iFAST Session: Mathematical ecology

International Forum on Advanced Environmental Sciences and Technology (iFAST)

The International Forum on Advanced Environmental Sciences and Technology (iFAST) aims to invite distinguished scientists  to highlight grand challenges, frontier questions, and opportunities in environmental science and technology as well as potential solutions to on-going environmental challenges. The seminars will focus on fundamental research and will primarily pertain to topics such as climate change, environmental protection, theoretical ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, evolutionary biology, microbial ecology, geosciences, and environmental genomics.

Session 1 Mathematical ecology: A century of progress, and challenges for the next century

The subject of mathematical ecology is one of the oldest and most exciting in mathematical biology and has helped in the management of natural systems and infectious diseases. Though many problems remain in those areas, we face new challenges today in finding ways to cooperate in managing our Global Commons. From behavioral and evolutionary perspectives, our societies display conflict of purpose or fitness across levels, leading to game-theoretic problems in understanding how cooperation emerges in Nature, and how it might be realized in dealing with problems of the Global Commons. This lecture will attempt to weave these topics together, tracing the evolution from earlier work to challenges for the future.

The iFAST seminars are free and open to the public. Registration is required to receive a webinar link. 

Registeration link: http://ieg4.rccc.ou.edu/seminar/register.cgi

(Originally from https://www.ou.edu/ieg/seminars)