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The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) is a consortium of academic institutions and industrial companies that acts co-operatively with the following aims:
 * To promote and support the use of mathematical modelling, simulation, and optimization in any activity of social or economic importance.
 * To educate Industrial Mathematicians to meet the growing demand for such experts.
 * To operate on a European scale.

History
In 1985 a meeting in Amsterdam organised by Michiel Hazewinkel, Brenny van Groesen, and Robert Mattheij was named ESMI, European Symposium on Mathematics in Industry. Besides being scientifically successful, the groundwork was laid to establish a European organisation. In 1986, under the leadership of Helmut Neunzert, ECMI (the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry) was founded in Mussbach, as a Dutch Stichting ECMI is registered at the Chamber of Commerce in Rotterdam (NL) with number 41129899, category 14, dated May 1986.

Presidents

 * 1987    Michiel Hazewinkel
 * 1988    Helmut Neunzert (de)
 * 1989    Alan B Tayler (died.1995)
 * 1990 Hansjoerg Wacker    (died.1991)
 * Jan 1 1991 - July 31 1992     Antonio Fasano
 * Aug 1 1992 - June 30 1993 Jukka Sarvas
 * July 1 1993 - Oct 12 1993    Henrik Martens    (died 1993 in office)
 * Jan 1 1994 - June 30 1996 Heinz Engl
 * July 1 1996 - Dec 31 1998     Robert Mattheij
 * Jan 1 1999 - June 30 2001 Vincenzo Capasso
 * July 1 2001 - Dec 31 2003     Hilary Ockendon
 * 2004 - 2005 Helge Holden
 * 2006 - 2007 Luis Bonilla
 * 2008 - 2009 Michael Günther (Mathematician) (de)
 * 2010 - 2011 Wil Schilders
 * 2012 - 2013 Magnus Fontes
 * 2014 -  2015 Stephen B.G. O'Brien
 * 2016 - 2017 Dietmar Hömberg
 * 2018 - 2020 Adérito Araújo

Structure and governance
The governing body of the ECMI is its Council, which comprises delegates representing all countries hosting ECMI Institutional Members. The Council meets twice a year, and appoints the President, the Vice-President, the Director, the Secretary the Treasurer, that form the Executive Committee.

ECMI Committees
Besides the Executive Committee, the ECMI has standing the Educational Committee and the Research and Innovation Committee.

Educational Committee
This committee meets twice a year and is in charge of all educational activities. In particular, the exchange of students and teachers between the ECMI partner universities and the organization of the international student workshops (the ECMI Modelling Weeks).

Modelling Weeks
ECMI has been running annual modelling weeks for students every summer since 1988. Students attending come from ECMI member universities all over Europe to spend a week working in small multinational groups on projects which are based on real life problems. Each group is led by an ECMI instructor who introduces the problem, usually formulated initially in non-mathematical terms, and then guides the students towards a solution during the week. The students present on the final day their results to the other groups and afterwards write up their work as a joint report.

Research and Innovation Committee
The ECMI Research and Innovation Committee is focused on new trends in research connected with industrial mathematics. Is also responsible for the coordination of ECMI Special Interest Groups and oversees and enumerates the sequence of European Study Groups with Industry.

Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) exist to promote collaborative research on specific topics in Mathematics for Industry within Europe. A particular aim is to enable researchers (from both academia and industry) with similar interests to get together and submit proposals for funding to the European Union or to other funding bodies. ECMI can act as a catalyst in the formation of such a group by offering advice about the expertise available within Europe, by posting information on the web pages and by circulating information about events to all members.

Current SIGs are investigating topics in:
 * Shape and Size in Medicine, Biotechnology and Materials Science
 * Liquid Crystals, Elastomers and Biological Applications
 * Math for the Digital Factory
 * Numerical Weather Prediction
 * Computational Finance
 * Sustainable Energies
 * Advancing the Design of Medical Stents
 * Net Campus for Modeling Education and Industrial Mathematics
 * Mathematics for Big Data
 * Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in Electrical Engineering (MSOEE)

European Study Groups in Industry
European Study Groups with Industry are an internationally recognised method of technology transfer between academic mathematicians and industry. These week long workshops provide a forum for industrial scientists to work alongside academic mathematicians on problems of direct industrial relevance.

ECMI Journal of Mathematics in Industry
The Journal of Mathematics in Industry is a high-quality journal that brings together research on developments in mathematics for industrial applications, including both methods and the computational challenges they entail.

Book Series
The ECMI Springer Subseries of Mathematics in Industry.

Annual Report
ECMI publishes an Annual Report once a year which is sent to each of its members.

Conferences
An ECMI conference is held every two years, attended by academic applied mathematicians and industrial scientists, the latter comprising about 25 per cent of the total attendance. The ECMI conference aim to enforce the interaction between academy and industry, leading to innovation in both fields. They are one of the main forums where significant advances in industrial mathematics are presented, bringing together prominent figures from business, science and academia to promote the use of innovate mathematics to industry. They also encourage industrial sectors to propose challenging problems where mathematicians can provide insight and new ideas.

Alan Tayler Memorial Lecture
This lecture was set up by the ECMI Council to honour Alan Tayler who died on January 28th 1995. Alan was one of the founding members of ECMI and was the third President in 1989. The Alan Tayler Lecture has been a key feature of the biennial ECMI conferences since 1996.

Anile-ECMI Prize for Mathematics in Industry
The Anile-ECMI Prize for Mathematics in Industry was established honouring Professor Angelo Marcello Anile (1948-2007) of Catania, Italy. It consists of a prize of 2500 Euros and an invitation to give a talk at the ECMI conference. The prize is given to a young researcher for an excellent PhD thesis in industrial mathematics successfully submitted at a European university.

Winners


 * 2010 Andriy Vasyliovich Hlod, Technological University of Eindhoven.
 * 2012 Francesco Ferranti, University of Ghent, Belgium.
 * 2014 Paolo Pintus, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa.
 * 2016 Francesc Font Martinez, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain.
 * 2018 Peter Gangl, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria.

Hansjörg Wacker Memorial Prize
The Hansjörg Wacker Memorial Prize was established in memory of ECMI founding member Hansjörg Wacker (1939-1991), who was Professor of Numerical Mathematics at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz. The prize is jointly funded by ECMI and by a consortium of institutions from Linz which comprise the Industrial Mathematics Institute and the Institute of Computational Mathematics of Johannes Kepler University, and the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It consists of a prize of 1000 Euros and the invitation to attend the ECMI conference presenting his/her project as a contributed talk. The prize is awarded for the best mathematical dissertation at the Masters level on an industrial project, which was submitted at an ECMI institution.

Winners


 * 1993 (or 1992?) Joachim Weickert, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
 * 1994 M.J. Noot, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
 * 1996 Alberto Mancini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Matematica ???U.Dini'', Italy.
 * 1998 ??
 * 2000 Carl F. Stein, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
 * 2002 Nicole Marheineke, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany.
 * 2004 Sabine Zaglmayr, Graz University of Technology, Austria.
 * 2006 Filippo Terragni University of Milano, Italy.
 * 2008 Lauri Harhanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
 * 2010 ??
 * 2012 NO PRIZE
 * 2014 Kishan Patel, University of Oxford, UK.
 * 2016 Elisa Riccietti from the Università degli Studi Firenze, Italy.
 * 2018 Edvin Åblad, Chalmers University, Sweden.

Vincenzo Capasso and Matti Heiliö, ECMI in global and european scenarios, Journal of Mathematics in Industry, 1-5 (2011).

Membership
ECMI has both industrial and academic (universities and others) members.