Western (U.S.) Workshop on Mathematical Problems from Industry; Summer 2009, Claremont, CA

西方（美国）工业数学问题研讨会；

• 批准号: 0909213
• 负责人: Lisette de Pillis
• 金额: $ 4.65万
• 依托单位: Claremont Graduate University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0909213&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Western; U.S.; Workshop; Mathematical; Problems

De PillisDMS-0909213 The principal investigator and her colleagues organize aworkshop for industrial math problems. The format follows oneintroduced by Oxford University applied mathematicians in 1968,which has been replicated frequently in the UK, Canada, Europe,and in various other countries (there are 8-10 such workshopseach year). The format consists of an initial presentation of anumber of problems by industrial scientists/engineers. Theaudience is then organized into small groups to work separatelyon each problem for 3-4 days. An oral reporting sessionconcludes the week, followed by a written report on each problemsome weeks later. The participants in the workshop consist offrom 30-40 graduate students and about 30 faculty, and with anexpectation of at least 6 problems from industry this means thateach problem is worked on by 10 applied mathematicians. Theworkshop is preceded by a student modeling camp which follows asimilar format except each problem is presented by a facultymember. Some of these problems may have been partially addressedby the faculty presenter, others not, and the aim of the camp isto bring the student participants into the culture of intensivegroup work, and to give them confidence in starting the week whenALL the participants start on NEW, practically-important problemsknowing that their experience and hard work will prove fruitful. Apart from a substantial record of success in providinganswers to the problems (this is catalogued at a web-site wheree-prints for 250 individual reports from recent workshops areavailable in many, quite diverse, application areas), there aremultiple goals for the event: establishment of closer connectionsbetween industrial and academic scientists; education of studentsand faculty about the requirements of industry in the use ofmathematics; training of students in group participation projects(the norm in industry), and the experience of working alongsidefaculty and joining in the ups and downs of intensive work whereprogress is measured by an industrialist in need of a result. Problems committed to the workshop include one from asemiconductor company for modeling current flow in a new designnanoscale transistor, and two from bio-tech companies, onerelating to a medical device that has unwanted internalvibrations and the other needing statistical modeling formicro-array analysis.

首席研究员De PillisDMS-0909213和她的同事们组织了一个关于工业数学问题的研讨会。这种格式遵循了牛津大学应用数学家在1968年推出的一种格式，这种格式在英国、加拿大、欧洲和其他一些国家经常被复制(每年有8-10个这样的工作室)。该格式由工业科学家/工程师对一些问题的初始陈述组成。然后，听课者被组织成小组，分别针对每个问题进行3-4天的工作。口头报告会议结束了一周，然后在几周后对每个问题进行书面报告。研讨会的参与者来自30-40名研究生和大约30名教师，预计至少有6个来自行业的问题，这意味着每个问题都由10名应用数学家解决。研讨会之前有一个学生建模夏令营，采用类似的形式，只是每个问题都由一名教职员工提出。其中一些问题可能已经被讲师部分解决了，另一些则没有，夏令营的目的是将学生参与者带入密集小组工作的文化中，并让他们有信心开始一周的工作，因为所有参与者都知道他们的经验和努力将被证明是卓有成效的。除了在为问题提供答案方面取得了巨大的成功记录(这是在一个网站上编目的，最近研讨会的250份个人报告在许多不同的应用领域都可以找到)，这次活动还有多个目标：在工业和学术科学家之间建立更紧密的联系；对学生和教职员工进行关于工业使用数学的要求的教育；培训学生参与小组参与项目(工业中的规范)，以及与教职员工一起工作和参与密集工作的起起落落的经验，其中进展由需要结果的实业家衡量。提交给研讨会的问题包括来自一家半导体公司的一个用于对新设计的纳米级晶体管中的电流进行建模的问题，以及来自生物技术公司的两个问题，一个与具有不必要的内部振动的医疗设备有关，另一个需要对微观阵列分析进行统计建模。