LMS/IMA Joint Meeting 2024
The LMS is delighted to announce the 2024 LMS/IMA Joint Meeting on 'Mathematics for the Environment'.
Our environment is a complex, ever-evolving system of diverse physical processes operating and interacting at varying scales in both space and time. Analysing and quantifying these processes not only reveals important insights into the world around us but enables us to better assess the impacts of human activities, climate change, and biodiversity loss, essential for developing sustainable practices and protecting our planet. The mathematics involved in environmental research spans numerous branches, providing crucial tools such as methods for handling and analysing large multifaceted datasets, mathematical models for complex dynamical systems, and algorithms for efficient optimisation and simulation. The aim of this meeting is to bring together experts from a broad range of mathematical disciplines to highlight current research developments within this important area, and to share knowledge of how mathematics is used to enhance our understanding of the environment and address environmental challenges.
We welcome all who are interested to attend this event, with registration open both to LMS/IMA Members and to non-members.
Programme (all timings in BST)
| 10:30 |
Welcome and refreshments |
| 11:00 |
Welcome from LMS and IMA |
| 11:30 |
Rebecca Killick (Lancaster University) Change and the Environment: A journey of statisticians and environmental scientists |
| 12:30 |
Vera Melinda Galfi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Mathematical insights into climate extremes |
| 13:30 | LUNCH |
| 14:30 |
Christina Cobbold (University of Glasgow) The role of individuals and their traits in determining the impacts of environmental change: from blowflies to mosquitoes. |
| 15:30 |
Onno Bokhove (University of Leeds) Visualising return periods of extreme flooding events and visualising cost-effectiveness of flood-mitigation measures |
| 16:30 | BREAK |
| 17:00 |
Panel Jochen Broecker (Deputy Director, Mathematics for our Future Climate CDT, University of Reading) The panel will be chaired by Prof Valerio Lucarini (University of Leicester). |
| 18:00 | Reception |
| 19:30 | Society dinner |
Full list of, speakers, titles and abstracts can be viewed here.
Please note that speakers and timings are subject to change.
Organising Committee; Victor Shrira (Keele University), Emiko Dupont (University of Bath), Francisco de Melo Viríssimo (LSE).
Accessibility
The building currently has stepped access only to the raised ground floor and lower ground floor entrances
An accessible toilet is located at lower ground floor level.
Please see the LMS website for further details on accessibility
Registration
- Click here for in-person registration.
- Click here for online registration. You will receive the link to the meeting upon registration, as well as an automated reminder email sent closer to the time.
- Please note that registration for the Society Dinner has closed.
- If you have any queries on any of the above, please contact lmsmeetings@lms.ac.uk