A Knowledge Transfer Workshop on Industrial Inverse Problems was held on 23-24 March 2009 at the University of Leeds.

The purpose of the workshop was for industrialists and academics to identify inverse problems of common interest. Inverse Problems seek to identify causes from given effects and as such they are at the heart of many physical phenomena and any advance into the subject should be encouraged.

The workshop commenced on Monday 23 March around 11.00 and finished on Tuesday 24 March at 12.30. It comprised presentations from industry to introduce the problems on the first day, followed by intensive work on the problems by groups (academic and industrial) during the second day.

The programme included the following talks:

• Malcom Byars (Process Tomography Ltd.) and Andrew Hunt (Tomoflow Ltd.) - "How to calculate accurate concentration profiles in two-phase flows using electrical capacitance tomography (ECT)"
• David Daniels (ERA Technology UK) - "Landmine detection using ultra wideband (UWB) radar - signal recovery in a lossy, inhomogeneous and high clutter environment"
• Kees- Van Malssen (Unilever, The Netherlands) - "Inverse problems in industry: Stochastical and analytical correlation between consumer and production"

The workshop was very successful in identifying new scientific approaches to the problems during the group sessions, and in the plenary summary session candidate mechanisms were identified for further collaborative activity, including Industrial CASE, Industrial Maths Internships and a workshop with industry.

Academic participation was open to all members of the inverse problems community or related subjects, including postgraduate students, for whom the proposed activity provided an excellent training in oriented research.

The workshop was supported by the Industrial Mathematics Knowledge Transfer Network, and by a University of Leeds Knowledge Transfer grant. No fees were charged for participating in the workshop.

Organisation of the workshop was led by Dr Daniel Lesnic, from whom further details may be obtained:

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