Industrial mathematics
Collaborating with industry is one of the core pillars of the Engineering Mathematics Research Group. Aside from having real-world impact, problems that come from industry partners are often highly challenging and require the development of new mathematical models and techniques.
Industrial mathematics involves taking a real-world problem that is posed (often verbally) by an industry partner and transforming it into a mathematical or computational problem. Afterwards, these problems can be solved using a variety of techniques that span applied mathematics, data science, and machine learning.
Examples of industry-driven problems we've worked on include:
- Decontamination of toxic spills
- Optimisation of shared bike stations
- Modelling and optimisation of coffee brewing
Associated group members:
- David Barton
- Alan Champneys
- Cameron Hall
- Matthew Hennessy
- Anthony Mulholland
- Ryan Palmer
- Stuart Thomson