A Knowledge Transfer Workshop on Industrial Inverse Problems was held on 19-20 March 2007 at the University of Leeds.

The purpose of the meeting was for industrialists and academics to identify inverse problems of common interest.

The Workshop followed the format of presentations from industry to introduce the problems on the first day, followed by intensive work on the problems by groups during the next day. The workshop was facilitated by the Industrial Mathematics Knowledge Transfer Network.

As an outcome of this activity it was planned that a rapport between academics and industrialists would be established and cemented through possible grant proposals for future collaborations. The Workshop Minutes can be found at the link below.

Academic participation was open to all members of the inverse problems community or related subjects, including postgraduate students, for whom such activity provides an excellent training in oriented research. No fees were charged for participating at the workshop.

The programme included the following industrial talks :

• Andrew Fellerman (Nexia Solutions Limited) - "Modelling challenges facing the nuclear industry"
• Brian Cattle (Nexia Solutions Limited) - "Tomographic techniques in the nuclear industry"
• David Gelder (Pilkington Glass) - "Parameter estimation in reaction diffusion problems involving ionic species with limited data"
• Chris Farmer (Schlumberger) - "Random fields as priors for inverse problems"
• Manuchehr Soleimani (William Lee Innovation Centre) - "State of the art EIT/ECT/MIT imaging algorithms, future directions and challenges"

Abstracts of the talks may be found at the link below.

For further information on the follow-on from the workshop, academics and industrialists are invited to contact:

Dr. Daniel Lesnic
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
Email: amt5ld@maths.leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44-(0)113-3435181
Fax: +44-(0)113-3435090