Mathematics of Mass Extinctions Research Network

Our Goals:

The network's primary goal is to promote a mathematical approach to understanding extinction events in Earth history, particularly:

•  summarize and revisit existing modeling approaches to mass extinction events and explore potential models, including excitable dynamical systems, non-autonomous dynamical systems, noisy/stochastic dynamical systems, etc.

• identify mathematical techniques for modeling and analyzing fossil data, including state-of-the-art statistical and AI tools.

• motivate mathematical scientists to engage in interdisciplinary mass extinction research through network events.

• develop measures to engage the general audience in comprehending the fragility of our biosphere using a mathematical approach.