Networks

Modern methods of mathematical modelling and simulation have proven to be a fundamental resource for scientific and technological progress. With their help, expensive and energy-intensive experiments in basic research in industry and natural science can be avoided, predictions can be made in dangerous or impossible experiments (including climate, environment) and risks of new technologies can be assessed. Methods from very different areas of mathematics are applied. Problems can be analysed on all spatial and time scales and at different levels of complexity: from the company to the world economy, from the local environmental event to the global climate model. Often, the methods can be used not only in the respective application context, but also in completely different branches of science.

The aim of the Leibniz Research Network MMS is to systematically exploit this potential for effectiveness and to use it for synergies. The central question here is which methods from current mathematical research are the most suitable, fastest and most error-resistant, and how existing software and hardware resources can be used sustainably.

In the environmental sciences (Section E of the Leibniz Association, to which ATB also belongs), MMS is used in the field of climate and atmospheric research, e.g. in models for the statistical simulation of regional climate change, in various models for simulating dynamic processes in the atmosphere or for modelling and simulating the temporal change of deformation and mass transport, and in modelling heat and mass transport in the subsurface.

The network is coordinated by the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS).

In the context of climate and social change and their effects, cross-disciplinary solution strategies are needed for the transformation towards a healthy and sustainable food system. The Leibniz Research Network ‘Green Nutrition – Healthy Society’ combines expertise from the fields of healthy nutrition, health, biodiversity, the environment, climate change, food production and sustainable development, as well as their social relevance. ‘Green nutrition’ encompasses both nutritionally optimal nutrition and resource-efficient food production, processing and distribution.
 

The network's goals are, in addition to scientific exchange, the identification of specific research needs on current issues in the field of healthy and sustainable nutrition; the initiation of interdisciplinary cooperation, far-sighted support for young scientists and career development; as well as the establishment of an active exchange with political actors and a regular transfer of knowledge in politics and the public.