Mathematical Models and Methods for Planet Earth

✍ Scribed by Alessandra Celletti, Ugo Locatelli, Tommaso Ruggeri, Elisabetta Strickland (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Series: Springer INdAM Series 6
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 2013 several scientific activities have been devoted to mathematical researches for the study of planet Earth. The current volume presents a selection of the highly topical issues presented at the workshop “Mathematical Models and Methods for Planet Earth”, held in Roma (Italy), in May 2013. The fields of interest span from impacts of dangerous asteroids to the safeguard from space debris, from climatic changes to monitoring geological events, from the study of tumor growth to sociological problems. In all these fields the mathematical studies play a relevant role as a tool for the analysis of specific topics and as an ingredient of multidisciplinary problems. To investigate these problems we will see many different mathematical tools at work: just to mention some, stochastic processes, PDE, normal forms, chaos theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Mathematics of Planet Earth....Pages 1-10
The Role of Boundary Layers in the Large-scale Ocean Circulation....Pages 11-24
Noise-induced Periodicity: Some Stochastic Models for Complex Biological Systems....Pages 25-35
Kinetic Equations and Stochastic Game Theory for Social Systems....Pages 37-57
Using Mathematical Modelling as a Virtual Microscope to Support Biomedical Research....Pages 59-71
Ferromagnetic Models for Cooperative Behavior: Revisiting Universality in Complex Phenomena....Pages 73-86
The Near Earth Asteroid Hazard and Mitigation....Pages 87-97
Mathematical Models of Textual Data: A Short Review....Pages 99-110
Space Debris Long Term Dynamics....Pages 111-121
Mathematical Models for Socio-economic Problems....Pages 123-134
Climate as a Complex Dynamical System....Pages 135-142
Periodic Orbits of the N -body Problem with the Symmetry of Platonic Polyhedra....Pages 143-155
Superprocesses as Models for Information Dissemination in the Future Internet....Pages 157-170
Back Matter....Pages 171-174

✦ Subjects

Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Earth Sciences, general; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climate, general; Mathematical Methods in Physics