Krzysztof Burnecki

Between 26 and 30 June the 22nd ECMI Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics took place at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Lower Silesia, Poland. European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) is a pan-European organisation which promotes the development of applied and industrial mathematics and facilitates cooperation between the academia and the industry. ECMI Conferences are biannual events which started in 1983 and are one of the main European forums where industry and science can interact and exchange ideas.

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Photo: a group picture of the participants in the...

On December 4, 2020, the first MathTech Workshop on Mathematical Technologies for Industry was held in Poland. It was organized by the PL-MATH-IN network as a satellite event of the annual EU-MATH-IN Council Meeting. Originally, the workshop was planned to be held at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN) in Warsaw. However, due to the severe epidemic situation in Poland, it took place online.

The goal of the workshop was to report on recent interesting applied maths projects carried out in Poland. The first edition had five speakers. The first speaker was...