Joint MSc "MathMods" Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications

MathMods is a 2-year Joint European MSc in Mathematical Modelling in Engineering  and it takes place in 3 universities:

• University of L'Aquila (Italy).
• University of Hamburg (Germany).
• University of Côte d'Azur in Nice (France).

The Consortium can also count on the collaboration with associated academic institutions, and can rely on the effective support of several companies, research institutes, and non-profit organizations in different aspects of the project.

Our MSc programme is aimed at satisfying the need of experts that may be able to apply rigorous mathematical modelling and computational techniques to solve problems in all areas of engineering.

The MathMods programme is entirely taught and conducted in English , and what makes it so special is the dynamic  mobility scheme , which enables our students to spend their postgraduate years in two or even three different European countries . You'll be indeed studying in central Italy for your first semester , then move to Germany for the second term , and finally move again to 1 of our 3 partners for your second year , based on the mobility path you'll be assigned.

Aims

Mathematical modelling lies at the heart of most current technological innovations and has become a fundamental tool in many fields of engineering. Essentially multidisciplinary in its applications, mathematical modelling and simulation is in its own right a key technology that is bound to increase its presence within efficient industries and business innovation departments. The proposed program reflects this multidisciplinarity, drawing on the unifying mathematical aspects from the various and often separate engineering disciplines. This allows the development of an essentially unified methodological approach to modelling and simulation of real engineering challenges.

Mathematical modelling refers to the use of mathematics and related computational tools to bring real-world, challenging, and important socio-economic and industrial problems into a form simple enough so that a good solution can be found in a reasonable time while keeping the relevant features of the problem. Constructing models requires knowledge of enough mathematical theory, methods of solution which are really effective and efficient, computational tools at hand to do it, some knowledge of the field of application, and communicative skills to understand the important elements from experts in that field. Our master's program tries to put together all these elements to produce professionals able to work in different relevant fields with the highest intellectual level and state-of-the-art tools.

Effective modelling and simulation is an art that requires a lot of practice, so that problem solving, project development, and teamwork are aspects that should be highlighted in any training program, as our Consortium knows perfectly. On the other hand, the abstraction behind the specific application is necessary to realize that the same base tools can be applied, with the needed changes, to very different situations in various engineering fields.

Established in 1952 and ideally located in central Italy (L'Aquila being only 110 km away from Rome), our University is a public teaching and research institution offering a full range of academic programmes including biotechnologies, sciences, economics, engineering, education, humanities, medicine, psychology, and sport sciences. With 7 faculties, the University of L'Aquila offers its over 19,000 enrolled students 69 degree courses across the disciplines (both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including international MSc courses entirely taught in English), 9 research doctorate programs, specialization schools, specializing-master courses, and vocational courses. Many members of its distinguished faculty of about 600 professors and researchers have received international recognition and are considered leaders in their fields of research.

Faculties

Our faculties promote, coordinate, and organize research activities for one or more sectors or scientific-disciplinary areas sharing the same objectives or research methodologies and promote, organize and carry out academic teaching within our University. The Faculties of the University of L'Aquila are the following: **Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences | Civil, Construction-Architectural, and Environmental Engineering | Human Studies | Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics | Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics | Life, Health and Environmental Sciences | Physical and Chemical Sciences.

Other research structures

The University of L'Aquila has three centres of excellence (CETEMPS, DEWS, EX-EMERGE) and four research centres (CERFIS, CITRAMS, DMTA, M&MOCS). The University of L'Aquila is also responsible for running the Alpine Botanical Garden situated near the cableway on the Gran Sasso, which extends for 3000 sq metres and conserves plant life from the Gran Sasso, endemic central Apennine plant life, primitive alpine plants, plants originating from the Eastern Balkans and medicinal plants.

Research and teaching in Physics benefit from its associations with the underground nuclear physics Gran Sasso National Laboratory (INFIN - LNGS). There in the 1980s the National Institute for Nuclear Physics built beside the motorway tunnel through the Gran Sasso laboratories, where, protected by 1400 metres of rock, research in astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics and geophysics is carried out.

Professors and researchers of the University of L’Aquila have established links with the Gran Sasso Science Institute , an international PhD school and a center for advanced studies in physics, mathematics, computer science and social sciences located in L’Aquila.