GUMS^2 Math Climate Day

On May 10th 2024 in MS 325 our 3rd Math Climate Day event took take place at the University of Calgary.

We had a day full of presentations, workshops and discussions about how we as mathematicians (and statisticians) can solve climate-change related problems, such as climate modeling and enablling the expansion of renewable energies. Everyone is welcome, regardless if undergraduate student, graduate student, postdoc, faculty or externals. Although the event is mainly focused on mathematics and statistics, participans from other areas (e.g. physics, geoscience, engineering) are also encouraged to come.

If you want to help organize the next iteration please sign up here: https://forms.gle/rnBejnGsipbWaCs6A

Schedule

10:00 am : Beginning with cookies and coffee

10:20 am :  Dr. Jed Kaplan (University of Calgary, Department of earth, energy and envrionment): Mathematical modeling of global vegetation and wildfire: History and applications

11:10 am : Dr. Matthew Greenberg (University of Calgary, Department of mathematics): The Math of Public Transit

12:00 pm : Dr. Jessica Hernandez (Piña Soul, an indigenous envrionmental consulting agency): Indigenous Science: From Local to Global Context

 1:00 pm : Lunch with free pizza

 2:00 pm : Doris Choi (Toronto and Region conservation authority): Application of IPMVP to Heat Pump Projects

 2:50 pm : Leonard Olien (University of Calgary): Balancing Decarbonization, Affordability and Reliability in Electricity Markets

Abstracts can be found here .

Slides can be found here here.

For further questions, feel free to conatact me at florian dot schwarz at ucalgary dot ca.

This event was organized by GUMS^2, the Graduate University of Calgary Mathematics and Statistics society, see our website here: https://gums.quarto.pub/gums/