Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change: International Conference and Advanced School Planet Earth, Portugal, March 21-28, 2013 (CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences Book 2)

The focus of this volume is research carried out as part of the program __Mathematics of Planet Earth__, which provides a platform to showcase the essential role of mathematics in addressing planetary problems and creating a context for mathematicians and applied scientists to foster mathematical and interdisciplinary developments that will be necessary to tackle a myriad of issues and meet future global challenges. Earth is a planet with dynamic processes in its mantle, oceans and atmosphere creating climate, causing natural disasters and influencing fundamental aspects of life and life-supporting systems. In addition to these natural processes, human activity has increased to the point where it influences the global climate, impacts the ability of the planet to feed itself and threatens the stability of these systems. Issues such as climate change, sustainability, man-made disasters, control of diseases and epidemics, management of resources, risk analysis and global integration have come to the fore. Written by specialists in several fields of mathematics and applied sciences, this book presents the proceedings of the International Conference and Advanced School Planet Earth, Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change held in Lisbon, Portugal, in March 2013, which was organized by the International Center of Mathematics (CIM) as a partner institution of the international program __Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013__. The book presents the state of the art in advanced research and ultimate techniques in modeling natural, economical and social phenomena. It constitutes a tool and a framework for researchers and graduate students, both in mathematics and applied sciences. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Max-Stability at Work (or Not): Estimating Return Levels for Daily Rainfall Data....Pages 1-14 Impacts of Vaccination and Behavior Change in the Optimal Intervention Strategy for Controlling the Transmission of Tuberculosis....Pages 15-38 Modeling of Extremal Earthquakes....Pages 39-60 Detonation Wave Solutions and Linear Stability in a Four Component Gas with Bimolecular Chemical Reaction....Pages 61-82 Mathematical Aspects of Coagulation-Fragmentation Equations....Pages 83-162 Resampling-Based Methodologies in Statistics of Extremes: Environmental and Financial Applications....Pages 163-181 On the Optimal Control of Flow Driven Dynamic Systems....Pages 183-189 An Overview of Network Bifurcations in the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard Free Energy....Pages 191-214 The Economics of Ethanol: Use of Indirect Policy Instruments....Pages 215-227 Geostatistical Analysis in Extremes: An Overview....Pages 229-245 Reducing the Minmax Regret Robust Shortest Path Problem with Finite Multi-scenarios....Pages 247-262 Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change: From the Solar Radiation to the Impacts of Regional Projections....Pages 263-295 Infinite Horizon Optimal Control for Resources Management in Agriculture....Pages 297-305 Distributed Reasoning....Pages 307-316 Multiscale Internet Statistics: Unveiling the Hidden Behavior....Pages 317-338 The Role of Clouds, Aerosols and Galactic Cosmic Rays in Climate Change....Pages 339-344 Long Time Behaviour and Self-similarity in an Addition Model with Slow Input of Monomers....Pages 345-364 Modelling the Fixed Bed Adsorption Dynamics of CO2/CH4 in 13X Zeolite for Biogas Upgrading and CO2 Sequestration....Pages 365-375 Detection of Additive Outliers in Poisson INAR(1) Time Series....Pages 377-388 From Ice to Penguins: The Role of Mathematics in Antarctic Research....Pages 389-414 Back Matter....Pages 415-430 "This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference and Advanced School Planet Earth, Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change held in Lisbon, Portugal, in March 2013, which was organized by the International Center of Mathematics (CIM) as a partner institution of the international program Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013"--Publisher information