MATHEMATICS – INFORMATICS - ENGINEERING (MAIN-EN) GROUP

CAMT (Prof. Koch) CETRA (Prof. Skyva) EURROMMAT (Dr. Purice) HERMES (Prof. Zenios) HUNTING (Prof. Inzelt) IMPAN BC (Prof.

Przytycki) MATHIAS (Dr. Miklos) MIRACLE (Prof. Marik) BIS-21 (Prof. Dimov)

Centre for Advanced Manufacturing TechnologiesInstitute of Production Engineering and Automation

Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)

Mission:„Creating and processing knowledge for manufacturing know-how”

Coordinator:prof. Jan Koch

CAMT: new research area

•Parallel Kinematics Machines

•Integrated Product

Development

•Rapid Prototyping for

Medicine

•Lean Manufacturing

•Machine Vision

•Six Sigma for Quality

Education, training, consultation, applied research for industrye.g. medicine, automotive, etc.

Support for Transport ApproximationCeTra

Centre for Transport Resesarch (CETRA)

University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia

Mission: Transport Research: Analysis of Differences Approximation Harmonisation

Most important results

Human Resources Support

Scientific staff exchange Long-term working stays Short-term visits Organisation of International Conferences International Workshops

Long-term Persons

Months

60 101

Short-term SK-EU EU- SK

Persons

120 135

Countries

17 17

Conferences

17

Workshops 16

Change of quality of the center

Now part of the ERA - participation in the main stream of the European research in the transportation domain – e.g. FP 6 projects:

EUR2EX – European Rail Research Network of Excellence - NoE project

SurfTran –Support for Sustainanable Transport Research in Slovakia – SSA project

Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy

Coordinator: Dr. Radu PuriceCoordinator: Dr. Radu PuriceRomaniaRomaniahttp://www.imar.ro

European Integration of the Romanian Mathematical Research ActivityEuropean Integration of the Romanian Mathematical Research Activity

Two general objectives have been considered:• The organization at IMAR of a Centre for Advanced

Studies in Mathematics (IMAR-CAS)• The organization of a number of Joint Research

Groups gathering researchers from IMAR and from some important European research centres

Plans and intentions for future - FUTURE PROJECTSSCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES

• To develop the domains of excellence at IMAR• To initiate research on some new directions of significant actual

interest: cryptology, financial mathematics, mathematical models for biological sciences, mathematical models for nanomaterials

• To encourage research on: numeric analysis, theoretical informatics, parallel algorithms

PROJECTS• Development of: - the Centre for Advanced Studies in

Mathematics – IMAR - the information facilities - the Cooperation Initiative with the Mathematics

Institutes from Budapest, Sofia and Warsaw - the existing international joint research groups

“HERMESHERMES” Center of Excellence on Computational Finance & EconomicsCenter of Excellence on Computational Finance & Economics

University of Cyprus

Research Themes:• Enterprise Risk Management • Structure of Household Portfolios• Performance of Financial Services & Institutions• Economics of Aging in Europe (RTN project)• Derivative Securities & Real Options• Capital Markets Research• Macroeconomic Models of Emerging Markets

Prof. Stavros A. Zenios, Rector(& Hercules Vladimirou)http://www.hermes.ucy.ac.cy

Mission:• Pursue research excellence of practical impactat scientific forefront in finance and economics,• Maintain international recognition as reputableresearch institute in fields of competence,• Strengthen international collaborations

MAIN SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS:• Novel methods for integrated financial risk management and applications in financial institutions• Comparative studies of household portfolio choices in several European countries• Performance, profitability and quality of financial services in banking: Pan-European “Customer Satisfaction Barometer” for banks Best paper in Decision Sciences (S.A. Zenios & A. Soteriou), 2001

BENEFITS OF CofEx:

• Improved visibility (nationally and internationally)• Reinforced international networking• Promotion of multi-disciplinary collaborations • Reinforced competitiveness in attraction of projects (esp. domestically)• Dedicated facilities at new University of Cyprus campus (2007)

NEW INITIATIVES & PLANS:

• RiskLab-Cyprus (joint venture with Algorithmics, Inc.)• Proposal for establishment of Risk Management Institute (in cooperation with Un. of Cambridge and funding from Cyprus Govt.)• MSc program in Financial Engineering (with Un. of Cambridge)• Initiation of new research proposals (domestic & international)

Computer and Automation Institute (CAI)

Hungarian Academy of SciencesCentre of Excellence for Automation and

Computer Sciences (HUN-TING)Dr. Peter Inzelt - director,

past directors: Acad. I. Vámos, Akad. L. Keviczkyvd.: Prof. Győrfi, Prof. Bokor, Prof. Monostori, Prof. Demetrovics, Prof. Roska, Prof.Kovács, Prof. Kacsuk, Prof.Rónyai, ... http://www.sztaki.hu/

Mission: Promote the high- tech ICT areas, to help implementing the Information Society:

Multimedia, picture processing, Multi-agent Systems, Grammar Systems Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Virtual-,Extended

Enterprise, CNN-, GRID-, High-performance Symbolic computing Diagnostics, Quality Control of Complex Systems Machine Perception/Computer Vision Biocybernetics, “ BIONICS”

HUN-TING - Developments

• Cellular Neural Network, theoretical, scientific results

• GRID technology, Agent-based technologies,

• Constraint-based programming,

• Robust Control, Decision Support Systems,

• Fleet management, Vision-in-the-loop for automotive areas,

• Film restoration, Global cconferencing technology,

• Virtual Laboratories establishment

• World Science Forum -2003

• WWW World Conference

• IMS, CIRP,

• IST prise, VISION 1st prize

Dissemination, exploitation

•Visiting scientists,

•Confs, Workshops,

•Ph.D, Dr. Acad titles,

•books, periodicals, journals

IMPAN-BC Centre of Excellence

Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center,

as a Centre of ExcellenceMission: • Transforming IMPAN-BC into an international world class research institute• Directing IMPAN-BC towards applications of mathematics, in cooperation with

other sciencesPackages

1. Public-Key Cryptography and Computational Number Theory2. Information Theory and its Applications to Physics, Finance and Biology.

Dynamical Systems.3. Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Cellular Populations4. Nonlinear Systems and Control5. Mathematics of Finance and Stochastic Control6. Approximation structures in Banach spaces7. Symplectic Singularities and Applications8. Visual Modelling (with the help of Interdisciplinary Centre of Mathematical

Modelling of Warsaw University)

55 long term (1-6 months) visits by foreign personnel and 13, (av. 6 months) PHD students within Marie Curie Training Site: BANACH

Creating at IMPAN a Mathematical Center of Science and Technology, with several seminars (e.g. bioinformatics and cell population dynamics

Development of a Quantum Geometry team (participation in a ToK programme, launched Feb 2004, located at the Physics Department of Warsaw University)

Highlights and further developments

Partner in the Network of Excellence ECRYPT, European Network of Excellence in Cryptology, IST-2003, started 1 Feb 2004.

Expertise in the introduction of electronic signature infrastructure in Poland.

Partner in FP6 Marie Curie RTN PHD, Phenomena in High Dimensions, invited for negotiations.

Development of IMPAN Mathematical Research and Conference Center in Będlewo, hosting now most of our conferences.

MATHIASMathematics in Information Society

Main mission:pursue fundamental research in mathematics knowledge transfer to postgraduate or post-doctoral level.

Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

Conferences

• Workshop and Conference on Hypergraphs • Higher Dimensional Varieties and Rational Points • Conference on Information Theory, Cryptography and

Statistics • Workshop on Approximation Theory • Workshop on Periodicity and Quasiperiodicity • HAJDUCRYPT '02 • Logic, Algebra, Relativity • Workshop on Extremal Graph Theory • Groups and Probability • Von Neumann Centennial Conference

Changes

During the last three years the incoming visits and international events (not only the CofEx related ones) to the Renyi Institute have boosted, making the Institute a real scientific center, which came together with a noticeable improvement of the infrastructure (financed mainly from local resources).

Machine Intelligence Research and Application

Centre for Learning Excellence (MIRACLE)

Prof. Vladimir MarikDepartment of CyberneticsCzech Technical University in Praguehttp://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/

Mission:Develop the Centre towards aninternationally recognized researchbody in the areas: Multi-agent Systems: System Integration,

Knowledge Management, Teamwork Diagnostics, Quality Control of Complex Systems Machine Perception/Computer Vision Biocybernetics

MIRACLE - Scientific Developments• Theory of multiagent systems (architecture of the tri-base model for

administration of social knowledge among agents, its utilization in production planning, architecture of a meta-agent)

Second Main Prize at the Agent Technology Competition in Barcelona for X-Security prototype, 2003

• Theory of computer vision (omnidirecional vision, new methods based on local affine frames have achieved the best performance on standard recognition problems reported in the literature)

Best Science Paper Prize, British Machine Vision Conference, 2002: J. Matas et al.

MIRACLE - Change of Quality

Linking the Centre with the leading research bodies in Europe (and worldwide)

Successful participation in the 5th Framework programme (15 projects), 6 FP (2 NoE, 1 IP, 1 CA)

Scientific development of the Centre, increased quality of Ph.D. theses (in English)

Increased visibility, reputation and respect of the Centre in the country

(Gerstner Laboratory, Center for Machine Perception)

BULGARIAN INFORMATION SOCIETYCENTER OF EXCELLENCE - BIS 21

Prof. Ivan DimovInstitute for Parallel ProcessingBulgarian Academy of Scienceshttp://www.bas.bg/clpp/index.html; http://

saturn.acad.bg/

Mission:Develop the Centre towards anleading research in:

• Parallel algorithms• Monte Carlo numerical analysis• Information technologies for

environmental protection• Human language technologies• Networks and GRIDs

BIS-21 Scientific developments Information Technologies for Emergency

Situations Forecast

Basic tool for:

• solving problems in the computer science, real-life problems of the modern society (ecological - see the picture on the right-hand side, where an information for the decision makers about the ozone pollution obtained using our Macintosh G4 cluster, is presented, mechanical and civil engineering, etc.);

• developing new tools for nuclear safety using recent results in mathematics (portraits of matrices).

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BIS-21 Change of Quality

IPP BAS is one of the initiators and a co-founder of the recently established Bulgarian GRID Consortium, facing the new priorities of FP6. To link the Centre with the leading research bodies and to intensify the international cooperationTo stimulate scientific development of the Centre, to increase the quality of the scientific development