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Applied math seminar, Alejandro Aceves, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist U.

Event Type: 
Seminar
Speaker: 
Applied math seminar, Alejandro Aceves, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist U.
Event Date: 
Monday, November 22, 2021 -
3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Zoom Meeting
Audience: 
General PublicFaculty/StaffStudentsAlumni/Friends
Sponsor/s: 
Pavel Lushnikov

Event Description: 

Title: Modeling climate change: A dynamical systems approach
 
Abstract: Addressing climate change from different perspectives is without question an urgent need. Climate research is a complex subject; one where tools from applied mathematics can contribute to its understanding and impact. This talk will concentrate in relatively simple models based on dynamical systems, with particular emphasis
on the dynamics of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) . In turn, I hope to convince the audience that despite its simplicity, such studies can shed light in such an important topic.

Bio: Dr. Alejandro Aceves earned his MS in Applied Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in 1983 and his PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona in 1988. Between 1989 and 2008, he moved through the ranks from Assistant to Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of New Mexico, where he held the position of Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics between 2004 and 2008. He is currently Professor and former Department Chair of Mathematics  at Southern Methodist University. He has had visiting positions at Brown University, Universita di Brescia, Italy, University of Limoges and University of Rouen, France and Deusto Tech, Bilbao.  His main research area has been in modeling in Nonlinear Optics and Photonics.  In 2016, he was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and in 2021, he was elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).