U.S.-France (INRIA) Joint Seminar: Transfer of Mathematics to Industry in the U.S. and France, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1991

该奖项将支持美国和法国数学家之间的联合研讨会，该研讨会的主题是将数学转移到美国和法国的工业。研讨会将于1991年10月在明尼苏达大学数学及其应用研究所(IMA)举行。美国的组织者是IMA的Avner Friedman博士和Willard Miller博士。共同发起组织是位于法国罗肯库尔的法国国家计算机科学与自动化研究所(INRIA)。IMA和INRIA都与工业界有广泛的联系。IMA最近启动了一个名为“工业数学博士后”的项目，IMA的年度和夏季项目也吸引了大量来自行业的参观者。INRIA正在进行一种与工业接触的不同体验，它有着多学科研究的悠久传统，将计算机科学和应用数学(控制和科学计算)结合在一起。这项研究是与多个行业合作进行的，如达索、Aerspciale、标致和法国电力公司。它主要是在共同的项目中进行的，涉及INRIA研究人员、工业界的工程师和博士生，他们中的大多数后来被工业界招募。此外，INRIA还组织了许多研讨会、座谈会和高级课程，旨在将新的思想和技术传授给工业界。拟议的研讨会是IMA和INRIA决定将大学和行业的关键人物聚集在一起的结果，他们在两个社区之间架起了桥梁。研讨会的目标是：1)促进将当前感兴趣的数学问题和适用于工业的数学知识转移到工业中；2)勾勒出未来工业数学研究的方向；3)讨论培养数学研究生在工业中取得成功的最佳方法，在做好数学的同时。

This award will support a joint seminar between US and French mathematicians on the topic of the transfer of mathematics to industry in the US and France. The seminar will be held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, in October 1991. The US organizers are Drs. Avner Friedman and Willard Miller of the IMA. The co-sponsoring organization is the French National Institute for Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), Roquencourt, France. Both the IMA and INRIA have extensive contacts with industry. The IMA has recently initiated a program "Postdoctorates in Industrial Mathematics" and the annual and summer programs at the IMA also bring in large number of visitors from industry. A different experience of contact with industry is going on at INRIA, which has a long tradition of multidisciplinary research, mixing computer science and applied mathematics (control and scientific computing). This research is done in cooperation with various industries, such as Dassault, Aerospaciale, Peugot and Electricite de France. It is largely performed in common projects, involving INRIA researchers, engineers from industry and PHD students, most of whom are later recruited by industry. In addition, INRIA organizes many seminars, symposia and advanced courses aimed at transferring new ideas and techniques to industry. The proposed seminar is the result of a decision by IMA and INRIA to bring together key individuals from universities and industry, who are playing roles in building bridges between the two communities. The goals of the seminar are: 1) to facilitate transfer of mathematical problems of present interest to industry, and mathematical knowledge applicable to industry, 2) to outline future mathematical research directions in industry, and 3) to discuss the best methods of educating mathematics graduate students to be successful in industry, while doing good mathematics.