The Symposium Organisers are grateful for the enduring and generous support of the Scottish and Norwegian National Academies, The Royal Society of Edinburgh and The Norwegian Academy of Science & Letters respectively, for their core funding of all of the 8 symposia in this series since 2008.

Additional financial sponsorship for the present symposium has been awarded by:

• Crown Estate Scotland, the self-financing public corporation of the Scottish Government responsible for the management of land and property in Scotland owned by the monarch.

• The Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the principal society for the Mathematical Sciences community in Scotland.

• The publishing company MDPI, a publisher of open-access scientific journals, publishing over 390 peer-reviewed, open-access journals including Mathematics (the discipline sponsor of this symposium), the Journal of Marine Science & Engineering and Fluids.

• Marine Alliance for Science & Technology for Scotland (MASTS), a consortium of 20 organisations engaged in marine science and representing the majority of Scotland’s marine research capacity.

This invaluable support is acknowledged with gratitude.