The Director, The director and deputy director of the IMA, and the director of the Minnesota Center for Industrial Mathematics (MCIM) make regular visits to Participating Corporations (PCs) to facilitate the exchange of ideas and problems. Visits to the IMA by corporate researchers are highly encouraged, and visitors have abundant opportunities for contact with relevant academic and industrial mathematicians, scientists, and engineers and access to the IMA's extensive network of scientific talent.

Faculty consultation and student internships are available to PCs through the MCIM. PCs have the opportunity to cosponsor and codirect a postdoctoral researcher through the IMA Industrial Postdoc program. Researchers from PCs may present problems to graduate students, postdocs, and mathematical scientists at the IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminars and/or pose a problem and direct a team of selected graduate students toward its solution in the summer Mathematical Modeling in Industry Workshop.

PCs receive copies of IMA publications, abstracts, newsletters, updates, annual reports, and more.

PCs are kept apprised of all IMA programming to maximize corporate participation in IMA programs, workshops, tutorials, conferences, and seminars. Three-thousand dollars of the corporate contribution is specifically earmarked to support researchers from the PC in IMA programs.

PCs are given early access to IMA planning documents and are represented on the IMA Industrial Advisory Board. They have the opportunity to suggest and cosponsor Hot Topics Workshops on rapidly developing areas of interest to their company or industry.

PCs are publicly acknowledged in numerous ways, including listing on web documents, posters, brochures, and more, generating good will in the mathematical sciences community.