An important objective of the study of mathematics is to analyze and visualize phenomena of nature and real world problems for its proper understanding. Gradually, it is also becoming the language of modem financial instruments. To project some of these developments, the conference was planned under the joint auspices of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied mathematics (ISlAM) and Guru Nanak Dev University (G. N. D. U. ), Amritsar, India. Dr. Pammy Manchanda, chairperson of Mathematics Department, G. N. D. U. , was appointed the organizing secretary and an organizing committee was constituted. The Conference was scheduled in World Mathematics Year 2000 but, due one reason or the other, it could be held during 22. -25. January 2001. How ever, keeping in view the suggestion of the International Mathematics union, we organized two symposia, Role of Mathematics in industrial development and vice-versa and How image of Mathematics can be improved in public. These two symposia aroused great interest among the participants and almost everyone participated in the deliberations. The discussion in these two themes could be summarized in the lengthy following lines: "Tradition of working in isolation is a barrier for interaction with the workers in the other fields of science and engineering, what to talk of non-academic areas, specially the private sector of finance and industry. Therefore, it is essential to build bridges within in stitutions and between institutions.

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A Perspective on Industrial Mathematics Work in Recent Years.- I Sampling Theorems.- The Sampling Theorem of Signal Processing.- The 'Riesz Basis Method' for Deriving Sampling Series: An Overview and some Applications.- Sampling and Quasi-Sampling in Rotation Invariant Paley-Wiener Spaces.- II Wawelets.- Wavelet Based Computer Simulation of some Meteorological Parameters.- A New Fast DCT based Digital Watermarking Technique.- III Mathematical Programming and Applications.- A Derivative-Free Algorithm for Sparse Unconstrained Optimization Problems.- Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Non-Convex Quadratic Programming.- Free Material Optimization: An Overview.- IV Numerical Methods and Control.- Numerical Methods for Schrödinger-Type Problems.- Low Cost Control Problems.- The Importance of Strange Attractors for Industrial Mathematics.- Sufficient Optimality in a Parabolic Control Problem.- Finite Element Approximations to an Evolutionary Variational Inequality with a Volterra Term.- On some Recent Developments concerning Moreau's Sweeping Process.