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:

• Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS) which was established in 2003 under the Centers of Excellence program of the Australian Research Council and joins research groups in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and some other locations.

• 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

• Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), a network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) for the Mathematical Sciences, which is a member of the Canadian Federal Network of Centres of Excellence that is located in Vancouver and encompasses researchers at 38 Canadian universities. MITACS began its operation in 1999 and is funded by the Canadian Government with additional funding from industry, provincial governments, and universities.

• 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.

The cooperation agreements with our partners were signed in November 2004 (MASCOS), October 2005 (CMM),November 2005 (MITACS) and May 2007 (ICM) 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.