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Bastiaan Geelhoed
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Dr. Bastiaan Geelhoed (University of Sussex, UK)
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Friday July 3, 2007
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| Title: |
Effective
Scientific Consulting: A Case Study
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Abstract
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Industries
and universities can benefit from close collaboration with each other.
In most cases, this collaboration is consultancy provided by university
to industry. Industry is helped with learning how to solve certain
"impossible" problems, while the scientists find it rewarding to work
on "real-world" research projects. For mathematical consultancy,
crucial factors in a successful collaboration are the mathematical
knowledge, mathematical tools and mathematical skills that are
available to the university. Besides the actual performance of a
research project on which industry and university collaborate there are
several other stages in the consultancy process, i.e. initial contact,
dialogue, feedback, and evaluation. The importance of each stage will
be discussed using a case study of a real industrial problem, where the
application of mathematics played a central role in finding a solution.
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