Organizers
The conference is organized by in cooperation with- the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), and
- the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF).
International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG)↑
The International
Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) is a professional
multidisciplinary nonprofit society with over 600 members in more than 40
countries. The mission of the IAMG is to promote worldwide the
advancement of applications of mathematics, statistics and informatics in the
geosciences. The IAMG owns or sponsors three reference international
journals
- Mathematical Geosciences (formerly Mathematical Geology)
- Computers and Geosciences
- Natural Resources Research
TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF)↑
The Technical
University Bergakademie (meaning mining academy) Freiberg (TUBAF),
the resource university since 1765, is the oldest mining university of the
world. It was founded in 1765 and serendipitously celebrates its 250th anniversary in the
year of the conference. Today it has faculties for mathematics and
informatics, for natural sciences, geosciences, engineering, material
sciences and economics. Since 2007 there is an active IAMG student chapter, and one of the few universities in the world
with a professorship for Mathematical Geology and Geoinformatics. The TU Bergakademie Freiberg is the physical host of the conference.
Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF)↑
The Helmholtz Institute
Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) is an Institute of
the Helmholtz Center Dresden Rossendorf
e.V. (HZDR), founded by the German Federal Government in 2012 as a
joint venture of the TUBAF and the HZDR. HIF is a national Research
center for mineral resources. The HZDR is a member of the Helmholtz
Society, an 100% publicly-funded association of reference research
centers in Germany.