CIAM
Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

The Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CIAM) is a strategic center at KTH funded by the Swedish Foundation of Strategic Research. CIAM is operated by a consortium of experts in analysis, discrete mathematics and combinatorics, stochastics, numerical analysis, optimization, systems theory, computer science, mathematical statistics and financial mathematics dedicated to bringing to the fore the applied and applicable aspects of modern mathematics.

CIAM is an Associate Partner in the MATHematics European Infrastructure (MATHEI), an initiative initiated by the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and managed by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The purpose of MATHEI, which is is represented by a world-wide network of partner institutions, is to build a virtual world-class European research infrastructure in Mathematics that involves academia, researchers and industry.

CIAM is also an Institutional Partner of the Forward Look Project "Mathematics and Industry" aimed at developing a European vision and policy recommendations on the interactions and synergy between Mathematics and the private sector (Industries, Companies, Banks, Insurances etc.).

NEWS:

2009-09-28
CIAM had its third review meeting on September 28-29 at Lejondal Castle. Read the program here.

2009-05-28
You can read on the Swedish Foundation of Strategic Research's webpage about one of CIAM's research projects under the heading FORSKNINGSRESULTAT

2009-05-13
On Wednesday, May 20, Center for Industrial On Wednesday, May 20, Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CIAM) has the benefit of hosting Dr. Gérard Bricogne from Global Phasing and Dr. Tomas Lundqvist from AstraZeneca. This will be a unique opportunity for those that are interested in learning more about phase retrieval in macromolecular X-ray crystallography. Dr. Bricogne is one of the leading scientists in the development of computational techniques and he will give a seminar aimed towards mathematicians that seeks to provide a brief overview of various mathematical techniques used to solve the phase retrieval problem in macromolecular X-ray crystallography and remaining challenges. The seminar by Dr. Bricogne will be followed later the same day with a seminar by Dr. Tomas Lundqvist from AstraZeneca in which he will discuss how molecular structure information is used in drug discovery and also point to how that relates to challenges in computational techniques. More information on CIAM Seminarwebpage

2009-04-15
The CIAM supported Gnu Multiple Precision (GMP) project has just released a major new version of the GMP bignum library. The person behind this is Torbjörn Granlund, PhD student in CIAM. GMP is by far the most widely used library, both in academia and industry, for computations on large integers. The new release gives very large speed improvments, and is attracting widespread attention. For more information, see http://gmplib.org.

2009-03-04
Anders Lindquist has won the SIAM 2009 Reid prize for his "fundamental contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, signals and control". Read more here

2008-11-07
CIAM Outreach November 26 13.00-17.00 followed by a buffet and mingle 18.00-20.00
Come and meet researchers and PhD students and listen to interesting seminars on applied mathematics! Read more here.

2008-10-22
Professor Margaret H. Wright of New York University will become honorary doctor at KTH on November 21, 2008. There will be a seminar in the morning of November 20, as well as a discussion session in the afternoon of that day, on the theme "Industrial and Applied Mathematics". More information will be given later.

Margaret Wright is a member of the international advisory board of CIAM.