Transdisziplinäre Konzepte und Methoden - Forschungsbereich IV

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Mission 

The research domain "Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods – TCM"  develops climate impact research in those areas where concepts and methods are found wanting. It does so guided by stakeholder dialogues and using mathematics as a tool to meet conceptual challenges.

Background

Climate impact research operates at the limits of the scientific enterprise as we know it. We contribute to this enterprise with a research strategy based on the notion of domains of discourse. Bridges between heterogeneous domains must be built on a case-by-case basis because the idea of an all-encompassing domain would be logically incoherent. To build such bridges we use mathematics as a platform for developing appropriate concepts in transdisciplinary co-operation. Since the origins of both philosophy and deductive mathematics in Ancient Greece, these two traditions have patiently worked towards an understanding of the role of concepts in the fabric of what we call reality. We are aware of the broad questions involved, but we deliberately focus on the following three research areas.

A) Case Studies

• TCM Case Study: Low-Emissions Cities (Speaker: F. Reusswig)

• TCM Case Study: The SuperSmartGrid (Speaker: A. Battaglini)

B) Methods

• Complex networks and synchronization (Speaker: J. Kurths and Y. Zou)

• Time Series Analysis (Speaker: N. Marwan)

• Integrated Risk Governance (Speaker: A. Haas)

• Model specification and program development (Speaker: N. Botta)

• Computational Methods for Quality & Utilization of Models & Data (Speaker: M. Flechsig)

C) Concepts

• A Model of the German Economy (Speaker: C. Jaeger)