The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre at Maynooth University, named after William Rowan Hamilton, the Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
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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 was 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 won a number of 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 is to provide a bridge between mathematics and its applications in ICT and biology.[19] It has organised a number of inter-disciplinary workshops including a 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.[citation needed]
See also
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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