The 1990 CIME course on Mathematical Modelling of Industrial Processes
set out to illustrate some advances in questions of industrial
mathematics, i.e.of the applications of mathematics (with all its
"academic" rigour) to real-life problems. The papers describe the
genesis of the models and illustrate their relevant mathematical
characteristics. Among the themesdealt with are: thermally controlled
crystal growth, thermal behaviour of a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp,
the sessile-drop problem, etching processes, the batch-coil- annealing
process, inverse problems in classical dynamics, image representation
and dynamical systems, scintillation in rear projections screens,
identification of semiconductor properties, pattern recognition with
neural networks. CONTENTS: H.K. Kuiken: Mathematical Modelling of
Industrial Processes.- B. Forte: Inverse Problems in Mathematics for
Industry.- S. Busenberg: Case Studies in Industrial Mathematics.