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