Student mathematical modelling workshops as preparation for study groups with industry

Study groups with industry are organised on a regular basis on all continents. In the European context, study groups with industry (as initiated in Oxford University in the 1960s and continued under the umbrella of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI)) are week long meetings where groups of industrialists, mathematicians and other scientists work intensively on problems proposed by the industrialists. The Mathematics Application Consortium for Science and Industry (MACSI) in the University of Limerick (UL) has been organising a study group every year since 2008. The study group format is standard. Mathematicians and other scientists gather for approximately a week with industrial collaborators to find solutions to a set of problems proposed by the industrialists.