Hamilton Institute

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

Hamilton Institute
Parent institutionMaynooth University
Established2001
DirectorProf. Ken Duffy
Location
Maynooth
,
Ireland
Coordinates53.3849°N 6.6016°W / 53.3849; -6.6016
Websitehttps://www.hamilton.ie/

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 Prof. Douglas Leith. From 2015 to 2017 Prof. Fiona Lyddy was director and in 2017, Prof. Ken Duffy became the Institute's director.

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,[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 was also a partner in the €5.8M SFI funded FAME strategic research cluster announced in 2009.[12][13] It hosts Maynooth University's students for the SFI Centre for Research Training in Data Analytics[14][15] and Damien Wood's DNA computing group.[16]

The Hamilton Institute's stated aim[17] 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,[18] (run in 2004,[19] 2006[20] and 2008[21]) and a series of International Workshops on Systems Biology (in 2006[22] and 2008[23]). The Hamilton Institute has also hosted workshops such as the International Symposium on Positive Systems (POSTA),[24] the International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM)[25] and the Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference.[26]

The Hamilton Institute robotic soccer team were RoboCup World Champions in 2008,[27][28] and have regularly fielded Robocup teams since.

See also

References
  1. SFI Press July 2001 Release Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. NUI Maynooth July 2001 Press Release
  3. NUIM Presidents Report 2008 Academic Review Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
  4. List of SFI funded projects in 2004 Archived 2008-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
  5. The Irish Scientist 2006 Archived 2009-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Tustin Lecture by Prof. Peter Wellstead
  7. Enterprise Ireland press 2007 release Archived 2007-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
  8. National Biophotonics Platform Official Website
  9. Network Mathematics Initiative Official Website
  10. Article on Network Mathematics initiative in University Science Archived 2009-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Article on Network Mathematics initiative in Electric News Archived 2012-08-02 at Archive.today
  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. SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science
  15. Six SFI centres to receive more than €100m in funding
  16. Damien Woods
  17. Official Hamilton Institute web site
  18. Electronic Linear Algebra Journal Special Issue
  19. International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2004
  20. International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2006
  21. International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2008
  22. International Workshops on Systems Biology 2006 Archived 2007-11-18 at the Wayback Machine
  23. International Workshops on Systems Biology 2008
  24. POSTA 2012
  25. Multiple Access Communications 5th International Workshop, MACOM 2012, Maynooth
  26. Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2017
  27. Robocup Official Website
  28. Robocup NUIManoids 2008 team report
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