A short course dedicated to 'Mathematical Modelling for Sustainable Management of Crop Health' is being held in Italy in January and is open to PhD students, post-doctorates and researchers who want to better understand the use of models for plant protection, either because they will be interacting with models or modellers, or because they intend to develop models themselves.
The course is an initiative of the INRA meta-programme Sustainable Management of Crop Health (SmaCH), in collaboration with ENDURE, PURE, the INRA/CIRAD Integrated Pest Management network and the INRA/ACTA Mixed Technological Network on Modelling.
The organisers note: “Sustainable management of crop health requires [us] to explicitly consider much of the complexity of agroecosystems. We must deal with crop production as affected by management, and with interactions between pests and crops, between different pest populations and between pests and beneficials, at various spatial and temporal scales.
“Modelling is a key tool for representing the complexity of dynamic biological systems, and for testing various management strategies. Mathematical models can i) help understand how the underlying processes interact leading to pest regulation services and disservices (i.e. crop losses) and ii) help design sustainable crop health management strategies.”
The course's objectives are:
The course runs from January 13 to17, 2014, and is being held at the International School of Advanced Education located in Volterra, Italy, which has also hosted the ENDURE summer schools, and the deadline for registrations is November 1, 2013.
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