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| Parent institution | Maynooth University |
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| Established | 2001 |
| Director | Prof. Ken Duffy |
| Location | , |
| Coordinates | 53°23′06″N6°36′06″W / 53.3849°N 6.6016°W /53.3849; -6.6016 |
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| Website | https://www.hamilton.ie/ |
TheHamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre atMaynooth University, named afterWilliam Rowan Hamilton, the Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
The Hamilton Institute was established in November 2001 under the first round of funding,[1][2] byScience Foundation Ireland (SFI). It was officially opened by Bill Harris, SFI Director-General with the inaugural lecture being given byKevin 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 SFICentre for Research Training in Data Analytics[16][17] and Damien Wood'sDNA computing group.[18]
The Hamilton Institute's stated aim is to provide a bridge betweenmathematics and its applications in ICT andbiology.[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 wereRoboCup World Champions in 2008,[29][30] and have regularly fielded Robocup teams since.[citation needed]