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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left; "><font size="4"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); ">Call for papers:</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left; "><font size="4"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); ">Workshop</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></font><b style="line-height: 150%; font-size: large; "><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); ">“Math for the Digital Factory”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97); "><font size="4">7
– 9 May, 2014<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: large; "><span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97); ">Organizers:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); ">M. Gerdts (München), D.
Hoemberg, V. Mehrmann, M. Skutella (TU Berlin)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center; ">The workshop is the kick-off meeting of the new ECMI Special Interest Group (SIG) on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Digital Factories. SIGs serve as a platform of scientific exchange between researchers from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">academia and industry and form the central part of ECMI’s research activities in industrial </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">mathematics.</span></p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">The workshop aims at bringing together mathematicians working on modelling, </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">simulation, and optimization with researchers and practitioners from manufacturing </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">industry to develop a holistic mathematical view on digital manufacturing.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Topics of discussion include, but are not limited to</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">-- multibody and PDE systems of production processes</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">-- discrete and continuous models of production planning</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">-- multi-scale models of manufacturing chains </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">-- models for energy consumption of machine tools and more complex production </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">systems</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">-- optimization strategies of energy and material efficient production</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">The workshop consists of a combination of plenary and contributed talks, accompanied by </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">round table discussions. In addition, we plan a session with representatives of the </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">MANUFUTURE technology platform and the EU Industrial Technologies Programme (NMP) </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">about funding opportunities within Horizon 2020.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">We welcome academics and practitioners to participate in this workshop and to submit an </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">abstract for a presentation on any aspect related to digital manufacturing. Please note that </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">the number of participants is limited. We kindly ask you to register at your earliest </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">convenience, but not later than 13 April, 2014.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">A web form for registration and abstract submission as well as further information on the </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">workshop can be found at <a href="http://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/MaDiFa/">www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/MaDiFa/</a></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">It is forseen that a certain number of participants can be financially supported. Please see </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">the registration form. Final decision on financial support will be communicated at latest </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">on April 15, 2014.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">The workshop takes place at the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin. It is located at the subway </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">station "Hausvogteiplatz", which is in the heart of Berlin, close to the historic </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Gendarmenmarkt.</span><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin,</div><div><br></div><div>Matthias Gerdts, Dietmar Hoemberg, Volker Mehrmann, Martin Skutella<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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