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Shown at the Mathematics of Planet Earth annual exhibition in May 2022, the Wetropolis exhibit demonstrates the effect of extreme rainfall and flood. The Demonstrator was made by Professor Onno Bokhove as part of the Data Assimilation for the REsilient City (DARE) research project and network funded by an EPSRC Senior Fellowship in Digital Technology for… Read more »

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 »

This event will be co-hosted with the Scenario Doctoral Training Partnership and will take place at The University of Reading, room 109, The Palmer Building Programme: Coffee and Tea available from 10.30 11.00: Welcome from Jennifer Scott 11.00-11.45  Dr Samuel Hatfield, ECMWF (Chaired by Jennifer Scott) ‘Millibars and Megabytes’  Over the past 40 years there has… 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 »

In Summer 2021, MPE CDT Echo Students took part in nine-week research internships with either the Met Office or the Hong Kong Observatory. These were carried out remotely, although some were able to meet their Met Office supervisor in person. On 10 November 2021 they presented the results of their research at a meeting held… 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 »

The Mathematics of Planet Earth Centre for Doctoral Training is pleased to announce its 2021 summer school. This forecast verification virtual summer school will consist of lectures (with theory and practical assignments) and a group project component. The lecture component will consist of approximately two hours of lectures each day, followed by practical assignments. Participants… Read more »

Elena Saggioro will give an informal talk at the MPE Reading coffee meeting (via Zoom) 10.30 on 18 May: ‘My Policy Internship at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: things I have done and learned’. If you would like to attend email mpe-admin@reading.ac.uk for the Zoom call details.

We’re pleased to announce that our lunchtime Cafe meeting on 12 May 2021 will comprise a number of talks given by our students at recent or upcoming vEGU and SIAM conferences. Coincidentally, 12 May is the anniversary of Women in Maths, and these talks will be given by MPECDT women. Please contact mpe-admin@reading.ac.uk if you… 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 »

LATEST UPDATE!!! Very many thanks to the 46 people who took part in our fundraising event.  We raised £235 for the Berkshire Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust. — To support Earth Day on 22nd April 2021, The Mathematics of Planet Earth Centre for Doctoral Training invites you to take part in our “5K Your Way”… 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 »

Date and Time: Wednesday, 8 May – 11:00-12.00 Location: EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training Suite, South Kensington Campus, the ICSM Building, Level 4N, Room 402 Speaker: Professor Sofia Olhede Title: Modeling Network Populations via Graph Distances Abstract: Networks are a key tool to characterise dependence between nodes or actors. Modern observations often take the form of many… Read more »

Date and Time: Wednesday, 6 March⋅12:00 – 1:00pm Location: EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training Suite, South Kensington Campus, the ICSM Building, Level 4N, Room 402 Speaker: Prof. Kody Law Title: Inference with Multilevel Monte Carlo Abstract: This talk will concern the problem of inference when the posterior involves continuous models which require approximation before inference… Read more »

Date : 1 st – 5th July 2019 Location: 402, 4th Floor, ICSM Building, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Rd, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2AZ In this workshop we address the challenge of combining stochastic data-driven mathematical modelling with effective data assimilation techniques in high-dimensional operational systems. The aim of the event is to expose cutting-edge results in stochastic… Read more »

Applications are invited from PhD students to attend a one-week course on “Multiscale analysis of atmosphere-ocean flows and related numerical issues”. The course, which will be held at the Met Office in Exeter, is being run by the MPE CDT and the Met Office. The course will be attended by the MPE CDT students who are… Read more »

Date and Time: Wednesday, 13 February, 11.00-12.00 Location: EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training Suite, South Kensington Campus, the ICSM Building, Level 4N, Room 402 Speaker: Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh) Title Surrogate models in Bayesian inverse problems Abstract: We are interested in the inverse problem of estimating unknown parameters in a mathematical model from observed data. We follow… Read more »

Date and Time: Wednesday, 6 February⋅1:00 – 2:00pm Location: Slingo LT, JJT Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading Title: Trends in UK Peak Flow Data: When did they start? Speaker: Adam Griffin (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) Abstract: There is currently a great deal of interest in the potential effects of climate and environmental change on… Read more »

On 6 December 2018, six MPE CDT students (Mariana Clare, Zoe Goss, Adriaan Hilbers, Imogen Dell, Niraj Agarwal and Matthew Garrod) volunteered their time to participate in the Xmaths Imperial Lates event. Imperial Lates are the College’s series of after work free public events where different research themes are brought to life by the creativity… Read more »

We are pleased to present our MPE Wednesday Seminar Series for term 2 of the Academic Year 2018/19. 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… Read more »

Date: 28th November 2018 Organizers: Thomas Cass and Dan Crisan Location: All talks to be held at the EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training Suite at the South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London Abstract: This is a one-day workshop that aims to bring together researchers from two sister areas Data Assimilation and Nonlinear Filtering. The morning session will… Read more »

In July of 2018, I set off on my first ever trip to east Asia. I was to be the first of three students from Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) to engage in the first research collaboration with the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). The opportunity had initially presented itself in… Read more »

University of Reading, NCAS Seminar Series, Friday 5th October 10am, Met GU01 TITLE Stochastically Generated Skew: Implications for Forecast Probabilities ABSTRACT The salient non-Gaussian features of observed climatological distributions are captured by so-called stochastically generated skewed (SGS) distributions that include Gaussian distributions as special cases. SGS distributions are associated with damped linear Markov processes perturbed… Read more »

Cohort 2015 students will be presenting their projects from this summer’s MetOffice placements, in addition to several Cohort 2016 students who undertook collaborations at the Hong Kong Observatory. The presentations will take place at the University of Reading on October 17th 2018, the agenda can be see here

We are pleased to present our MPE Wednesday Seminar Series for term 1 of the Academic Year 2018/19. 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…. Read more »

We are excited to announce that our annual residential Kick-off Camp will be taking place at the University of Reading from 10th – 20th September 2018. Kick-off Camp combines a challenging academic programme with some exciting and extremely interesting enrichment activities to create a memorable training experience. The tentative timetable for 2018 is available here.

Dr Valerio Lucarini, professor of Statistical Mechanics in the School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences, and director of the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth, was announced as a winner of a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society (LMS) on Friday. It recognises his work applying complex maths to climate science. He… Read more »

Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) was started and continues to be consolidated as a collaboration of mathematical science organisations around the world. These organisations work together to tackle global environmental, social and economic problems using mathematics. This textbook introduces the fundamental topics of MPE to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, physics and engineering… Read more »

On Friday 11th May, the University of Reading SIAM-IMA student chapter held their annual conference attended by over 30 staff and students with backgrounds in mathematics, statistics and meteorology. There was heavy MPE student involvement, both in the organising committee as well as participation in the conference. Keynote talks were given by Dr Mariano Beguerisse… Read more »

The Institute of Physics’ Nonlinear and held their Spring meeting on Wednesday the 30th of May this year. The event which was entitled “Graph Theory and Physics” was held at Imperial College London. The event attracted approximately 30 attendees from a wide variety of disciplines, both from Imperial College and other institutions around the country…. Read more »

The Mathematics of Planet Earth CDT welcomes you to 2018 edition of the CDT Science Festival on Science and Ethics. The CDT Science Festival is an event organised every year by MRes + PhD students of various Centres of Doctoral Training (CDTs) present at Imperial College London that involves and celebrates scientific research from diverse… Read more »

A large amount of the research carried out at Imperial College is highly interdisciplinary in nature. The field of Network science is no exception to this. “Network scientists” study the behaviour of complex interconnected systems which are often represented mathematically by graphs or complex networks. Examples of these systems include: social networks, transportation networks, such… Read more »

The EPSRC RCUK Innovation Fellowship is on  Multivariate Max-stable Processes with Application to the Forecasting of Multiple Hazards. Over the next three years this Fellowship aims to build a world leading research team in statistical modelling of the structural components that capture how extremes from multiple phenomena (hence the prefix multivariate) are likely to manifest themselves jointly across… Read more »