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It's a cross-cutting tool used in finance and induction furnace design.
Mathematics is Itmati's obsession, the Galician technological institute.
It merges our universities' methods and is a role model throughout Europe.
They've developed solutions since the 80's, by using what?
Numbers and computing.
They are led by the father of industrial mathematics:
the professor of the USC, Alfredo Bermúdez.
Keen on engineering and seduced by mathematics,
he learnt from the French Academy of Sciences' ex president.
The situation was different than now, I'm talking about the early 70's.
And I tried to figure out a problem in the industry
and, at that time, Estano was still open. They built impressive oil tankers.
But, there wasn't interest in mathematics, right?
Then, industrial projects came. The first one with Avions Marcel Dassault,
which didn't succeed, basically, due to economic reasons, and was focused on
a European space shuttle.
We calculated the entry of the spacecraft in the atmosphere.
Then, there were other projects.
With him, transfer came.
Before the Bologna Process, firms and universities
were already together here, calculating and giving keys
for the development of a French aviation company.
The applied mathematics, statistics, and operations research teams
have collaborated for 20 years with local and foreign companies.
The Mathematics-Industry Network has a catalog of successful cases
about mathematical transfer to the industry.
It gathers around 16 experiences of the teams belonging to our institute.
There are firms from all industries: in metallurgy, there's Ferroatlántica;
in the energy field, we can mention Endesa;
in the automotive industry, we have Cie Galfor;
in the naval field, companies like Navantia.
And some of our teams, also members of this Network,
are carrying out joint projects with Repsol.
Peregrina Quintela runs the technological institute Itmati,
a unique institution where the expertise of Galician universities converges.
A talented effort which made Galicia lead the industrial mathematics research.
50% of mathematical technology transfer to Spanish firms is Galician.
Its aim is to help companies to innovate through mathematical technology.
A great advantage is that this technology is relatively cheap.
We don't need huge investments in big equipment.
Our equipment is only books and computers.
And, above all, good brains.
It's, especially, a question of people.
In other contexts, expensive and strong infrastructures are needed.
In mathematics, it's all about people; especially, well-trained people.
And that's difficult to achieve.
Almost 200 local researchers, 50% doctors, work for the Itmati.
Galicia has known best how to exploit a cross-cutting tool
which can either predict accident rates for Inditex's insurance department,
or design and study the operation of an induction furnace.
This industry collaboration makes us train our students better,
more into what reality is, and the future they will have
when they develop a professional career.
And, obviously, this is more traditional.
Being up to date on research makes education better, more dynamic,
renew itself every day.
This, let's say, closely linked triad is the main success of the Itmati's teams.
These initiatives have caught Europe's attention,
thus basing the future European Network on the Galician model.
It also seems that our network's name
may even inspire the final name of the European Network.
I mean that, fortunately, in this field,
we are, let's say, proud that Galicia,
which is located over there, in a corner, in Finisterre,
has been put on the map.