Hamilton Institute
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| Parent institution | Maynooth University |
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| Established | 2001 |
| Director | Prof. Ken Duffy |
| Location | , |
| Coordinates | 53°23′06″N 6°36′06″W / 53.3849°N 6.6016°W |
| Website | https://www.hamilton.ie/ |
The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre at Maynooth University, 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 grew to a size to around 45 full-time researchers in 2008.[3] From 2001 until 2014 the institute Director was Douglas Leith. From 2015 to 2016 Fiona Lyddy was acting director,[citation needed] with Ken Duffy serving as the Institute's director from 2016-2020.[4] Since 2023, Andrew Parnell has been the director.[5]
Since its founding, 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,[6] a €2.5M Systems Biology initiative,[7][8] the €2.7M Next Generation Internet project,[9] the National Biophotonics Platform[10] and the €2.2M Network Mathematics initiative.[11][12][13] The institute was also a partner in the €5.8M SFI funded FAME strategic research cluster announced in 2009.[14][15] It hosts Maynooth University's students for the SFI Centre for Research Training in Data Analytics[16][17] and Damien Wood's DNA computing group.[18]
The Hamilton Institute's stated aim[19] 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,[20] (run in 2004,[21] 2006[22] and 2008[23]) and a series of International Workshops on Systems Biology (in 2006[24] and 2008[25]). The Hamilton Institute has also hosted workshops such as the International Symposium on Positive Systems (POSTA),[26] the International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM)[27] and the Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference.[28]
The Hamilton Institute robotic soccer team were RoboCup World Champions in 2008,[29][30] and have regularly fielded Robocup teams since.
See also
[edit]- Computer networking, esp. transmission Control Protocol, H-TCP, IEEE 802.11
- Hybrid system, esp. stability theory and Lyapunov stability
- Systems biology
- Computational physiology
- Machine learning
- User interfaces for mobile phones
References
[edit]- ^ SFI Press July 2001 Release Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ NUI Maynooth July 2001 Press Release
- ^ NUIM Presidents Report 2008 Academic Review Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ken Duffy
- ^ MU to co-lead AI and climate research in new Irish-UK Centre
- ^ List of SFI funded projects in 2004 Archived 2008-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Irish Scientist 2006 Archived 2009-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tustin Lecture by Prof. Peter Wellstead[permanent dead link]
- ^ Enterprise Ireland press 2007 release Archived 2007-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ National Biophotonics Platform Official Website
- ^ Network Mathematics Initiative Official Website
- ^ Article on Network Mathematics initiative in University Science Archived 2009-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Article on Network Mathematics initiative in Electric News Archived 2012-08-02 at archive.today
- ^ Mícheál Ó Foghlú's Blog at TSSG
- ^ http://www.sfi.ie/uploads/documents/upload/08-Feb-25Summary_of_Five_New_SFI_Strategic_Research_Clusters.doc [dead link]
- ^ SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science
- ^ Six SFI centres to receive more than €100m in funding
- ^ Damien Woods
- ^ Official Hamilton Institute web site
- ^ Electronic Linear Algebra Journal Special Issue
- ^ International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2004
- ^ International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2006
- ^ International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2008
- ^ International Workshops on Systems Biology 2006 Archived 2007-11-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ International Workshops on Systems Biology 2008
- ^ POSTA 2012
- ^ Multiple Access Communications 5th International Workshop, MACOM 2012, Maynooth
- ^ Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2017
- ^ Robocup Official Website
- ^ Robocup NUIManoids 2008 team report