Stavros Busenberg & Bruno Forte 
Mathematical Modelling of Industrial Processes 
Lectures given at the 3rd Session of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Bari, Italy, Sept. 24-29, 1990

The 1990 CIME course on Mathematical Modelling of Industrial Processes set out to illustrate some advances in questionsof industrial mathematics, i.e.of the applications ofmathematics (with all its "academic" rigour) to real-lifeproblems. The papers describe the genesis of the models and illustratetheir relevant mathematical characteristics. Among thethemesdealt with are: thermally controlled crystal growth, thermal behaviour of a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp, thesessile-drop problem, etching processes, the batch-coil-annealing process, inverse problems in classical dynamics, image representation and dynamical systems, scintillation inrear projections screens, identification of semiconductorproperties, pattern recognition with neural networks. CONTENTS: H.K. Kuiken: Mathematical Modelling of Industrial Processes.- B. Forte: Inverse Problems in Mathematics for Industry.- S. Busenberg: Case Studies in Industrial Mathematics.