Industrial Mathematics Initiative

Industrial Mathematics Initiative

Background

The Industrial Mathematics Initiative (IMI) at the University of South Carolina was founded in 1988 as a loose confederation of the research programs of individual Mathematics Department faculty members

The primary missions of the IMI are the development of advanced applied and computational mathematics and the rapid transfer of such mathematics directly into the industrial sector.

Faculty and Staff

The IMI infrastructure has been greatly enhanced with the aid of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, awarded to the investigators above together with the late Björn Dahlberg. The grant, effective 1992-97, was awarded through NSF EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). With initial support from this grant, the IMI and Department of Mathematics added the following five permanent faculty members:

together with graphics specialist L. Scott Johnson and business manager Janice B. Long. The following Mathematics Department faculty members are also associated with IMI:

Research

The principal areas of research expertise are in

harmonic analysis and wavelets
approximation theory and numerical analysis
partial differential equations and nonlinear wave theory
advanced scientific computing.

The main areas of applications to date have been

image and data analysis (wavelets compression and noise removal)
remote sensing and target recognition
computer aided design and manufacturing (fast pde solvers)
groundwater and contaminant transport modeling.

External Funding

Primary external funding for IMI projects has been received from

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Department of Defense EPSCoR (DoD EPSCoR)
Department of Energy (DOE)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Office of Naval Research (ONR).

This page maintained for the Department of Mathematics by Colin Bennett.
Last updated March 2, 1998.