The first ECMI European Summer School in Industrial Mathematics (ESSIM) will take place at the Università degli Studi di Milano, from August 29 to September 12, 2010.
Link to Summer School's web page
The objective of the ESSIM Summer School is to confront Mathematics students with problems coming from Industry, where "Industry" is intended in a broad sense including Economics, Health Industry, Social Services, etc.
The target group is European university graduate students in their 4th to 5th year of study. The main activities consist in solving industrial problems suitable for mathematical modelling, performed in multi-national teams. These projects will be provided by instructors from universities which are partners in the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI).
The problems are chosen from the portfolio of industrial and commercial projects the instructors or their institutions are currently involved in, thereby exposing the students to real world problems of production, commercial or social interest.
The training will be conducted in a two-week School, where the first week will be dedicated to a
preparatory phase, consisting in 4 short courses on Mathematics useful for applications; each course will end with a seminar, held by an industrial speaker, showing the relevance of the mathematical subjects explained during the course to solve industrial problems and exposing the students to up to date European experiences of collaboration between Academy and Industry. The preparatory phase will be followed by a second week of team-based project work on specific problems coming from Industry. The project work will mimic the problem solving approaches used in industry, with emphasis on mathematical modelling as a tool for innovations leading to improved products, manufacturing procedures, business approaches, biotechnologies.
Collaboration and communication skills will also be trained.
The expected outcome is to provide awareness of the students to take up mathematical modelling as a tool for innovation in improving RD procedures in Industry. Each team will give an oral presentation and write a report on the outcomes, which will be published online in the form of proceedings. Also the teaching material used in the preparatory phase will be collected and lecture notes will be published and broadly diffused.
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