2016年学术报告之三十四

报告题目：What has the Antarctic ozone hole to do with biological evolution?

主讲人：Prof.Michael Edgeworth McIntyre 

主持人：吕建华教授

时间：2016年9月27日上午8：30

地点：珠海校区教学楼B313

主讲人简介：

剑桥大学应用数学和理论物理系教授，英国皇家学会会员，欧洲科学院院士，美国地球物理联合会会士，Rossby奖获得者。

Professor Emeritus, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,

Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.), UK

Elected Member of Academia Europaea,

Fellow of American Geophysical Union and Fellow of American Meteorological Society

报告摘要：

The ozone hole in the Antarctic stratosphere is mainly due to man-made chemicals from the opposite hemisphere, the industrial north. It was the first global-scale environmental phenomenon to be understood well enough to bring about a new symbiosis between international regulation and market forces. Understanding the ozone hole was a notable scientific achievement because of its immense complexity. There are strong interactions between disparate timescales, from thousand-million-millionths of a second out to many decades or more. Mathematical modelling of such multi-timescale interactions is familiar in physics and chemistry but has often been neglected in research on biological evolution -- in particular, in the old population-genetics models that led to selfish-gene theory. Those models miss many crucial aspects of human evolution.