EUROPEAN STUDY GROUP
with
INDUSTRY
A Study Group is a forum where academic mathematicians work on problems
directly related to industry. Workshops of this nature have
taken place in Great Britain for a number of years, going back to
1963 when Prof. Alan Tayler started the Oxford Study
Group with Industry. The coordination of Study Groups is now
in the hands of European Consortium for Mathematics in
Industry (ECMI), and the name is currently European Study
Group with Industry (ESGI). At a meeting in 1997 of the ECMI Council
it was decided that Study Groups should also be held outside
Great Britain, and the first one of those was ESGI32 in Lyngby, Denmark.
The format of a Study Group is a week long meeting (Monday - Friday)
where a number of companies on the first day of the meeting each
present a research problem they believe to be of a mathematical nature.
Each such problem is taken up by a group of mathematicians who,
together with the company representative, work towards the solution of
the problem, through Thursday afternoon. Friday is used to present
in a plenary session the results from each of the problem groups.
At the latest two months after the meeting, a final report on the
results of all the groups is sent out to all participants.
The reasons for the continuing success of the Study Groups are simple:
The industrial participants get, for a very modest sum, a highly
qualified `think tank' of mathematicians to focus on their particular
research problem. Besides a full or partial resolution of the problem,
the companies establish useful contacts with international researchers.
The academics benefit from new ideas and challenges from the real
world, providing inspiration for both education and their own
research.
The success criterion for a Study Group is that participating
companies experience the meeting as useful and that it brings them
a significant step closer to the resolution of their problem. For
the Danish study groups we also have the goal that it will establish
closer ties between Danish Industry and Danish mathematicians.
Links to previous and upcoming European Study Groups with Industry:
Where it all started. The OCIAM study group page.
66th European Study Group with Industry,
18 August - 22 August, 2008, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
61st European Study Group with Industry,
13 August - 17 August, 2007, Sønderborg, Denmark.
57th European Study Group with Industry,
14 August - 18 August, 2006, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
54th European Study Group with Industry,
15 August - 19 August, 2005, Odense, Denmark.
51st European Study Group with Industry,
16 August - 20 August, 2004, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
50th European Study Group with Industry,
24 May - 28 May, 2004, Helsinki, Finland.
49th
European Study Group with Industry, 29 March - 2 April, 2004, Oxford,
England.
48th Study Group in Mathematics with Industry,
Delft, The Netherlands, 15-19 March 2004
47th European Study Group with Industry,
24 August - 29 August, 2003, Sønderborg, Denmark.
46th European Study Group
with Industry, Bristol 31st March - 4th April, 2003.
45th European Study Group with Industry, Leiden 17-21 February, 2003.
44th European Study Group with Industry, Lyngby 19-23 August, 2002.
43rd European Study
Group with Industry, Lancaster 2nd - 5th April 2002
42nd European Study
Group with Industry, Amsterdam 18th - 22nd February 2002
41st European Study Group with Industry, Odense 13th - 17th August 2001
40th European Study
Group With Industry (ESGI 2001), Keele 9-12 April 2001
39th European Study Group with Industry, Twente 9-13 October, 2000.
38th European Study Group with Industry, Lyngby 19-23 June, 2000.
37th European Study Group with Industry (ESGI 2000), Sheffield 10-14 April, 2000
36th European Study Group with Industry, Eindhoven 15th - 19th November, 1999.
35th European Study Group with Industry, Odense 23rd - 27th August 1999
34th European Study Group with Industry, Edinburgh 6th - 9th April 1999
33rd European Study Group with Industry, Leiden 14th - 18th Septemper
32nd European Study Group with Industry, Lyngby 31 August - 4 Septemper 1998
The Final Report of ESGI32
From the annual report of DTU
and in
Danish
31st European
Study Group with Industry, Southampton 22-27 March 1998
The Industrial Problems at ESGI98
30th European Study
Group with Industry, Bath 7-11 April, 1997
The Procedings of ESGI97
Some overseas Study Groups:
The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry
MACSI-net: MAthematics, Computing and Simulation for Industry