In the summer of 2008, the Biennial Conference of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) comes to the UK for the first time in 20 years.

With over 80 institutional members, ECMI is Europe's leading association of organisations committed to the application of mathematics in industry. Its 15th Biennial Conference will be hosted by University College London between 30 June and 4 July 2008. The KTN for Industrial Mathematics is proud to be one of the conference's main sponsors.

ECMI 2008 will reinforce the role of mathematics as an overarching resource for industry and business, interpreted in their broadest sense. It will attract leading figures from business, science and government, promote the application of innovative mathematics to industry, and emphasise industrial sectors that offer the most exciting opportunities for mathematicians to provide insight and new ideas.

Highlighted themes will be:

• Socio-economic interactions
• Medicine and the medical industry
• Sport and leisure
• Uncertainty and risk
• Optimisation and control
• Energy

Registration

Registration for this major event is open, and 20 June 2008 is the closing date for registration and payment. For full information, please visit the ECMI2008 website.

Programme

The programme is beginning to take shape and you can find details of the 11 invited talks and the 37 minisymposia on the ECMI2008 website.

Posters

It is still possible to contribute a poster to this meeting - either as well as or instead of a contributed talk - and there will be prizes for the best poster and the best student poster. Why not use this opportunity to showcase your research group by submitting several posters to be displayed together? Special group rates may be available (contact amy.marsh@ima.org.uk).

Events

The meeting will be opened by Professor David Delpy, the Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council at 2pm on Monday June 30.

The Conference Dinner on Thursday 3rd July and the Welcome Reception on Monday 30th June are included in the registration fee.

On Wednesday 2nd July from 17.45 to 18.30 there will be a discussion on "Where are all the Industrial Mathematicians?" preceded by a talk by industrial mathematician Andreas Schuppert entitled "Mathematics in Industry - cost factor or key for profits?"

The final session at 12.30 on Friday July 4 will include a brief review of the highlights of the meeting.

First announcement

Alan Tayler Lecturer

• Mario Primicerio (Universita' degli Studi di Firenze)

Plenary Speakers

• Andrea Bertozzi (University of California Los Angeles)
• Benoit Desjardins (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
• Manuel Doblare (Universidad de Zaragoza)
• Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia University)
• Miguel Moscoso (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
• Colin Please (University of Southampton)
• Yongji Tan (Fudan University, Shanghai)
• Jonathan Tawn (Lancaster University)
• Nick Trefethen (University of Oxford)

Key Dates

• 30 November 2007 Deadline for mini-symposia proposals
• 15 December 2007 Approval of mini-symposia by committee
• 18 January 2008 Deadline for receipt of contributed abstracts, mini-symposia abstracts and poster proposals
• 1 February 2008 Contributing authors notified of acceptance or rejection of submissions
• 22 February 2008 Early Bird registration deadline
• 2 May 2008 Confirmation and payment of accommodation
• 20 June 2008 Closing date for registration and payment