Rennes, May 25, 2020: innovation and mathematics
The association Le temps des sciences and the Agence Lebesgue, mathématiques pour l’innovation are jointly organizing an event bringing together mathematical research laboratories and businesses from Brittany and the Pays de la Loire, entitled "Innovation and Mathematics Day." Representatives from 350 companies are expected at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) on May 25, 2020. The organizers' slogan is: "SMEs, come and discover what mathematics can do for you!"
Researchers and "premium partners," spread across some twenty themed stands, will present the results of their collaborations with companies of various sizes and from a range of sectors. They will explain the problems they helped tackle.
Besides the stands, the day's program will feature short talks, a symposium and a lecture (see below).
Information and registration: **www.journee-innovation-et-mathematiques.com**
A wide range of topics -----------------
The aim of the "Innovation and Mathematics Day" on May 25 is to support the transformation of the economy by making businesses aware of the tremendous potential of mathematical innovation. In particular, it will highlight the impact of mathematics on the economy. Without mathematics, there would be no bank cards or e-commerce, whose security relies on cryptographic techniques; no digital music, images or videos, distributed using compression algorithms; and no mobile phones, packed with error-correcting and encryption codes…
Mathematics also crops up in more unexpected places, such as protecting and stimulating plants: "Faced with an influx of data, particularly genetic data, we had to strengthen our statistical expertise so that we could extract as much information as possible and estimate the performance of our plants reliably and accurately", says Cédric Loi, a biostatistician at Limagrain, a specialist in agricultural seeds.
Mathematics is essential wherever signal processing, image analysis, modeling, simulation, optimization, high-performance computing, security and, of course, mining the massive datasets generated by the Web or connected devices are involved. It is present in every sector of the economy and invariably provides a tremendous boost to innovation.
Toulouse, March 15, 2017: innovation, mathematics and industry
One of the first events to bring together mathematicians, teachers, businesses and students—even high-school students—was held in 2017 at the Institut de mathématiques de Toulouse (université Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier, Haute-Garonne). Jointly organized with the cercle Sofia-Kovalevskaïa and CIMI, a centre of excellence (Centre international de mathématiques et d’informatique), it invited all these groups to discover how mathematics serves innovation and industry—from those who had never imagined such connections and still wondered what mathematics was useful for to those who already knew that its applications were too numerous to count.
The technical topics covered ranged from spatial audio to mathematics in space projects, taking in Kalman filtering applied to navigation, uses of statistics in biomedicine and neural networks for computer vision.