Posts By: MPE CDT

We are pleased to announce students led symposium on MATHEMATICS OF PLANET OCEAN: THEORY, MODELS AND OBSERVATIONS on 18 May 2022 . Speakers for the Symposium include: Alberto Naveira Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton), Marilena Oltmanns (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton), Wei Pan (ICL), Pauline Tedesco (ICL), Matthew Crowe (University College London) and Laura Cimoli (Scripps… Read more »

A virtual summer school on ‘Attribution, causality, and decision-making in climate variability and change’, consisting of both lectures and practical sessions, will run from June 6-10, 2022. Topics will include: • Event attribution • Trend attribution • Philosophical issues in attribution • Causality • Decision-making The school is primarily aimed at MPE CDT graduate students… Read more »

On behalf of  MPE CDT, we are pleased to announce the Mathematics of Planet Earth’ Exhibition 2022. We warmly invite you to visit the ‘Mathematics of Planet Earth’ Exhibition, which will be displayed in the main entrance of Imperial’s South Kensington Campus, between Saturday 28th May – Sunday 5th June 2022. Free entry – all welcome! About the… Read more »

Date: Wednesday 19th January 2022 Key Speaker and Guests: Gonzalo Gonzalez De Diego (DPhil at Mathematical Institute, Oxford University))Oana Lang (STUOD Research Associate at Mathematics Department, ICL)Tobias Schwedes (Senior Data Scientist at Faculty) Event Schedule:  15:00- 15:10: Zoom call opens and Welcome 15:10 – 15:55: Gonzalo Gonzalez De Deigo on ‘Numerical approximation of viscous contact problems in glaciology’ 15:55… Read more »

Key Speaker and Guests: Prof Gavin Esler (Professor of Applied Mathematics, UCL)Dr David Ham (Reader in Computational Mathematics, Mathematics Department, ICL)Dr Zoe Goss (Renewable Technology Engineer at Frazer-Nash)Dr Josephine Park (Principal Data Scientist at UK Health Security Agency) Programme Schedule : 14.30 Prof Gavin Esler on ‘Can jet formation in beta-plane turbulence ever be described by a… Read more »

On Wednesday 6th October 2021 the MPECDT held a meeting to launch the new academic year.  It was held in The Meadow Suite, Park House, University of Reading and it was the first time in eighteen months that students and staff were able to gather together indoors.  Professors Jennifer Scott and Dan Crisan welcomed everyone… Read more »

The Mathematic of Planet Earth – Centre for Doctoral Training (MPE-CDT) jointly with the WMO/WWRP Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification Research (JWGFVR, https://community.wmo.int/wwrp-jwgfvr) held a virtual summer school on forecast verification on the 21-25 June 2021. The school consisted in 10 theoretical lectures, complemented by some practical assignments; several drop-in sessions, for questions and… Read more »

To celebrate Earth Day, students from Cohort Echo of the Mathematics of Planet Earth Centre for Doctoral Training took the message of the importance of Climate Change into a local Secondary School. Groups of three or four students sent material about Earth Day, global warming and their own studies to four different Year 8 forms… Read more »

We are happy to announce that the 2021 student led Symposium is going to take place on the 19th of May. The theme of the Symposium is Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality (WIDE) in Science.  The event will feature two main talks given by Dr. Freya Garry (MET Office) and Dr Tanvir Hussain (University of… Read more »

A three day Hackathon will take place on  29 -31 March. This is as part of our annual MPE Jamboree which this year takes place entirely online. The Hackathon is organised by the STUOD network (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ocean-dynamics-synergy/ ). Details of the event can be found here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/129398/stuods-hackathon/ . The MPECDT students are required to register on this link…. Read more »

Please see the schedule below for more information. The event will be held via Zoom. The link and joining instructions will be sent to all MPE-CDT staff and students. External participants please email mpe.admin@imperial.ac.uk to register your interest for the event. Date: Wednesday 10th February 2021  13:00 – 15:30 Key Speaker and Guests: Peter Dueben (Royal Society Fellow, Research… Read more »

Summary:  The purpose of this meeting is to coordinate the expertise of a transdisciplinary groups at the interfaces of mathematics, high precision satellite ocean observations and large-scale scientific computation as well as to ensure professional capacity building and sharing best practices in the early career development in the national/regional ecosystems.  Format and scope:   The… Read more »

We are pleased to announce our Inaugural MPE Wednesday for the academic year 2020/21 held on 14th October from 13:45. Professor Potthast will be our inaugural lecturer, abstract and information on his talk can be found below. Please see the schedule below for information on talks. The event will be held via Zoom. The link and joining instructions will be sent to… Read more »

MATHEMATICS OF PLANET EARTH CDT VIRTUAL SCHOOL “Modern data-based and complex systems approaches to climate dynamics” Running between 29 September and 27 October 2020   This on-line school, which is aimed at graduate students in mathematics and climate dynamics, is organized by the MPE CDT (mpecdt.org). It will involve lectures and a project component. It… Read more »

WEDNESDAY 1ST APRIL at HENLEY BUSINESS SCHOOL , G11, University of Reading Flyer can be downloaded here: SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM Schedule: 9:00 Arrival 09:30 – 09:55 PROFESSOR ED HAWKINS. Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading 09:55 – 10:20 DR ERINMA OCHU MBE. Curator, Engaging Environments and Digital Society Fellow, University of Reading 10:20 – 10:40 Break 10:40… Read more »

On Friday, 24th January the MPE-CDT’s cohort Echo had a fantastic time visiting the ECMWF in Reading.  It was a great afternoon where students had an overview and researches conducted in ECMWF and had a chance to discuss reanalysis, weather discussion, data/models for research OpenIFS and the climate data.  

The MPE CDT warmly invites you to visit the ‘Mathematics of Planet Earth’ Exhibition, which will be displayed in the main entrance of Imperial’s South Kensington Campus, between Saturday 15 February – Sunday 23 February 2020. Free entry – all welcome! About the exhibition Mathematics of Planet Earth is an international exhibition displaying exhibits, videos and computer… Read more »

Congratulations to Prof Dan Crisan and Prof Darryl Holm who have won a €10 million European Research Council grant to study how oceans are responding to climate change. More information about their project can be found here.

Summer school in Ghana and the SWIFT project This July I had the amazing experience of finally visiting the country that I have spent the past 18 months reading about and trying to understand the rainfall patterns over, namely Ghana. Despite spending my days staring at rainfall data, I only got to experience 2 days… Read more »

We are pleased to present our MPE Wednesday Seminar Series for the Academic Year 2021/22. This series will be given by climate and weather scientists, industrial partners and mathematicians who will present an overview of their current research activity and how it’s shaping and contributing to tackle global challenges in oceans, weather and climate. Date… Read more »