Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors [Hardcover]

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 'Forum Math-for-Industry 2016 ' (FMfl2016), held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, on November 2123, 2016. The theme for this unique and important event was Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors, and it brought together leading international mathematicians and active researchers from universities and industry to discuss current challenging topics and to promote interactive collaborations between mathematics and industry.?

The success of agricultural practice relies fundamentally on its interconnections with and dependence on biology and the environment. Both play essential roles, including the biological adaption to cope with environmental challenges of biotic and abiotic stress and global warming. The book highlights the development of mathematics within this framework that successful agricultural practice depends upon and exploits.

Decisions and Control in Digital Agriculture.-?The shape of things to come - using geometric and morphometric analyses to identify archaeological starch grains.-?In an increasingly digitally connected food and fibre world  what is the role of mathematical sciences and mathematicians?.-?New mathematical models of antimalarial drug action to improve drug dosing regimens.-?Biodiversity and the ecology of emerging infectious diseases.-?Reaction-Diffusion Equations and Cellular Automata.-?How to be Bayesian: using informative priors to improve decision-making.-?Robust estimation for high-dimensional graphical models.-?An overview of methods to identify and manage uncertainty for modelling problems in the water-agriculture-environment secto.-?Geometry of timelike minimal surfaces and null curves.-?Multiscale Modelling of Groundwater Flow.-?Accounting for modelling errors in parameter estimation l³"