Themes

ECMI 2008 will emphasise the role of mathematicians as a unique industrial resource.  The conference will be opened by a keynote speech from professor David Delpy, CEO of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The rest of the meeting will take the form of a research conference, which will promote the application of innovative mathematics to industry, interpreted in its broadest sense.  Emphasis will be placed on the industrial sectors that offer the most exciting opportunities for mathematicians of all kinds to provide relevant insight and new ideas. Some of the highlighted themes are below.  Synergies between these themes will be encouraged.

Socio-economic interactions, including agent-based modelling, game theory, logistics in the retail sector.

Medicine and the medical industry, including health systems and planning, surgery, modelling of ageing population, medical devices, patterns in bioinformatics.

Sport and leisure, including equipment design, strategies, gambling and its regulation, biomechanics.

Uncertainty and risk, including pension plans, hedge funds, energy options.

Optimisation and control, including transport systems, sending and communication devices, distributed intelligence.

Energy, including sustainability, extreme events, interactions on the global scale.

Traditional industrial sectors such as glass, metals, textiles, food, electronics, automotive and aerospace.