The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre at Maynooth University, named after William Rowan Hamilton, the Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
The Hamilton Institute was established in November 2001 under the first round of funding, 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. From 2001 until 2014 the institute Director was Douglas Leith. From 2015 to 2016 Fiona Lyddy was acting director, with Ken Duffy serving as the Institute's director from 2016-2020. Since 2023, Andrew Parnell has been the director.
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, a €2.5M Systems Biology initiative, the €2.7M Next Generation Internet project, the National Biophotonics Platform and the €2.2M Network Mathematics initiative. The institute was also a partner in the €5.8M SFI funded FAME strategic research cluster announced in 2009. It hosts Maynooth University's students for the SFI Centre for Research Training in Data Analytics and Damien Wood's DNA computing group.
The Hamilton Institute's stated aim is to provide a bridge between mathematics and its applications in ICT and biology. It has organised a number of inter-disciplinary workshops including a series of biannual International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications, (run in 2004, 2006 and 2008) and a series of International Workshops on Systems Biology (in 2006 and 2008). The Hamilton Institute has also hosted workshops such as the International Symposium on Positive Systems (POSTA), the International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM) and the Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference.
The Hamilton Institute robotic soccer team were RoboCup World Champions in 2008, and have regularly fielded Robocup teams since.
See also
- Computer networking, esp. transmission Control Protocol, H-TCP, IEEE 802.11
- Hybrid system, esp. stability theory and Lyapunov stability
- Systems biology
- Machine learning
- User interfaces for mobile phones
External links
References
SFI Press July 2001 Release Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine http://www.sfi.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=227&language_id=1&publication_id=714 ↩
NUI Maynooth July 2001 Press Release http://communications.nuim.ie/press/270701.shtm ↩
NUIM Presidents Report 2008 Academic Review Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine http://www.nuim.ie/publications/presidents/documents/ar_0708_en.pdf ↩
Ken Duffy https://coe.northeastern.edu/people/duffy-kenneth/ ↩
MU to co-lead AI and climate research in new Irish-UK Centre https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/icarus/news/mu-co-lead-ai-and-climate-research-new-irish-uk-centre ↩
List of SFI funded projects in 2004 Archived 2008-11-15 at the Wayback Machine http://www.sfi.ie/uploads/documents/upload/ete1177a.pdf ↩
The Irish Scientist 2006 Archived 2009-06-10 at the Wayback Machine http://www.irishscientist.ie/2006/contents.asp?contentxml=06p72b.xml&contentxsl=is06pages.xsl ↩
Tustin Lecture by Prof. Peter Wellstead[permanent dead link] http://www.sfi.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=753&language_id=1&publication_id=1751 ↩
Enterprise Ireland press 2007 release Archived 2007-11-19 at the Wayback Machine http://www.entemp.ie/press/2007/20070906.htm ↩
National Biophotonics Platform Official Website http://www.nbipireland.ie/ ↩
Network Mathematics Initiative Official Website http://networkmaths.hamilton.ie ↩
Article on Network Mathematics initiative in University Science Archived 2009-08-20 at the Wayback Machine http://www.universityscience.ie/pages/news/2008/june08_Hamilton.php ↩
Article on Network Mathematics initiative in Electric News Archived 2012-08-02 at archive.today http://www.electricnews.net/story/show/10124454 ↩
Mícheál Ó Foghlú's Blog at TSSG http://www.ofoghlu.net/log/2009/02/sfi_strategic_research_cluster.html ↩
http://www.sfi.ie/uploads/documents/upload/08-Feb-25Summary_of_Five_New_SFI_Strategic_Research_Clusters.doc [dead link] http://www.sfi.ie/uploads/documents/upload/08-Feb-25Summary_of_Five_New_SFI_Strategic_Research_Clusters.doc ↩
SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science https://www.data-science.ie ↩
Six SFI centres to receive more than €100m in funding https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/sfi-centre-research-training-postgraduate-science ↩
Damien Woods https://dna.hamilton.ie/woods/ ↩
Official Hamilton Institute web site http://www.hamilton.ie ↩
Electronic Linear Algebra Journal Special Issue http://www.emis.de/journals/ELA/ela-articles/articles/vol12_pp01.ps ↩
International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2004 http://www.hamilton.ie/positive/positive2004/index.html ↩
International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2006 http://www.hamilton.ie/positive/ ↩
International Workshops on Non-negative Matrices & Their Applications 2008 http://www.hamilton.ie/Nonnegative_Matrices_2008/nmw08.html ↩
International Workshops on Systems Biology 2006 Archived 2007-11-18 at the Wayback Machine http://www.hamilton.ie/sysbioworkshop2006 ↩
International Workshops on Systems Biology 2008 http://www.hamilton.ie/systemsbiology/Workshop2008/index.html ↩
POSTA 2012 https://www.hamilton.ie/posta2012/ ↩
Multiple Access Communications 5th International Workshop, MACOM 2012, Maynooth https://tma.ifip.org/2017/ ↩
Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2017 https://tma.ifip.org/2017/ ↩
Robocup Official Website http://www.robocup-cn.org/ ↩
Robocup NUIManoids 2008 team report http://www.tzi.de/spl/pub/Website/Teams2008/NUManoids.pdf ↩