Hamilton Institute

The Hamilton Institute

The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, named after William Rowan Hamilton, arguably Ireland's most distinguished mathematician.

The Hamilton Institute was formally established in November 2001 under the first round of funding,[1][2] by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). It was officially opened by Bill Harris, SFI Director-General with the inaugural lecture being given by Kevin Warwick. Since 2001 the institute has grown in size to around 45 full-time researchers in 2008.[3] From 2001-2014 the institute Director was Prof. Douglas Leith. In 2015, Prof. Ken Duffy became the acting director. In this period the institute has been successful in winning a number of large research grants, in addition to the original seed funding grant from SFI, including the €4.7M National Communications Network Research Centre,[4] a €2.5M Systems Biology initiative,[5][6] the €2.7M Next Generation Internet project,[7] the National Biophotonics Platform[8] and the €2.2M Network Mathematics initiative.[9][10][11] The institute is also a partner in the €5.8M SFI funded FAME strategic research cluster announced in 2009.[12][13] The institute is one of the largest dedicated research institutes (i.e. with its own faculty and research staff) in Ireland.

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The Hamilton Institute's stated aim[14] is to provide a bridge between mathematics and its applications in ICT and biology. It has organised a number of high profile inter-disciplinary workshops including a successful series of biannual International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications,[15] now in its third year (having run in 2004,[16] 2006[17] and 2008[18]) and a series of International Workshops on Systems Biology (in 2006[19] and 2008[20]).

The Hamilton Institute robotic soccer team were Robocup World Champions in 2008,.[21][22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ SFI Press July 2001 Release
  2. ↑ NUI Maynooth July 2001 Press Release
  3. ↑ NUIM Presidents Report 2008 Academic Review
  4. ↑ List of SFI funded projects in 2004
  5. ↑ The Irish Scientist 2006
  6. ↑ Tustin Lecture by Prof. Peter Wellstead
  7. ↑ Enterprise Ireland press 2007 release
  8. ↑ National Biophotonics Platform Official Website
  9. ↑ Network Mathematics Initiative Official Website
  10. ↑ Article on Network Mathematics initiative in University Science
  11. ↑ Article on Network Mathematics initiative in Electric News
  12. ↑ Micheal O'Foghlu's Blog at TSSG
  13. ↑ http://www.sfi.ie/uploads/documents/upload/08-Feb-25Summary_of_Five_New_SFI_Strategic_Research_Clusters.doc
  14. ↑ Official Hamilton Institute web site
  15. ↑ Electronic Linear Algebra Journal Special Issue
  16. ↑ International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2004
  17. ↑ International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2006
  18. ↑ International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2008
  19. ↑ International Workshops on Systems Biology 2006
  20. ↑ International Workshops on Systems Biology 2008
  21. ↑ Robocup Official Website
  22. ↑ Robocup NUIManoids 2008 team report

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