Invitation to Climate System Science

Editorial: Climate Science: An Invitation for Physicists.

Climate science is rooted in physics and in many of the methods used by physicists. Although it’s a cliché to say that the practice of science changed dramatically with the advent of the digital age, computers have had an enormous impact on the growth and evolution of climate science. Before computing, progress in explaining observations or making predictions in the physical sciences, including...

An Invitation to Cognitive Science

Settling Multiple Debts Efficiently: An Invitation to Computing Science

I present and solve several problems related to the settling of multiple debts. The solutions are documented in much detail, with (bright) high-school students in mind. One of the variants has a simple solution, though it is not so easy to code concisely. Another variant is an elegant NP-hard problem. The problem leads into important areas of mathematics and computing science, making it suitabl...

Science of adaptation to climate change and science for adaptation

*Correspondence: Rob Swart, Climate Change and Adaptive Land and Water Management Team, Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, Building 100, 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] Adaptation to climate change has gained a prominent place next to mitigation on global, national, and local policy agendas. However, while an abundance of adaptati...

Invitation to operadic dynamics

Based on the Gerstenhaber Theory it is clarified how operadic dynamics may be introduced. Operadic observables satisfy the Gerstenhaber algebra identities and their time evolution is governed by the Gerstenhaber-Lax or Gerstenhaber-Heisenberg equation. In this way one can describe classical and quantum time evolution of operations. The notion of an operadic Lax pair is introduced as well.