Among others, Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 will include programs on
- Weather, climate, and environment
- Health, human and social services
- Planetary resources
- Population dynamics, ecology and genomics of species
- Energy utilization and efficiency
- Connecting the Planet together
- Geophysical processes
- Global economics, safety and stability
As illustrated by the following (non exhaustive) list of problem areas:
- Climate modeling and climate change
- Weather prediction
- Modeling of extreme events: tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Environmetrics
- Forecasting for resources management
- Mathematical and statistical methods in geodesy, geomatics and teledetection
- Economics and finance of climate risk and natural resources
- Energy generation, distribution, allocation, and efficiency of utilization
- Statistical methods for large, complex data sets
- Collective dynamics and game theory
- Mathematical ecology and evolution
- Epidemiology: modeling, prediction and control of epidemics
- Mathematical and statistical challenges arising in genetics
- Connecting the planet together: the web graph
- The mathematics of transportation
- Celestial mechanics: the Planet system and the link with climate variations
