Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2008

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. Plenary Lectures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Modelling Living Tissues: Mechanical and Mechanobiological Aspects

      • M. Doblaré, J. M. García-Aznar

      Pages 3-8

   3. New Mathematical Approaches for Image Reconstruction in the Oil and Medical Industries

      • M. Moscoso

      Pages 9-21

   4. Continuum Models: Helping to Guide Industry

      • Colin Please

      Pages 23-41

   5. Wax Segregation in Oils: A Multiscale Problem

      • Mario Primicerio

      Pages 43-67

   6. Chebfun: A New Kind of Numerical Computing

      • R. B. Platte, L. N. Trefethen

      Pages 69-87

3. Minisymposia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Minisymposium Asymptotic Analysis

      • D. Dominici, R. B. Paris

      Pages 91-92

   3. Asymptotics of Orthogonal-Polynomial Functionals and Shannon Information Entropy of Rydberg Atoms

      • J. S. Dehesa, S. López-Rosa, A. Martínez-Finkelshtein, R. J. Yáñez

      Pages 93-98

   4. Asymptotic Analysis of the Zeros of Hermite Polynomials

      • Diego Dominici

      Pages 99-103

   5. The Error Function in the Study of Singularly Perturbed Convection-Diffusion Problems with Discontinuous Boundary Data

      • J. J. López, E. Pérez Sinusía, N. M. Temme

      Pages 105-110

   6. Singular Perturbations of Parabolic Equations With or Without Boundary Layers

      • Denis R. Akhmetov, Mikhail M. Lavrentiev Jr., Renato Spigler

      Pages 111-116

   7. The Asymptotic Inversion of Certain Cumulative Distribution Functions

      • Amparo Gil, Javier Segura, Nico Temme

      Pages 117-122

   8. Minisymposium Asymptotic Properties of Complex Random Systems and Applications

      • Malwina J. Luczak

      Pages 123-124

   9. A Multi-Class Mean-Field Model with Graph Structure for TCP Flows

      • C. Graham, Ph. Robert

      Pages 125-131

   10. Minisymposium Charge and Spin Transport in Nanostructures

       • L. L. Bonilla, M. Carretero

       Pages 133-134

   11. The Equilibrium Wigner Function in the Case of Nonparabolic Energy Bands

       • V. Romano

       Pages 135-140

   12. Nonlinear Electron and Spin Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices

       • L. L. Bonilla, L. Barletti, M. Alvaro

       Pages 141-146

   13. Self-Sustained Spin-Polarized Current Oscillations in Multiquantum Well Structures

       • M. Carretero, L. L. Bonilla, R. Escobedo, G. Platero

       Pages 147-152

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.

• Rang
• applied mathematics
• industrial mathematics
• mathematics
• networks
• partial differential equations

• School of Mathematics, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  Alistair D. Fitt

• Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  John Norbury

• Mathematical Institute, Ctr for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Hilary Ockendon

• Dept. Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

  Eddie Wilson

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