Mathematics for industry in Europe (Q1995244)

Summary: We give an overview of the development of mathematics for industry in Europe. The advent of such activities was in the 1970s, when, especially in Oxford, the potential of applications of mathematics was realised by Alan Tayler and his colleagues, and the very successful study groups with industry were set up. It led to discussions about European organisations such as ECMI, founded in 1987, as well as to a number of reports on mathematics in industry, to commercial institutes exploiting mathematics for industrial applications and, finally, to a new organisation that has recently been founded, EU-MATHS-IN. It is important to share these experiences and activities with colleagues, anticipating that mathematics in industry will play a key role in enabling technology, leading, in many respects, to a better world, to innovations and solutions for the many challenges humanity is faced with.