Organisational Chart

Overview of various committees and their tasks

Members of the network will be nodes, i.e. either multidisciplinary academic groups with a strong profile in mathematics, or industrial companies.

The strategy board is the body responsible for the long-term strategy, including dissemination and promotion of ideas. On this board, people of high visibility, a broad vision and thorough expertise in the area of industrial mathematics will see to it that MACSI-net is staying on course. Both through recommendations to the executive committee and through own authoritative actions the basic views that brought MACSI-net into existence will be kept vivid. It is also anticipated that this body will publish its outlook on mathematics in industry. It is hoped that a sufficiently wide publication of these views will be an important instrument for policy makers and workers in the field alike.

The overall co-ordination will be done through the executive committee, which will encompass the chairpersons of each of the subcommittees. The executive committee is the body where co-ordination and feedback of results from the various activities takes place.

The research committee will steer the active exploration of new challenges and areas where mathematics, scientific computing and engineering have a potential for synergetic methodologies.

The industrial relations committee will actively look for ways to increase industrial participation and explore how to involve new branches of industry or catch the interest of related industries.

Besides the above mentioned newsletter and web pages the workshops will also provide means for this. Industry will be addressed through direct participation (industrial nodes), newsletters and direct mailing, inviting them to participate in workshops and special projects.

The committee on infrastructure will initiate and advise on how the information dissemination can be done the best possible way. It will monitor the web pages as they give an "on-line feedback" and co-ordinate with the editor of the newsletter.

The role of the committee on training will be visible at somewhat longer time scales. This committee will take initiatives to define proposals for graduates and postgraduates to work in industry. They will not only form important liaisons between academia and industry but also will be equipped with the appropriate mentality as industrial mathematicians. It is to be expected that they will naturally become the bridge builders in this university-industry relationship.