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The international GeoMATES ’22 conference co-organized by CSFK at the end of May also covered climate change and space research

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Co-organized by the Geomathematics and Informatics Section of the Hungarian Geological Society (MFT) and the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research of the ELKH Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK), the international GeoMATES 2022 conference was successfully held between May 19-21, 2022, at the Pécs Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The event, which followed the values of the long-established Geomathematics Workshops, covered the usual focus topics – reservoir geology,  processing of environmental monitoring data, geomathematical applications in engineering geology – as well as new scientific areas, including climate change and extreme conditions, space exploration and remote sensing.

The conference was preceded by two hybrid courses and one attendance course, in which Dr Manfred Mudelsee (AWI, Climate Risk Analysis Ltd), primary author of several Science articles and one Nature article, addressed the trend analysis of time series, Prof Péter Szabó Norbert (University of Miskolc) spoke about the application of multivariate data analysis methods to environmental data, and Dr János Geiger (Geochem Kft.) discussed the issue of uncertainty in earth science data.

The conference was opened by Dr Ferenc Fedor, President of the Geomathematics and Informatics Section of MFT. Participants then listened to plenary presentations by Prof Stephen Mojzsis from CSFK and the University of Colorado, and Qinghua Ding from the University of California Santa Barbara, followed by poster presentations. On the second day, eight sessions were organized in parallel, each of them opened by a keynote speaker, and the program was closed by D. István Gábor Hatvani, Secretary of the Geomathematics and Informatics Section of MFT.

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Prof. Stephen Mojzsis
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GeoMATES ’22

The abstracts of the lectures have been published in a book edited by the management of the Geomathematics and Informatics Section of MFT, and published by the Academic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs. Two peer-reviewed issues of the papers presented at the conference are scheduled to be published in prestigious international journals.

Financial support for the program was provided by the Mecenatúra grant of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office and the Applied Geology Cluster.