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things almost always arise.
A team of students and researchers working on an Industrial
Problem Solving Workshop problem. The Fields Institute for
Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Spring 2017.
We also try to develop relationships between firms
and individual researchers. Sometimes these arise from
the problem solving workshops mentioned above, where a
workshop problem leads naturally to an ongoing research
project or internship. Sometimes this develops internally, from
one of the start-up firms that Fields incubates. In other cases,
we have a conversation with an outside firm, and then try to
identify a researcher who might be able to help. With the
other Institutes, we are attempting to do this on a national
level through the website solutionscanada.com. We also work
with Mitacs to expedite mathematically oriented internships.
It turns out that many firms can make use of mathematics,
and many mathematicians are interested in doing some work