Since 2007, the CRM has been organizing Industrial Problem Solving Workshops (IPSW). The participants in these workshops are industrial representatives, academic researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. The participants work in teams; each team studies a problem proposed by a company or public sector institution. The workshop provides companies and institutions with mathematical tools for solving problems, and enable academic researchers in applied mathematics to work on real-world problems. The Montreal IPSWs are sponsored by MITACS and the ncm2 network, and are part of a Canadian tradition, since PIMS and the Fields Institute have been organizing such workshops for several years.