Ian Dangerfield Lectures
The Ian Dangerfield lecture is the Hamilton Institute's annual public talk. The talk typically focuses on applications of mathematics and numerate sciences in different areas and is given by an invited speaker each year.
The talk is named after Ian Dangerfield, who was a student at the institute from 2006-2010. Ian passed away suddenly in 2010 and with the support of Ian's family, the institute has run the talks in Ian's memory.
18 October 2024 "A Periodic Paper Caper", Dr Rachel Quinlan, University of Galway
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Nov 2023 "Alliteration by Numbers", Professor David Stifter, Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University
Oct 2022 "Adventures in the Solar System", Professor Caitriona Jackman, School of Cosmic Physics - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Oct 2021 "The Coronavirus Unveiled: Seeing the Unseen through the Lens of High-Performance Computing Simulations", Dr Elisa Fadda, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry
Oct 2020 "Numbers in the newsroom", Robert Cuffe, BBC News, Head of Statistics
Oct 2019 The Perils (and Potential) of Fitness Tracking Systems, Professor Paul Patras, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Oct 2018 - Nanomaterials for energy and the environment: though they be but little they are fierce,
Professor Serena Corr, Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield
Oct 2017 - It's All a Game,
Dr Tuvana Pastine, Maynooth University Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Oct 2016 - Deep Learning and its exciting impact on computer vision,
Professor Josephine Sullivan, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Sep 2015 - Cybercrime & the internet user: If things are so bad how come they're so good?,
Dr Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research
Sep 2014 - Users can help make the internet greener!,
Professor Saleem Bhatti, School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, UK
Oct 2013 - The story of antibody: A scientific journey from vaccines to blockbuster new therapies,
Professor Phil Hodgkin, Immunology Division, WEHI, Australia
Oct 2012 - Was it a car or a cat I saw: Fixed assumptions and fresh evidence,
Professor Richard Abadi, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK