Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2008

The 15th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry was held in the agreeable surroundings of University College London, just 5 minutes walk from the British Museum in the heart of London, over the ?ve warm, sunny days from 30 June to 4 July 2008. Participants from all over the world met with the commonaimofreinforcingthe roleofmathematics asanoverarching resource for industry and business. The conference attracted over 300 participants from 30 countries, most of them participating with either a contributed talk, a minisymposium pres- tation or a plenary lecture. 'Mathematics in Industry' was interpreted in its widest sense as can be seen from the range of applications and techniques described in this volume. We mention just two examples. The Alan Tayler Lecture was given by Mario Primicerio on a problem arising from moving oil through pipelines when temperature variations a?ect the shearing properties of wax and thus modify the ?ow. The Wacker Prize winner, Master's student Lauri Harhanen from the Helsinki University of Technology, showed how a novel piece of mathematics allowed new software to capture real-time images of teeth from the data supplied by present day dental machinery (see ECMI Newsletter 44). The meeting was attended by leading ?gures from government, bu- ness and science who all shared the same aim to promote the application of innovative mathematics to industry, and identify industrial sectors that o?er the most exciting opportunities for mathematicians to provide new insight and new ideas.

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Most important conference proceedings in industrial mathematics, held biannually

Main industrial math conference, see www.ecmi2008.org

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This volume is the Proceedings of the European Conference on Mathematics for Industry held in London in June 2008. The aim of the meeting was to reinforce the role of mathematics as an overarching resource for industry and business. Contributions cover a wide range of mathematical techniques and the applications include manufacturing and technology, finance and policy-making, networks, medicine, and sport.

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Plenary Lectures.- Modelling Living Tissues: Mechanical and Mechanobiological Aspects.- New Mathematical Approaches for Image Reconstruction in the Oil and Medical Industries.- Continuum Models: Helping to Guide Industry.- Wax Segregation in Oils: A Multiscale Problem.- Chebfun: A New Kind of Numerical Computing.- Minisymposia.- Minisymposium Asymptotic Analysis.- Asymptotics of Orthogonal-Polynomial Functionals and Shannon Information Entropy of Rydberg Atoms.- Asymptotic Analysis of the Zeros of Hermite Polynomials.- The Error Function in the Study of Singularly Perturbed Convection-Diffusion Problems with Discontinuous Boundary Data.- Singular Perturbations of Parabolic Equations With or Without Boundary Layers.- The Asymptotic Inversion of Certain Cumulative Distribution Functions.- Minisymposium Asymptotic Properties of Complex Random Systems and Applications.- A Multi-Class Mean-Field Model with Graph Structure for TCP Flows.- Minisymposium Charge and Spin Transport in Nanostructures.- The Equilibrium Wigner Function in the Case of Nonparabolic Energy Bands.- Nonlinear Electron and Spin Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices.- Self-Sustained Spin-Polarized Current Oscillations in Multiquantum Well Structures.- Spin Dynamics in Quantum Dots.- Relocation Dynamics During Voltage Switching in Spin-Polarized Superlattices.- Minisymposium Dynamical Systems Methods in Aerospace Engineering.- A Combined Numerical/Experimental Continuation Approach Applied to Nonlinear Rotor Dynamics.- Operational Parameter Study of an Aircraft Turning on the Ground.- Geometric Nonlinearities of Aircraft Systems.- Application of Nonlinear Dynamics in Civil Aerospace.- Minisymposium Global System Dynamics and Policies.- Systems Approaches for Critical Decisions.- Application of System Dynamics to Climate Policy Assessment.- Minisymposium Multivariate and/or Multidimensional Image Processing in Biomedical Applications.- Regionalized Random Germs by a Classification for Probabilistic Watershed Application: Angiogenesis Imaging Segmentation.- Nucleus Modelling and Segmentation in Cell Clusters.- Spatio-Temporal Segmentation for Radiotherapy Planning.- Tracking and Registration for Multidimensional Biomedical Image Analysis.- Patches of Finite Elements for Singularly-Perturbed Diffusion Reaction Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients.- Upgrading the UK Broadband Infrastructure by Monte Carlo Simulation.- Multi-Stepping and Anti-Icing / De-Icing Devices.- A Diffusion Model for Spatially Dependent Photopolymerization.- Minisymposium Interfacial Processes in Industrial and Environmental Turbulent Flows.- Wakes of Maneuvering Body in Stratified Fluids.- Eddy Dynamics Near Sharp Interfaces and in Straining Flows.- Evolution and Run-Up of Tsunamis.- Interfacial Mixing by Horizontal Vortices and Shear Turbulence.- Minisymposium Inverse Problems and Signal Processing in Industrial Applications.- Sparse Deconvolution for Peak Picking and Ion Charge Estimation in Mass Spectrometry.- Mathematical Imbalance Determination from Vibrational Measurements and Industrial Applications.- An Update of Hopkins' Analysis of the Optical Disc Player Using Singular-System Theory.- The Application of Wavelet Analysis for the Detection of Planetary Wave Type Oscillations in the Ionospheric Total Electron Content.- Statistical Significance of Gabor Frames Expansions: Simple Filtering Principles for Radar Wind Profiler Data.- Minisymposium Multirate Time Integration for Multiscaled Systems.- Domain Decomposition Based Multirating and its Perspective in Circuit Simulation.- Multirate Numerical Integration for Stiff ODEs.- Terminal Current Interpolation for Multirate Time Integration of Hierarchical IC Models.- On Extrapolated Multirate Methods.- Is Geometry or Dynamics More Important in Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis?.- A Bidomain Numerical Validation for Assessing Times of Fast and Ending Repolarization from Monophasic Action Potentials.- Framework for Modular, Flexible and Efficient Solving the Cardiac Bidomain Equations Using PETSc.- On Efficiency and Accuracy in Cardioelectric Simulation.- Computational and Numerical Methods for the Efficient and Accurate Solution of the Bidomain Equations.- Minisymposium Operational Applications of Data Assimilation.- Data Fusion in the Navigation of Robots: Assessing Tools.- The Role of Balance in Data Assimilation.- Data Assimilation in Nuclear Power Plant Core.- An Iterative Method for Transport Equations in Radiotherapy.- Boundary Control of Radiative Transfer Equations for Application in Radiotherapy Planning.- Model Hierarchies and Optimal Control of Radiative Transfer.- Minisymposium Optimization and Model Order Reduction in Circuit Design.- A Netlist Reduction Algorithm to Symbolic Circuit Analysis.- of Symbolic Simplified Expressions in Circuit Optimization.- Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Model Order Reduction of Nonlinear IC Models.- Surrogate Modeling of RF Circuit Blocks.- Minisymposium Precipitation, Deposition and Sedimentation of Particles in Fluid Flow.- Structure of Granular Deposits Formed by Aerosol Particles Conveyed by Fluid Streams.- Creation of Clusters via a Thermal Quench.- Theory of Surface Deposition from Boundary Layers Containing Condensable Vapor and Particles.- Comparing League Formats with Respect to Match (Un)importance: A Case Study in Belgian Soccer.- Modelling Batting Strategy in Test Cricket.- Minisymposium Interactions between Structure and Process in Manufacturing Systems.- Modelling, Analysis and Stability of Milling Processes Including Workpiece Effects.- Adaptive Finite Element Discretisation of the Spindle Grinding Wheel System.- Optimal Control of Robot Guided Laser Material Treatment.- Minisymposium Mathematical Mode…