowledge between mathematics and areas of atmospheric science. Furthermore, the conference will provide strong motivation for interdisciplinary collaboration between mathematicians in dynamical systems, PDEs, numerical analysis, probability theory, and statistics, with researchers in climate and the broader atmospheric sciences.