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projecting the impacts of human management actions and policies on sustainable development. The multiple scales and variability ...
approach with economic considerations. However, these models turned out to be too simplistic for effective management. Currently ...
The oceans contain large amounts of methane, currently in a frozen state, but subject to release if the ocean temperature incre ...
with a relatively coarse-grained spatial-temporal description of modest scope) is well beyond the reach of current-day solvers, ...
Numerous statistical issues arise from dispersed data and diverse data types and sources for agricultural processes and producti ...
that it is worthwhile to investigate the use of more aggregated, simplified models to provide qualitative “back-of-the-envelope” ...
offered at a level to attract a broad collection of students from outside the natural sciences and engineering. A similar course ...
In some cases, these data sets may come from researchers who have engaged with clients, cities, regions and governmental organiz ...
available in executable form only. In both cases, a valuable service would be provided to the scientific community to make these ...
Extend Bayesian and related methods for parameterizing models under uncertainty, including multiple, linked models, and for pro ...
Appendix 5: Mathematical Challenges in Energy Sustainability Authors: Rene Carmona (Princeton University) Doyne Farmer (Santa Fe ...
of living despite possible cuts in energy usage. See for example the discussion of greenhouse gas emissions discussed later. To ...
sectors, mathematicians are too often treated as junior partners, “the technical consultants” instead of the science drivers. Th ...
Sample Research Areas Driven by Energy and Climate Change Challenges Below we identify a series of research areas that hint at t ...
and research and education are sorely needed in this context. This should offer a chance to applied mathematicians to weigh in o ...
Transforming Energy Sources Mathematical research on new materials is key to generate clean and renewable energy and to help man ...
minimize electronic paths (to avoid recombination). This technology is used in remote locations where cost-effective access to l ...
on a single technology. Because of the strong nonlinearities, there may be a very large number of local maxima. The problem is a ...
different energy sources at future dates (will fusion be available, will large-scale storage devices be available, etc.), and ma ...
dimensions. Policy optimization introduces the complex interaction between observing the value of a suboptimal policy, and findi ...
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