53rd EUROPEAN STUDY GROUP WITH INDUSTRY 21st - 24th March 2005 Host Venue: School of Mathematics,  University of Manchester, United Kingdom

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GENERAL INFORMATION

ESGI (European Study Group with Industry) is Europe's leading workshop bringing together academic mathematicians and industrial and commercial companies. These four or five day workshops (formerly known as the Oxford Study Groups with Industry) have been held annually in the UK since 1968 and are now well established in the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland. They provide an ideal environment for leading mathematicians to work on industrial problems of all kinds.

The problems offered to the study groups have, in recent years, broadened from traditional applied mathematical fields such as fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, and now include diverse areas such as financial mathematics and option trading, risk analysis and scheduling, and speech recognition. In principle there are no limitations on the types of problems that can be addressed or the types of mathematics which can be used in these workshops. Examples of recent problems include: Measuring glucose content in the aqueous humor; Models of consumer behaviour; Biomimetic spinning of spider silk; GPRS session time distribution; Perspiration modelling of the human foot; Two-phase modelling of air bubbles in ice cream; Helicopter tail rotor instability; Plasma etching of semiconductors; Network design for urban light transport; Incubation of penguin eggs; Small fast inkdrop emission from a nozzle; Protein evolution; Pipe-flow and extrusion of composite materials; The sequencing of aircraft departures; Noise generation by water pipe leaks. All those interested in mathematical modelling and the solution of current real-world problems are invited to participate.

Some time after the Study Group has taken place a report containing the results, comments, ideas and suggestions on each problem is written to provide a formal record for both the industrial and academic participants. These are assembled to form the Study Group Final Report. Study Groups are an effective means of stimulating new collaborative work, and many problems develop into longer-term projects.

All Study Groups with Industry held in the UK are administered by the Smith Institute, managers of the Faraday Partnership for Industrial mathematics. As well as acting as a focus for recent Study Group activity via its website, the Smith Institute works alongside the local organizers of the UK Study Groups, to ensure a good mix of problems and a good match with the available academic expertise.

The organisers can now announce that costs of registration and accommodation for UK academics, postdoctoral fellows and postgraduates are covered by generous support from EPSRC, the Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the Alan Turing Institute. Such participants have only to cover their travel expenses.

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FORMAT

ESGI2005 will be the 53rd in the long-established series and will provide a forum for technical problems to be discussed with leading UK and international applied mathematicians. Approximately 70 mathematicians, including postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students, are expected to attend. The intensive research discussions are inevitably wide-ranging and stimulating as mechanisms and mathematical models are identified for a given process.

The Study Group is based on the discussion of six or more specific problems brought by industrial and commercial representatives. The representatives present the problems to all the participants on the opening day of the workshop. The following days are devoted to problem solving, each by a group of applied mathematicians in partnership with the representative presenting a given problem. Experts in various mathematical fields will be involved with the problems during these days. Preliminary theoretical and computational results are presented and discussed on the final day, and printed reports will be ready a few weeks later. The particular methods, expertise and emphasis applied to each problem can vary significantly. Past experience shows that all participants gain most benefit and the problem analysis remains sharply focused on the desired outcomes if the company representatives remain involved with the group discussions throughout the workshop.

Previous participation has resulted in highly successful and long-lasting collaboration between numerous companies and academic mathematicians on research development and production.

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PROBLEMS FOR CONSIDERATION

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VENUE

The University of Manchester has played an important role in the development of applied and industrial mathematics for well over a century. Notable members of the University have included Horace Lamb, Osborne Reynolds, Lewis Fry Richardson, Sydney Goldstein, Alan Turing, James Lighthill and Fritz Ursell. However, ESGI 2005 will be the first time that the University has hosted a study group. It is timely for the new School of Mathematics to organise such an event because it is just a few months since the University of Manchester was formed from the former Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST. The School, which has some 40 applied mathematicians working in a wide range of areas encompassing industrial, geophysical and biological topics, is keen to reinforce its links to industry and commerce   

ESGI2005 will take place in the Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre, a self-contained high quality conference facility run by the University of Manchester. It is set in its own large grounds on the Fallowfield campus of the University, some 3 miles south of the main campus. Chancellors offers an ideal venue for intensive interaction of study group participants.

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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Venue: Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre, Chancellors Way, Fallowfield, South Manchester. 

Plenary sessions will be held in the Flowers Room of the Complex. Discussion groups will meet in the breakout rooms adjacent to the Flowers Room

Chancellors will be equipped with computers for network facilities, i.e. email, internet, etc. and there is now full wireless access throughout the complex. The following is the schedule for the study group:

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REGISTRATION

To register please use the Web Registration Form.

Web registration is the preferred option for the organising team; however, If absolutely necessary you can instead download a hard copy of the registration form and post or fax it to the address below:

Please register early to facilitate arrangements. 

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ACCOMMODATION / REGISTRATION COSTS

ALL ACCOMMODATION AND REGISTRATION FEES ARE COVERED FOR UK ACADEMIC STAFF, POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS. A limited number of bursaries are available for overseas academics requiring assistance; please email the Chairs of ESGI2005 outlining your case for support.

ESGI2005 is fully residential including overnight accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Accommodation will be offered within the Chancellors Conference Centre although a number of bedrooms will be located in the Willow Bank Hotel a few minutes walk away. The fees cover overnight accommodation for the four nights from Sunday 20th March 2005 to Thursday 24th March 2005, and all meals from breakfast on 21st March through to lunch on Thursday 24th March 2005.

Additional nights bed and breakfast can be arranged at £60 per person per night. Other accommodation may be available at a reduced rate.

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TRAVEL

Details regarding travel to the Chancellors Conference Centre can be found by clicking here. On arrival participants should report to the check-in desk at the Chancellors to pick up their room keys.  No evening meal is provided on Sunday 20th March; however there are many restaurants in close proximity, including many excellent Indian restaurants on the 'curry mile' in neighbouring Rusholme (just head north on Wilmslow Road for about 1/2 a mile).

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UPDATES.

In due course the Final Reports will be posted on these pages.

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FURTHER INFORMATION

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page date: 17/03/2005    School of Mathematics | University of Manchester | Chancellors Conference Centre