Second European cooperation inaugurated

With only ten employees, the Goteberg-based Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Center for Industrial Mathematics FCC is still a relatively small institute. But plans are already in place to double the number of staff over the coming two years.,

This growth will be made possible through successful partnerships with several well-known Swedish industrial firms such as ABB, Ericsson and Volvo. The FCC continues to receive strong support in equal measure from both the Chalmers University and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
The FCC was born out of the Institute for Tillämpad Matematik (ITM) - the Institute for Applied Mathematics, belonging to the mathematics department of Chalmers University in Göteborg. The former head of the ITM, Uno Nävert, will now also lead the FCC into the future. This continuity in personnel maintains the already well-established contacts in the industrial sector.
Through their close cooperation, both participants will enjoy the advantage of easier access to the market of the partner country. ITWM Director, Professor Dieter Prätzel-Wolters, points out that the partners hardly compete, since each institute clearly has its own core research capabilities: Our strength lies in the fields of virtual design of materials and products, process simulation, financial mathematics and diagnosis systems. The FCC, however, has aligned its focus on biological statistics, finite element method analysis, quality control of communications networks, and the analysis of sensor and measuring systems. In order to ensure that existing knowledge can be shared and put to use, the partners have agreed to an active exchange of scientists. In practice, this exchange is already under way. Cooperation has already taken place on several projects within the ITWM departments of Adaptive Systems and Financial Mathematics. One ITWM staff member has been performing research in Sweden since the founding of FCC one year ago.
Helmut Neunzert, who several years ago launched the initiative to link work in applied mathematics at universities, emphasizes: While European research policies are dominated by the Top-Down-Europe idea in large integrated projects, the FCC has been established to implement a Bottom-Up-Europe approach. On-site cooperative efforts and the exchange of scientists and know-how will generate a far-reaching and solid European scientific research network.,For further information:,Ilka Blauth,Phone +49 6 31 / 2 05-47 49,Fax +49 6 31 / 2 05-41 39 ,E-mail: [e-mail]
Fraunhofer-Institut fur Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik ITWM,Gottlieb-Daimler-Strasse, Gebaude 49,67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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