Acknowledgements
The editors wish to express their sincere appreciation to Julie Rehmeyer,the Science Writer for this project.
The author and editors wish to acknowledge the organizing committee ofthe workshop on Mathematical Challenges for Sustainability, on which this report
was based, without whose hard work both the workshop and this report would
not have been possible:
- Alejandro Adem, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
- Russell Caflisch, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
- Lou Gross, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
(NIMBios) - Iain Johnston, Former Chair, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Advisory Committee to NSF - Simon Levin, co-Author of Toward a Science of Sustainability
- Fred Roberts, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical
Computer Science (DIMACS) - Christiane Rousseau, Centre de Recherches Mathematique (CRM) and
Chair of Program Mathematics of Planet Earth - Richard Smith, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
(SAMSI)
We would like to thank the National Science Foundation (NSF) for making
the workshop on the Mathematical Challenges for Sustainability possible as well
as for encouraging research involving mathematical and statistical scientists on
issues of sustainability. In particular, we would like to thank the Division of
Mathematical Sciences at NSF for their sponsorship of the workshop. We also
wish to thank the Canadian Mathematical Sciences Institutes, which supported
Canadian participation in the workshop, through support from the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
The cover design is by Barbara Cozzens, who also provided substantialassistance with the images included in the report. Getty images provided most of
the photos.
A special thank you goes to the American Mathematical Society, whichhas been very helpful in arranging to publish and circulate this report..