Jun 23, 2009 - Claremont, Calif. - The workshop will follow a model begun at Oxford University in 1968 and which continues today through the European Study Group with Industry. The program will begin with a student study camp from July 24 to 26. During the Math-in-Industry workshop, which runs from July 27 to 31, seven problems, covering areas such as semiconductor modeling and microarray statistics, will be presented by the industrial sponsors on Monday morning, July 27. The invited audience, comprising 30 graduate and undergraduate students—including two each from HMC and Claremont McKenna College—and 30 faculty from various universities, will separate into "study groups" until Friday, July 31. The workshop will conclude with a reporting session and close of proceedings, and there will be a subsequent final written report. "Our goal is to provide affordable consulting for industrial clients in a setting where academics solve industrial problems," according to Lisette de Pillis, Norman F. Sprague Jr., Professor of Life Sciences, director of the Harvey Mudd College Center for Quantitative Life Sciences and the director of the Harvey Mudd College Global Clinic program. "This workshop is like a super-compressed Clinic experience, but it involves students and faculty as the problem solvers. Students and faculty from all over the country are invited to participate." The workshop is being sponsored by the Harvey Mudd College Center for Quantitative Life Sciences and a $46,541 National Science Foundation grant that names de Pillis as co-principal investigator. The workshop is directed by de Pillis and Ellis Cumberbatch, program director of the Joint Ph.D. Program in Engineering and Industrial Applied Mathematics at Claremont Graduate University. More information is available at the workshop website, or by contacting Ellis Cumberbatch at (909) 607-3369 or ellis.cumberbatch@cgu.edu.
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