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Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving
Workshop (FMIPW)
August 11-15, 2008
Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
Organizers: Sean Bohun (UOIT), Huihui Dai (City
Univ. HK),
(Huaxiong Huang (York), Roderick Melnik (Wilfrid Laurier),
JF Williams (SFU)
Scientific Committee: Sean Bohun (UOIT), Chris Bose
(UVic),
Barbara Keyfitz (Fields), Huaxiong Huang (York),
Roderick Melnik (Wilfrid Laurier), Nilima Nigam (McGill)
Roderick Wong (City Univ. HK)
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History and mission statement
Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences:
Founded in 1992, the Fields Institute plays a central role in ``promoting
contact and collaboration between professional mathematicians and
the increasing number of users of mathematics". It supports
research in pure and applied mathematics and statistics. Thematic
programs of international interest, academic workshops, and prizes
are organized by the Institute.
Of specific interest to the business community is the Commercial
and Industrial Mathematics program. This program seeks to develop
synergistic links between mathematicians and industrial partners.
The Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop (FMIPW) is
a new initiative in this direction.
MITACS
MITACS leads Canada's effort in the generation, application and
commercialization of new mathematical tools and methodologies within
a world-class research program. The network initiates and fosters
linkages with industrial, governmental, and not-for-profit organizations
that require mathematical technologies to deal with problems of
strategic importance to Canada.
MITACS helps link academia, industry and the public sector, with
a view to developing cutting edge mathematical tools vital to a
knowledge-based economy. It sponsors research partnerships, industrial
interchanges, workshops, and training programs.
What the workshop is about:
Objectives:
The objective of the FMIPW is to connect industries with faculty,
postdocs and graduate students who have expertise in industrial
case-studies. This interaction is fostered in the specific context
of a problem-solving session over 5 days. The case-studies in
question have a significant mathematical or statistical content.
The interaction between industry and academia has many potential
benefits for both. Academics learn about interesting potential
research problems and find application for their existing tools.
Industries get access to some of the most experienced mathematical
modellers and problem-solvers on the continent.
Format:
The FMIPW will occur over 5 days. Participants will include between
36-50 academic experts (including mathematicians and statisticians),
and experts from industry. On the first day, the industrial sponsors
will present their problem statements. The academic experts will
divide into teams of 6-10 people each, with one team assigned
to each problem. The teams spend the next 3 days collaborating
on solutions to their problem, and present their solution on the
final day of the workshop.
Deliverables:
At the end of the week, the academic experts make a presentation
consisting of the problem restatement and their solution. This
is a summary of results; the teams also prepare reports for the
industrial sponsors.
What's in it for the participating company:
The intellectual dedication of many expert problem-solvers during
the workshop to the phenomenon of interest to the company yields
many benefits. These range from partial or complete solutions to
the problem of interest, to long-term collaboration between the
companies and the participating academics. The forum is an informal
but intensive opportunity for companies to take advantage of the
mathematical and scientific computing expertise of participating
researchers.
Often the academic reformulation and solution of the problem enables
the company to find inexpensive in-house strategies. Similar workshops
in Europe and North America have saved participating companies hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
In addition, the academic experts typically use state-of-the-art
scientific and technological tools, which may prove useful to the
company in other contexts as well.
The workshop also serves as a mechanism for recruitment of talented
graduate students; the company sponsors can watch this pool of potential
employees in action!
Why do academic experts participate?
The potential benefits of the FMIPW to professional mathematicians
involved are myriad. They range from an exposure to interesting
mathematical problems arising outside the confines of academia to
an opportunity to try new scientific tools in novel application
areas. Previous workshops have seen such involvement turn into long-term
collaborations, often leading to journal publications and new research
directions.
Commitment of FMIPW:
The Fields Institute and MITACS will provide the academic expertise
and infrastructure for this workshop. The recruitment of appropriate
faculty and graduate students to best meet the needs of the problems
will be done by the Fields Institute.
Commitment of industrial sponsors:
Each participating company contributes a problem with mathematical
or statistical content for discussion during the workshop. They
also commit a representative to participate in the workshop during
the problem-solving phase. The company may sponsor part of the FMIPW
through a one-time or ongoing financial contribution.
Other
Western Canada Study Groups http://www.pims.math.ca/ipsw/ipsw_previous.html
UK Math-in-Medicine Study Groups http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/ociam/Study-Groups/
and
Mathematical Problems in Industry http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Math/News/MPI2003/MPIsite/
This year's UK Study Groups in Bath: http://www.bath.ac.uk/math-sci/bics/conferences/esgi.html
Participant List
| Fullname |
University Name |
| Altalli, Rajaa |
Northeastern University |
| An, James |
Mapleridge Capital Corporation |
| Anderssen, Bob |
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences |
| Arino, Julien |
University of Manitoba |
| Barford, Tom |
Mapleridge Capital Corporation |
| Bautista, Maurino |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Bocar Amadou, Wane |
Laval University |
| Bohun, C. Sean |
UOIT |
| Breward, Chris |
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford |
| Butt, Nabeel |
University of Western Ontario |
| Cai, Zongxi |
City University of Hong Kong |
| Caponnetto, Andrea |
City University of Hong Kong |
| Cara, Mirela |
York University |
| Caudillo-Mata, Luz Angélica |
Center for the Mathematical Research (CIMAT) |
| Chadam, John |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Cisneros, Myriam |
Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo |
| Cottrell, David |
McGill University |
| Dai, Hui-Hui |
City University of Hong Kong |
| De la Rosa, David |
Centre of Mathematics Research CIMAT |
| Diaz Bobadilla, Irma |
University of Regina |
| Findlay, Justin |
University of Ontario Institute of Technology |
| Flint, Ortho |
University of Western Ontario |
| Fritze, Peter |
Mapleridge Capital Corporation |
| Gao, Yunchuan |
Mapleridge Capital Corporation |
| Garcia Dominguez, Luis |
Hospital for Sick Kids |
| Gordon, Brian |
Mitacs |
| Heffernan, Jane |
York University |
| Hennessy, Matt |
UOIT |
| Hjorth, Poul G. |
Technical University of Denmark |
| Howell, Peter |
University of Oxford |
| Huang, Haohan |
York University |
| Huang, Huaxiong |
York University |
| Jiang, Xiamei |
University of Toronto at Scarborough |
| Kan, Kin Hung |
University of Western Ontario |
| Kane, Abdoulaye |
Laval University |
| Kavazovic, Zanin |
Université Laval |
| Keyfitz, Barbara |
University of Houston and Fields Institute |
| Khaykin, Roman |
York University |
| Kilgour, D. Marc |
Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Kitanov, Petko |
University of Guelph |
| Krywiak, Claudia |
MITACS |
| Labibi, Batool |
K. N. Toosi University of Technology |
| Ladipo, Kehinde |
Fields Institute |
| Lewis, Gregory |
University of Ontario Institute of Technology |
| Li, Jiawei |
York University |
| Madras, Neal |
York University |
| Marcotte, Odile |
CRM, Université de Montréal |
| McGuinness, Mark |
Victoria University |
| Melnik, Roderick |
Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Miura, Robert M |
New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights |
| Moghadas, Seyed |
National Research Council Canada |
| Moore, Richard |
New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Morfin Ramírez, Mario |
University of Toronto |
| Ockendon, John |
OCIAM Mathematical Institute |
| Orser, Brenda |
B.I.O. Letha Information Systems Inc. |
| Ortan, Alexandra |
McGill University |
| Pass, Brendan |
University of Toronto |
| Phillips, Joel |
McGill University |
| Pitcher, Ashley |
University of Oxford |
| Pourziaei, Bobby |
York University |
| Privault, Nicolas |
City University of Hong Kong |
| Qazi, Sanjive |
Gustavus Adolphus College |
| Qiao, Yun |
York University |
| Quenneville-Bélair, Vincent |
McGill University |
| Ross, David |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Sabbagh, Mohammad S. |
Isfahan University of Tech. |
| Salisbury, Thomas |
York University |
| Schilders, Wil |
NXP Semiconductors Research |
| Selkirk, Randall |
Mapleridge Capital Corporation |
| Shontz, Suzanne |
Pennsylvania State University |
| Sivaloganathan, Sivabal |
University of Waterloo |
| Sørensen, Mads Peter |
Technical University of Denmark |
| Sun, Wei Wei |
City University of Hong Kong |
| Tan, Yongji |
Fudan University |
| Tilley, Burt S. |
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering |
| Tsui, Lung Kwan |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Vaidya, Naveen |
York University |
| Walker, Homer |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Warlow, Scott |
Manulife Financial |
| Wylie, Jonathan |
City University of Hong Kong |
| Zhang, Guoqing |
University of Windsor |
| Zhu, Bruce |
Mapleridge Capital Corporation |
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