- Series
- Other Talks
- Time
- Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- IBB 1128
- Speaker
- Christopher Jones – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Mathematics
- Organizer
- Howie Weiss
Please Note: Joint colloquium between the School of Physics & the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences hosted by Predrag Cvitanovi. To schedule a meeting with the speaker.
Computational models of the Earth system lie at the heart of modern climate
science. Concerns about their predictions have been illegitimately used to
undercut the case that the climate is changing and this has put dynamical
systems in an awkward position. I will discuss ways that we, as a community,
can contribute by highlighting some of the major outstanding questions that
drive climate science, and I will outline their mathematical dimensions. I
will put a particular focus on the issue of simultaneously handling the
information coming from data and models. I will argue that this balancing
act will impact the way in which we formulate problems in dynamical systems.