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Math Encounters — Online:

“Airy Predictions: The Mathematics of Air Quality and Weather Forecasts”
with Kristin Lauter

Wednesday, September 2 at 4:00 pm ET (New York)

The mathematics of weather prediction has a long history, using quantitative models of the atmosphere and initial measurements of temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, and density to generate forecasts.  Air quality in cities is also influenced by atmospheric conditions, so this type of modeling takes on an even greater importance.  Join Kristin Lauter of Microsoft Research as she shares her work on Project Eclipse, a dense sensor network being deployed in cities to help model air quality, and explains how math is used not just to forecast the weather but in an effort to improve our public health.

Special introduction by Jennifer Chayes, UC Berkeley Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and Dean of the School of Information.

This is a live-streamed event.  Occasional video recordings are made available for a fee at videos.momath.org.

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Math Encounters is MoMath’s popular free public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics, produced with support from the Simons Foundation.

For further information, call the National Museum of Mathematics at 212-542-0566 or e-mail mathencounters@momath.org.

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When
September 2nd, 2020 from  4:00 pm to  5:30 pm
Location
MoMath Online
(Zoom link will be emailed after registration)
United States
Contact
Phone: (212) 542-0566