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Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium
A new study by scientists from Ireland, Britain and Germany has found that the Gulf Stream System, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is at its weakest in over a millennium.
Date: Friday, 26 February 2021
Long-term damage caused by severe infection could be reduced or partially reversed - new research published by Nature Cell Biology
Research sheds light on how severe infections like malaria cause short and long-term damage to blood cells but some damage could be reversed. Discovery could lead to new ways of preventing long-term damage from severe infections including Covid-19 and TB
Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2020
MU Hamilton Institute's COVID-19 grant
MU Hamilton Institute awarded SFI funding to meet challenges of Covid-19 pandemic
Date: Monday, 22 June 2020
Sea-level rise of more than 1 metre by 2100 if emission targets not met - Maynooth University collaborates on major international study
Sea-level rise of more than 1 metre by 2100 if emission targets not met - Maynooth University collaborates on major international study
Date: Monday, 11 May 2020
Andrea Goldsmith, entrepreneur and leader in wireless communications, appointed dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University
Professor Andrea Goldsmith from Stanford, who is on our advisory board, has been announced as the new dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University effective Sept. 1.
Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Extreme temperature events in Dublin up 20% in eight years
Professor Andrew Parnell of the Hamilton Institute recently had a paper published in the journal Environmetrics which characterises extreme temperature events in Dublin over the last 40 years. Working with collaborators in UCD and Met Eireann they were able to use a mathematical framework called Extreme Value Theory which enables them to estimate how often extreme temperature events occurred during the period 1981 to 2010. They then compared their findings with the period 2011to 2018 and discovered a surprising rise in the number of extreme temperature events. They next plan to expand out their work to enable a complete picture of extremes across the entire Island of Ireland.
Date: Friday, 20 March 2020
2020 SFI CRT in Foundations of Data Science doctoral scholarships applications open until 9th March
Admissions for four year doctoral scholarships in the SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science starting in September 2020 are currently open.
Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
Was the leaving Cert harder in the old days?
What sort of so-called modern maths exam lacks matrices, calculus and complex numbers? Dr David Malone, a mathematician at Maynooth University, noticed the question posed by a friend on Twitter and he wondered: has our maths education been dumbed down?
Date: Tuesday, 05 November 2019
Inaugural meeting of the EU Training Network in Quantitative T cell immunology and immunotherapy (QuanTII)
Inaugural meeting of the EU Training Network in Quantitative T cell immunology and immunotherapy (QuanTII)
Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019