CIM International Conferences and Advanced Schools Planet Earth, Portugal 2013

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The International Center of Mathematics CIM is a partner institution of the International Program Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE 2013). CIM plans to organize and support several activities in the scope of International Program Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE 2013).

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To this extent, CIM is organizing the following CIM International Conferences and CIM Advanced schools Planet Earth:

MECC 2013 - International Conference and Advanced School Planet Earth, Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change, 18-28 March 2013.
Keynote speakers and school lecturers: Inês Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Richard James, University of Minnesota, USA; Christopher K. R. T. Jones, University of North Carolina, USA; Pedro Miranda, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; Keith Promislow, Michigan State University, USA; Richard L. Smith, University of North Carolina, USA; José Xavier, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

DGS 2013 - International Conference and Advanced School Planet Earth, Dynamics, Games and Science, 26 August to 7 September 2013.
Keynote speakers and school lecturers: Michel Benaim, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Jim Cushing, University of Arizona, USA; João Lopes Dias, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal; Pedro Duarte, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; Diogo Gomes, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal; Yunping Jiang, City University of New York, USA; Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Studies, USA (schedule permitting); Jorge Pacheco, Universidade do Minho, Portugal; David Rand, University of Warwick, UK; Martin Shubik, Yale University, USA (video lecture); Satoru Takahashi, Princeton University, USA; Marcelo Viana, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada IMPA, Brazil.

The first two volumes of the CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences published by Springer-Verlag will consist of selected works presented in the conferences Mathematics of Planet Earth (CIM-MPE). The editors of these first two volumes are Jean Pierre Bourguignon, Rolf Jeltsch, Alberto Pinto and Marcelo Viana.