At the Industrial Day, several mathematical challenges from companies and societal organisations will be showcased. The event opens new channels of communication between companies, societal organisations and mathematicians. Industrial mathematics will feature prominently through an interactive programme highlighting the many outstanding contributions of applied mathematics. The day is designed for both young and senior researchers, as well as decision-makers who want to understand how mathematical modelling, simulation, optimisation and data-driven methods can create value in practice.
Expect practical examples, open discussion and plenty of time to make connections across disciplines and sectors.
Why attend?
For companies and societal organizations, Industrial Day is a chance to explore fresh approaches to complex challenges, meet researchers with the right expertise and start conversations that can lead to collaboration.
For industrial mathematicians, it is an opportunity to discover new application areas, exchange ideas with peers and demonstrate how applied mathematics can make a measurable difference.
Programme
The programme combines short, focused challenge pitches with presentations by representatives of companies, followed by ample time for questions, discussion and connection. The plenary and prize lectures in the main conference programme will also include direct applications of mathematics in industry.
13:00-14:20 Pitch and Discuss
Four short pitches will introduce challenges that can be tackled with mathematics. Each pitch will be followed by lively interaction, with time to exchange ideas and connect with other participants while walking around the room.
14:30-15:50 Company presentations
14:30 - 14:45 Accelerating Virtual Engineering: Bridging Physics and Data across Industrial Scales
Michael Schick and Uwe Iben (Bosch Research)
14:45 - 14:55 Questions and discussion
15:00 - 15:15 Company presentation (to be announced)
15:15 - 15:25 Questions and discussion
15:25 - 15:40 Company presentation (to be announced)
15:40 - 15:50 Questions and discussion
Join the conversation
Bring a challenge, a promising method or simply your curiosity. The Industrial Day is a place to turn mathematical insight into practical conversation and vice versa.
Abstracts
Accelerating Virtual Engineering: Bridging Physics and Data across Industrial Scales
Michael Schick and Uwe Iben (Bosch Research)
Modern industrial virtual engineering spans the entire product lifecycle—from early concept design and topology optimization torigorous safety validation and continuous operational monitoring. Across highly diverse engineering domains, such as automotive brake systems, consumer appliances, power tools, and hydrogen fuel cells, engineering teams face a common bottleneck: the immense computational cost of high-fidelity simulations.
In this talk, we highlight some examples from engineering that demand surrogate models to accelerate simulation: exploring thousands of non-linear dynamic pressure trajectories, predicting localized interface and crevice corrosion mechanisms, and conducting multi-objective shape & topology optimization. However, the proper choice of a suitable speed-up method depends on many factors. From pure physics, via hybrid up to pure data-based approaches the solution space seems overwhelmingly big. We discuss practical insights and open challenges in selecting appropriate surrogate modeling methodologies, offering engineering teams practical insights to successfully balancing computational speed, physical accuracy, and data availability across complex industrial applications.