2009/04/21
April 2009 News Bulletin

Welcome to the April 2009 issue of the bulletin of the Knowledge Transfer Network for Industrial Mathematics, providing information for industrial and academic collaborators on recent results, milestones and opportunities.


AT A GLANCE

Internships Expressions of Interest: seeking a partner for an Industrial Mathematics Internship
Study Group with Industry 2009: first study group to use social networks
Joint KTN workshop: Sensors for telecare and telehealth
New SBRI Competitions
Research Council Knowledge Transfer Activities
LANCS initiative PhD Studentships/Scholarships
Workshop summary: Inverse Problems 2009
Workshop summary: Data assimilation for industrial inverse problems
Reducing the Burden on the Dismounted Soldier - CDE seminar, Harwell, 23 April 2009
Women in Mathematics Day 2009, London, 24 April 2009
10th IMA Younger Mathematicians Conference, Oxford, 16 May 2009
70th European Study Group with Industry, Limerick, 28 June - 3 July
EU news selected from CORDIS: April 2009
Interwise, News feeds and Noticeboard: available on the Industrial Mathematics KTN website







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Internships Expressions of Interest: seeking a partner for an Industrial Mathematics Internship
Internship projects currently seeking a partner are in the areas of:
  • Modelling of fluid flow networks - from ABB Engineering Services
  • Aspects of reaction-diffusion mechanisms of relevance to decontamination - from DSTL
  • Optimising management of objects for a content management service - from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
If you are interested in partnering one of these projects, please contact Dr Vera Hazelwood. We are inviting suggestions for other projects to commence from now until June 2009.
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Study Group with Industry 2009: first study group to use social networks
The 68th European Study Group with Industry was held at the University of Southampton from 30th March to 3rd April 2009, supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the KTN for Industrial Mathematics. New to the Study Group this year was the use of social networks to support industrial mathematics. The ESGI68 social network was designed to allow contributions on each of the problems tackled in Southampton. The site contains problem descriptions, discussion areas and the presentations made on the final day of the Study Group.
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Joint KTN workshop: Sensors for telecare and telehealth
The Assisted Living Innovation Platform is a five year programme of activity to address the issue of the aging population and the resulting burden of this demographic upon health care providers. A joint KTN workshop on sensors for telecare and telehealth will be held in Cambridge on 12 May 2009.
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New SBRI Competitions
A number of new Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competitions have been launched by the Technology Strategy Board.
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Research Council Knowledge Transfer Activities
The Research Councils UK have recently launched two initiatives.
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LANCS initiative PhD Studentships/Scholarships
A total of 35 funded PhD positions will be available from 2009-2013 in four UK universities: LAncaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton (LANCS).
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Workshop summary: Inverse Problems 2009
A Knowledge Transfer Workshop on Industrial Inverse Problems was held on 23-24 March 2009 at the University of Leeds. The programme included talks on the following topics: How to calculate accurate concentration profiles in two-phase flows using electrical capacitance tomography (ECT); Landmine detection using ultra wideband (UWB) radar - signal recovery in a lossy, inhomogeneous and high clutter environment; and Inverse problems in industry: Stochastical and analytical correlation between consumer and production.
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Workshop summary: Data assimilation for industrial inverse problems
A science and technology workshop on data assimilation for industrial inverse problems was held in January 2009. The aim of the workshop was to explore the potential for wider and improved use of data assimilation in industrial applications. Data assimilation is well developed in some applications, notably tracking, weather prediction and oil reservoir simulation history matching. This workshop presented the state of the art in data assimilation and identified further opportunities for its application to the solution of industrial inverse problems.
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Reducing the Burden on the Dismounted Soldier - CDE seminar, Harwell, 23 April 2009
The Centre of Defence Enterprise (CDE) is hosting 2 seminars on “Personal Robotics Support Vehicle" from 09:30 and “Lightweight Soldier Weapon System” from 13:30 on 23rd April 2009 at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.
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Women in Mathematics Day 2009, London, 24 April 2009
The next Women in Mathematics Day will be held on Friday 24 April at the London Mathematical Society’s De Morgan House. Sessions will include talks and posters by practising women mathematicians in a variety of appointments and at different career stages.
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10th IMA Younger Mathematicians Conference, Oxford, 16 May 2009
The next Younger Members Conference of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications will be held on Saturday 16 May 2009 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
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70th European Study Group with Industry, Limerick, 28 June - 3 July
Following the success of ESGI62, the first ever study group held in Ireland, the Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry, based at the University of Limerick, is pleased to host the 70th European Study Group with Industry this summer.
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EU news selected from CORDIS: April 2009
Community Research and Development Information Services (CORDIS) news feeds selected for the Industrial Mathematics KTN: application layer networks, statistics theory for London murders, random network connectivity, household energy savings, reduced bus journey times, self-motion perception in the elderly and wind farm sensors.
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Interwise, News feeds and Noticeboard: available on the Industrial Mathematics KTN website
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