Between 11th and 14th of November took place at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela the "97 European Study Group with Industry" (97 ESGI), which has already become a singular event and been reproduced worldwide. In this event the mathematical community meets in working groups to address issues presented directly by industry and which are solvable using mathematics.

The 1st edition took place in Oxford in 1968. The European Study Group with Industry (ESGI) provides a collaborative workspace for industrial scientists and mathematical researchers  on problems of interest to industry. This is an internationally recognized method for technology and knowledge transfer between academia and industry.

This is the 1st ESGI conducted in Galicia, and was held at the University of Santiago de Compostela with the collaboration of the Technological Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITMATI, public consortium of the three Galician universities), and the Spanish Network for Mathematics and Industry (math-in). This edition received funding from a project with the Norwegian government in which ITMATI collaborates with other prestigious European institutions such as the Norwegian Institute of Technology Teknova, the "Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics" (OCIAM), the "Norwegian University of Science and Technology" and "University of Agder Campus Grimstad" as well as with companies Elkem, Eramet Norway, Alcoa norway and Saint Gobain Ceramic Materials. The project was co-funded by ERDF and Xunta de Galicia in the framework of the reference help GRC2013-014.
 

ESGI 97, brought together more than forty national researchers and twelve international researchers of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Operations Research, and aimed at the promotion of mathematics transfer to Industry actively seeking research and development where mathematics has a special relevance. Participants were from the following institutions:

• Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
• Institute of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Mathematical Research
• Instituto Tecnológico de Matemática Industrial
• Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche
• Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone"
• National Institute for Mathematica Sciences
• Teknova
• Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
• Universidad de Sevilla
• Universidad de Vigo
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• University of Oxford

During the first session of ESGI researchers dealt with issues raised by the invited companies, Teknova, Alcoa and Elkem CENER . In this edition the problems dealt with combustion, thermoelectric, and renewable energy and resource management fields:

• Electric Scale up for a carbothermic Al-process, presentado por Teknova AS y Alcoa Norway ANS.
• Process models for the production of Microalumina presentado por Elkem AS Silicon Materials.
• Design of an optimal measurement sensor network for monitoring renewable resource in geographic areas presented by the National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER).

All these problems can be treated using mathematical, statistical and numerical methods. During these sessions researchers worked together with the participating companies to find a solution to the problems.

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