Cooperations

Matheon members and the institutions participating in Matheon have and continue to have a wide range of regional, national and international collaborations. Matheon cooperates with the TSB Technology Foundation Berlin in order to contribute to the strengthening of the business location Berlin-Brandenburg. Matheon has engaged in additional formal partnerships with institutions the world over operating under similar circumstances and with related objectives.

Matheon's current national and international partners are:

• Mprime is a Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence for the mathematical sciences , brings together academia, industry and the public sector to develop cutting edge mathematical tools vital to our knowledge-based economy. Mprime work with organizations to identify their challenges, find scientists with the expertise necessary to address these challenges and provide significant funding towards research and innovative solutions. However, Mprime generates benefits that reach far beyond these relationships.
• Centre for Mathematical Modelling (CMM) in Santiago de Chile which operates since 2000 under a Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnoligica (CONICYT) Program for Centers of Excellence in Chile
• Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling of the Warsaw University (ICM), an institution which was established in 1993 by University of Warsaw and is funded by Poland. Research facilities are computer sciences, mathematical models, content analysis, converting and simulation. Industry contacts exist expecially to the aircraft industry.
• Applied Mathematics Institute (AMI) AMI was founded in 2010 as one of the seven Centers of Excellence of the 3TU.Federation. It combines the strengths of the Departments of Applied Mathematics of the three Dutch Universities of Technology: Delft, Eindhoven and Twente.

The cooperation agreements with our partners were signed in November 2004 (MASCOS (abandoned 2011)), October 2005 (CMM),November 2005 (MITACS (abandoned 2011)), May 2007 (ICM), September 2010 (AMI) and November 2011 (Mprime) respectively. respectively. In all cases, Matheon and its partners target at

• collaborative research (if possible jointly with industry)
• joint workshops
• exchange of research students
• exchange visits for junior and senior researchers.

These cooperation agreements have established a worldwide network of centers of excellence, which operate in their countries in a similar way as Matheon does in Germany (and beyond). This network brings together distributed top expertise in a wide range of mathematics as well as superb modelling know-how. All centers involved address challenging industrial and scientific applications in their geographical region and their domain of particular expertise. Possible synergies abound. And this network offers great opportunities for young scientists in every center to begin forming their own future worldwide personal networks.