This book presents the state of the art in applied and industrial mathematics, updating the earlier Kluwer publication Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Venice-1, 1989. The current work includes a selection of main invited papers as well as conference contributions from a number of leading scientists working in the areas of applied mathematics, industrial mathematics applied analysis, numerical mathematics, mathematical physics and applied probability. Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced graduate students whose work involves mathematical modelling and industrial mathematics, numerics and computation, mathematics of science, mathematical physics, mathematical analysis in general and partial differential equations in particular.