The department of mathematics, in cooperation with Ibn Sina unit for e-learning and the continuing education unit at the college of science held a virtual lecture entitled “Environmental pollution as one of the causes of migration and its impact on wealth index construction: a mathematical model of nonlinear differential equations” delivered by Assist. Prof. Dr. Hassan Fadhil Ridha and Assist. Prof. Dr. Murtadha Abdul Kazim with the participation of a number of professors, students and those concerned with environmental, agricultural and mathematical affairs.
The lecturers discussed the use of mathematics nowadays under the spread of epidemic diseases and its relationship to environmental pollution, with reference to the causes of human migration across the world via the use of the mathematical modeling of wealth index for measuring household’s cumulative living standard. Then they shed light on a number of infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases which emerge from time to time and have resonance worldwide, namely (bird flu or avian flu) by studying the phenomenon of the spread of infectious diseases among people, with its repercussions on migration trends and how to detect and control different phases of influenza to fight infection.