88th EUROPEAN STUDY GROUP with INDUSTRY Department of Mathematics Technical University of Denmark 13 - 17 August 2012 ESGI (European Study Group with Industry) is Europe's leading workshop bringing together academic mathematicians and industrial companies. These week-long workshops have been held annually since 1968 and were previously known as the Oxford Study Groups with Industry, where they attracted leading mathematicians to work on industrial problems. Companies bring to the Study Group mathematical questions they would like to have solved, often in the form of a modelling problem or an optimization issue. The mathematicians work in groups around each problem, presenting at the end of the week to the companies the result of their efforts, and afterwards a written report.

Important dates

• Deadline for submission of a problem is 1 August 2012 and the fee is DKK 25.000.
• Deadline for registration for academics and Ph.D. students is 31 July 2012 and there is no fee.
  Registration is done by sending an email to Kari Haugland <k.haugland (a) mat.dtu.dk>

More information

• Poster with general information.
• Folder For companies (in English) . ---- For virksomheder (På dansk).
• For academics
• Travel Info
  • Getting to DTU Lyngby
  • Map of DTU campus
  • Weather forecast
  
  
• In connection with the study group, there is a Ph.D. course: Modern Methods in Industrial Mathematics . This 5 ECTS course include participation in the study group, and begins four days before the 'regular' study group with lectures and course work, i.e. the course runs August 09-17. For general information see the course folder.
  
  The 1-day lecture courses this year will be:
  • Wolfram Just (Queen Mary University of London): Applied Time Delay Dynamics
  • Cameron Hall (Oxford): The Power of the Small: A Short Introduction to Perturbation Methods
  • Thomas Lorenz (Goethe University Frankfurt): Differential Inclusions
  
  
• ESGI88 Problems
  • Siemens Flow Instruments problem description
  • GO Development problem description
  • Greenwood Engineering problem description
  • Flonidan A/S problem description
  
  
• ESGI week overview
  
  Sunday evening, at 18:30: In the garden of building 303 (enter through entrance 303-B) a modest welcome reception, with pizza and drinks.
  
  Registration on Monday morning 9-10 in Building 306.
  
  The Monday and Friday morning problem presentation, and other plenum sessions, will be in building 306, auditorium 38, see the map. The group work is in rooms 96,97,98,99, upstairs in building 306.
  
  

Problem areas studied have included mechanics, heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, financial derivative pricing and processes, granular materials, electric fields, geometry, and topics in operational analysis, but there are in principle no limitations in the types of mathematics brought to bear in these workshops.

Among the Danish companies who have participated in previous Study Groups are LEGO, Novo Nordisk, Danfoss, Grundfos, DSB, DONG, Danske Bank, and many others.