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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Agricultural Systems - Call for Agricultural World to Applied Mathematician -
Student-Run Research Seminar| Speaker: | Dr. Kenshi Sakai, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Mon, Nov 5 2001, 10:00AM |
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.