This Conference is a Satellite Activity of the 9th European Congress of Mathematics (ECM). Registered participants in the ECM can enjoy a 20% discount in the registration fee (please choose the applicable option when completing your registration).
REGISTRATION FEE
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220€ Regular fee
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175€ Reduced fee for participants of the 9th European Congress of Mathematics – Sevilla 2024
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0€ for CRM researchers
Satellite ECM 2024 Conference: CIEM24
to May 29, 2024
Climate-Inclusive Ecosystem Modeling: Understanding the Dynamics of Ecosystems in a Changing World
Dates: May 27-29, 2024
Location: Auditorium of Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
* Registration will cover coffee breaks, lunchs, wine and cheese reception and a gala dinner.
SCHEDULE
Introduction
In a rapidly changing world, understanding the intricate relationships between climate and ecosystems has become more critical than ever. The “Climate-Inclusive Ecosystem Modeling: Understanding the Dynamics of Ecosystems in a Changing World (CIEM-24)” conference seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and stakeholders to explore and discuss cutting-edge approaches in modeling ecosystems, taking into account the profound influence of climate factors. The conference aims to address a wide range of topics, including theoretical ecology, ordinary and partial differential equations, autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems, multi-scale modelling, stochastic systems, among others, providing a comprehensive understanding of how climate change affects ecosystems and how ecosystem modeling can be enhanced to incorporate these effects.
Participants will delve into the following key areas:
1. Climate-Ecosystem Interactions: Explore the complex interactions between climate parameters and various ecosystems, such as forests, oceans, grasslands, and fresh waters. Understand how climate-induced changes, including temperature shifts, altered precipitation patterns, extreme weather events, and fires impact the structure and functioning of ecosystems, focusing on tipping points and regime shifts.
2. Advancements in Ecosystem Modeling: Showcase the latest advancements in ecosystem modeling techniques, including mathematical models, machine learning, remote sensing, and data-driven approaches. Examine how these models can simulate and predict ecosystem responses to climate change scenarios with greater accuracy and precision.
3. Impacts on Biodiversity and Species Distribution: Analyze the implications of climate change on biodiversity loss, species migration, and habitat alterations. Discuss strategies for preserving vulnerable ecosystems and mitigating potential ecological disruptions.
4. Resilience, Adaptation, and Prevention Strategies: Highlight successful cases of ecosystem resilience and adaptation in the face of climate challenges. Share best practices and innovative solutions that promote ecosystem sustainability and recovery. Model-based solutions to predict fires intensity and propagation.
5. Conservation and Restoration Efforts: Discuss conservation and restoration efforts based on climate-inclusive ecosystem modeling, focusing on ecosystem-based approaches that account for climate dynamics in restoration projects.
This conference aims to stimulate vibrant discussions, facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations, and promote the development of innovative methodologies and scientific works that consider climate as a pivotal factor in ecosystem dynamics. By uniting diverse perspectives and expertise, this conference endeavors to contribute significantly to the growing body of knowledge addressing the urgent need for sustainable management of ecosystems in an ever-changing world.
Organising Committee
Álvaro Corral | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Marc Jorba | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Josep Sardanyés | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Scientific Committee
Camila Artana | Sorbonne University
Marta Coll | Institut de Ciències del Mar
Álvaro Corral | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Jezabel Curbelo | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Ernest Fontich | Universitat de Barcelona – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Josep Sardanyés | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Blai Vidiella | Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
SPEAKERS
David Alonso
Center for Advanced Studies Blanes, CEAB
His primary research interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of ecology and evolution on the basis of the integration of physics, mathematics, biology and computer simulation. In practice, I have been working essentially on two research topics: the evaluation of risks of spread and emergence of infectious diseases as a consequence of human-induced global environmental change and the study of the variety of mechanisms involved in the origins, maintenance and loss of species in ecological communities. Community ecology, population biology, infectious diseases, biodiversity research, climate change, environmental forcing, stochastic birth-death processes, non-linear interactions, self-organization, and complex systems are all common key-words on which my research agenda is focused.
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Susanne Ditlevsen
University of Copenhagen
Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Part of the Section Statistics and Probability Theory. Part of Data Science Laboratory.
MSc in mathematics in 1999 from la Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain. MSc in statistics in 2000 from Department of Mathematical Sciences and PhD in biostatistics in 2005 from Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen. Project-financed statistician 2000-2001, PhD student 2001-2004, Assistant Professor 2004-2007 and Associate Professor from February 2007 at the same place. Moved in September 2007 to the Department of Mathematical Sciences, as full professor from July 2011.
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Transient dynamics and ecological systems
Alan Hastings
University of California
Alan Hastings is a theoretical ecologist with broad interests. Current research focuses on invasive species, marine ecology and fisheries, transient dynamics in ecology, spatial ecology and experiments with Tribolium. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ecological Society of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is also a recipient of the Robert H. MacArthur Award from the Ecological Society of America.
ABSTRACT
Analyses of both models and data in ecology are still focused on equilibrium or long-term dynamics, with some notable exceptions. Although recent work on tipping points does include approaches based both on underlying changing environments and dynamics on different time scales, the possible situations where dynamics on different time scales are important are much more general. Using new mathematical ideas one can address questions of dynamics on ecological time scales, rather than longer times, and include other kinds of underlying environmental change. The importance of this way of analyzing ecological systems is clear in consideration of changing environments due to anthropogenic influences. The analyses demonstrate that there are wide ranges of ecological situations where standard analyses based on assuming asymptotic behavior are misleading. Additional cases where explicit time dependence is included in dynamics shows further complications. Different kinds of situations where long transient behavior is expected can be identified. In particular, adding space, which essentially makes systems very high dimensional, is often likely to lead to long transient dynamics. This work also, unfortunately, points out challenges in trying to identify systems where future sudden shifts in system state due to transients are going to occur, since transient behavior of a system with long transients will be asymptotic or long-term behavior of a corresponding system without transients. Examples of ecological systems illustrating the conclusions, including coral-algal-grazer systems will be discussed in light of the general theoretical results.
Daniel Oro
Center for Advanced Studies Blanes, CEAB
My research interests focus on animal ecology, and more particularly, on the influence of endogenous processes and exogenous stochastic forces driving spatial-temporal population dynamics. Ecological themes that attract my attention are, among others, life history strategies, density-dependence, interference competition within communities, predator-prey dynamics and interactions of biotic components of ecosystems with physical drivers. I am also interested in the non-linear responses of populations to all these processes, and in our ability to anticipate these responses for a better conservation of species and ecosystems.
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Martin Rasmussen
Imperial College London
My research aims at the development of the Qualitative Theory of Nonautonomous and Random Dynamical Systems. In particular, I have made contributions to the following areas:
- stability and attractor theory,
- bifurcation theory,
- theory of invariant manifolds, and
- Morse decomposition theory.
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Natacha Roux
Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE)
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Juan G. Rubalcaba
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
He is an evolutionary ecologist interested in understanding and predicting the responses of animals to environmental changes, particularly in the effect of climate on physiology, energy balance, and animal behavior. Animals exchange heat, water, oxygen, and nutrients with their environment, which determines the energy they can invest in growing and reproducing, their niche (where they can live), the evolution of functional traits such as body size and shape, and their responses to environmental changes. His work combines theoretical models and synthesis of empirical data to understand how the exchange of energy and matter determines these processes.
Focused on animal energetics, he works with different taxa and ecological systems including terrestrial and aquatic ectotherms and endotherms. For example, he is interested in the effects of climate on the thermal physiology and thermoregulatory behavior of reptiles and amphibians; the role of temperature and oxygen availability on the aerobic metabolism of fish; and how environmental conditions modulate the costs of thermoregulation and the energy balance of birds and mammals.
ABSTRACT
A core challenge of our time is to predict how organisms will respond to global environmental change. Yet most of our current predictive tools are correlative (statistical) methods that largely overlook the mechanisms underlying organism-environment interactions and thus have a limited capacity to extrapolate responses to unprecedented environmental scenarios. An emerging area of research is committed to developing mechanistic models to capture these interactions – a multidisciplinary endeavor integrating disparate fields such as thermodynamics, physiology, and evolutionary biology. A starting point towards achieving this integration has been to develop biophysical models describing the balances of heat, water and other aspects of energy and mass exchange between organisms and their environment and translate these into metrics of physiological performance and fitness. I will show recent advances in biophysical modeling and examples ranging from simple calculations of body temperature at specific times and locations, to broad-scale patterns including species distributions across both terrestrial and aquatic realms. I will highlight that biophysical models are opening new grounds of research and have the potential to transform ecology into a predictive science.
Hugo Saiz
EPS-IUCA Universidad de Zaragoza
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Giulio Tirabassi
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Participants have the option to contribute with a talk or a poster presentation. The poster boards that are available at the CRM are DIN A0 format (1189×841 mm). Any poster size within these limits is fine.
To apply, please select the relevant option during the registration process.
- Deadline for submission: April 28th, 2024.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
| Name | Institution |
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| Josep Sardanyés | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Marta Pardo Araujo | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Tomas Alarcon | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Ernest Fontich Julià | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Antoni Guillamon Grabolosa | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| David Romero i Sànchez | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Ceren Ekinci | Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg |
| Basile Guth | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Andrea Suárez Segarra | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Pau Reig Llunell | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Àlex Giménez Romero | Universitat de Les Illes Balears |
| Susanne Ditlevsen | University of Copenhagen |
| Marcel Morillas Rozas | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Mariona Montserrat Fucho Rius | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| ALBA FUSTER ALONSO | Universitat de València |
| Jesús Dueñas | Universidad de Valladolid |
| Madalina Boboc | National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection |
| Juan Vicente Gallego Rubalcaba | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Georgeta Tudor | National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection Bucharest |
| Hugo Saiz | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| Axel Maso-Puigdellosas | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Elena Holban | National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection Bucharest |
| Lucian Laslo | Incdpm Bucharest |
| Gyorgy DEAK | National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection Bucharest |
| Miguel Alvarez | IFISC (Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos) |
| Alan Hastings | University of California |
| Monica Matei | National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection Bucharest |
| Martin Rasmussen | Imperial College London |
| Lilia Mercedes Ladino Martínez | Universidad de los Llanos |
| Alvaro Corral | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Marc Jorba-Cuscó | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Oriol Llopis Almela | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
| Teodoro Mayayo | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Pablo Almaraz Garcia | CSIC |
| Jorge Mestre Tomás | Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) - CSIC |
| Ebrima CHAM | Center for socioeconomic policy environmental research climate change and social development |
| Blai Vidiella Rocamora | Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) |
INVOICE/PAYMENT INFORMATION
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