2013 will be a special year of emphasis on the Mathematics of Planet Earth, interpreted as broadly as possible. Earth is a planet with dynamic processes in the mantle, oceans and atmosphere creating climate, causing natural disasters, and influencing fundamental aspects of life and life-supporting systems. In addition to these natural processes, humans have developed systems of great complexity, including economic and financial systems; the World Wide Web; frameworks for resource management, transportation, and energy production and utilization; health care delivery; and social organizations. Human activity has increased to the point where it influences the global climate, impacts the ability of the planet to feed itself and threatens the stability of these systems. Issues such as climate change, sustainability, man-made disasters, control of diseases and epidemics, management of resources, risk analysis, and global integration have come to the fore.

Mathematics plays a key role in these and many other processes affecting Planet Earth, both as a fundamental discipline and as an essential component of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research.

FOCUS ON RESEARCH     Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 will focus mathematical research in these fields, provide a platform to showcase the essential relevance of mathematics to planetary problems, coalesce activities currently dispersed among institutions, and create a context for mathematical and interdisciplinary developments that will be necessary in order to address a myriad of issues and meet global challenges in the future.

VENUE     Activities will take place around the planet. Several thematic activities will be organized jointly by more than one institute.

PARTNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE INVITED TO JOIN.

TYPE OF ACTIVITIES TO TAKE PLACE AT MATHEMATICS OF PLANET EARTH Thematic Programs, workshops, collaborative research groups, summer schools, activities for the public and the media, activities in K-12 Education, special Issues of Scientific Journals.

With the support of theInternational Mathematical Union (IMU), theInternational Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) and theInternational Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM).