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Workshops
Thirty-two companies took part in one-day workshops focused on applications of mathematics and computing to their industry. Six such workshops were held, targeted at sectors identified as being of significant importance to the Scottish economy:
  • Applications of Mathematics in Technical Textiles, January 16th 2002. Report
  • Applications of Mathematics in Optoelectronics, January 30th 2002. Report
  • Applications of Mathematics in Medicine & Biotechnology, February 13th 2002. Report
  • Applications of Mathematics in Food & Agriculture, February 25th 2002. Report
  • Applications of Mathematics in Oil & Gas, March 11th 2002. Report
  • Applications of Mathematics in Semiconductors, April 24th 2002. Report
Forty academics (lecturers, post-doctoral researchers and graduate students) from eight universities took part in the workshops, as well as several other Faraday Partnerships and research organisations. The workshops were used as a mechanism for promoting Faraday Partnerships and the Smith Institute to industry, for demonstrating through practical examples the relevance of mathematics to these sectors, as a networking opportunity and for capturing companies' requirements for collaborating with academics on mathematical problems identified within their businesses.

The workshops have resulted in a number of opportunities for new industrial-academic collaborations. Several small-scale projects were completed during Phase 1. These involved helping a small company validate a design for a proposed broadband internet technology, mathematical modelling of a new device for measuring fluid density in a harsh environment for applications in the oil & gas industry and developing an algorithm to optimise the scheduling of customer orders for a textile company. Several other opportunities arising from the workshops are being developed as Phase 2 of SINIMS.
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