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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Agricultural Systems - Call for Agricultural World to Applied Mathematician -
Student-Run Research| Speaker: | Dr. Kenshi Sakai, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Mon, Nov 5 2001, 10:00AM |
Description
Agriculture is very complex and agricultural study must be
interdisciplinary. Because of the lack of common methodology over the fields
of agricultural science and technology, we have not had effective
cooperation among research fields relating agriculture to deal with
agricultural complexity. In my point of view, chaos theory, nonlinear
dynamics and nonlinear time series analysis can be candidates of common
methodology for agricultural science.
In this seminar, I would like to show some attempts for applying chaos
theory onto agriculture, such as spatio-temporal dynamics in competing
multiple plant species, alternate bearing of citrus production, pricing data
analysis of agricultural production, etc. They are selected from my newly
written book of the same title as this seminar.
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/inca/621977
Agricultural engineers and scientists really wish complex and nonlinear
mathematicians to join our really complex and nonlinear world in
agriculture.