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    Hamilton Institute Seminar Series

    Speaker: TBA

    Title: TBA

    Date: TBA

    Time: 1pm Ireland

    In-person: Hamilton Institute Seminar room (317), 3rd Floor Eolas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University

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    2022

    Recent:
    May 25
    , Dr Marco Cognetti, Maynooth University.  "Planning, perception and control for mobile robots"

    May 18, Professor Josephine Sullivan, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.  "Are All the Linear Regions of a ReLU Network Created Equal?"

    May 11, Dr Mimi Zhang, Trinity College Dublin.  "Reinforced EM Algorithm through Clever Initialization for Clustering with Gaussian Mixture Models"

    May 4, Dr Niall Murphy, Equal1 Labs.  "Noisy, Broad & Short: quantum computing at 3.5K"

    Apr 13, Dr Tom Ouldridge, Imperial College London.  "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Catalytic Information Processing"

    Apr 6, Hamilton Institute and Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research seminar: Professor Cathal Seoighe, National University of Ireland Galway.  "The contribution of immunoediting to the profile of somatic mutations observed in human cancers"

    Mar 30, Professor Huiru (Jane) Zheng, Ulster University.  "Network-based approaches to biological data analysis"

    Mar 23, Professor Arman Sabbaghi, Purdue University.  "A Closed-Loop Machine Learning and Compensation Framework for Geometric Accuracy Control of 3D Printed Products"

    Mar 9, Professor Brendan Murphy, University College Dublin.  "Asymptopia: Living in a world of large data"

    Mar 2, Hamilton Institute and Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research seminar: Professor Des Higgins,  University College Dublin.  "Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms over the past 30 years"

    Feb 23, Professor David Doty, University of California, Davis.  "Time-optimal self-stabilizing leader election in population protocols"

    Feb 16, Professor Damien Thompson, University of Limerick.  "Embedding electronic function in self-assembled nanostructures"

    Feb 9, Dr Jonathan Byrne, Intel.  "The Intel Process and Industrial Data Analytics"

    Feb 2, Professor Rebecca Schulman, Johns Hopkins University.  "Self-assembly of active circuits"

    Abstracts available in Events Archive
     

    2021

    MIT CINCS (Communications Information Networks Circuits and Signals) / Hamilton Institute Seminar

    Dec 8, Professor Emanuel Popovici, University College Cork.  "Towards a Universal Stethoscope"

    Dec 1, Dr George Adams, Imperial College London.  "Application of deep learning and spatial statistics within 3D microscopy"

    Nov 17, Professor Tess Smidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  "Neural Networks with Euclidean Symmetry for Physical Sciences"

    Oct 27, Professor Venugopal V. Veeravalli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  "Quickest Change Detection for Monitoring Pandemics" (Joint work with Yuchen Liang)

    Oct 20, Professor Paul Patras , University of Edinburgh.  "Making Sense of Mobile Network Traffic using Deep Learning"

    Oct 13, Professor Lalitha Sankar, Arizona State University. "Alpha-loss: A Tunable Class of Loss Functions for Robust Learning"

    Oct 6, Dr Hazel Murray, Munster Technological University.  "A journey in authentication security"

    MIT-Harvard CINCS (Communications Information Networks Circuits and Signals) / Hamilton Institute Seminar

    May 26, Professor Katie Wilson, Santa Clara University.  "Sometimes Less is More: Guessing one's way to reduced blockage"

    May 19, Professor Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania.  "Learning Optimal Resource Allocations in Wireless Communication Systems" 

    May 12, Professor Edward Curry, National University of Ireland Galway.  "From Data Platforms to Dataspaces: Enabling Data Ecosystems for Intelligent Systems"

    May 5, Professor Simon Cotton, Queen's University Belfast.  "Modelling Composite Fading in Wireless Channels"

    Apr 28, Professor Ayalvadi Ganesh, University of Bristol.  "Broadcasting in random graphs"

    Apr 21, Professor Subhra Dey, Maynooth University.  "A Tale of Heavy Tails: Kalman Filtering with information loss"

    Apr 19, ALL-Hamilton Seminar: Professor Tony Belpaeme, Ghent University and the University of Plymouth.  "Social robots: the ultimate test for AI and robotics"

    Apr 14, Professor Raquel Hill, Spelman College.  "Detecting BGP Routing Anomalies"

    Apr 7, Dr Leïla Perié, Curie Institute.  "A quantitative gaze at blood cell production"

    Mar 31, Professor Ali Jadbabaie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  "Persuasion, new sharing and spread of (mis)information on social networks"

    Mar 24, Dr Nadia Fawaz, Pinterest.  "Inclusive Search and Recommendations​"

    Mar 10, Professor Rachel Cummings, Columbia University.  "I need a better description": An Investigation Into User Expectations For Differential Privacy

    Mar 3, Professor R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  "Sample Complexity and Overparameterization Bounds for Neural Temporal Difference Learning"

    Feb 24, Professor Cristopher Moore, Santa Fe Institute.  "Complexity, Phase Transitions, and Inference"

    Feb 17, Professor James Gleeson, University of Limerick.  "Branching processes as models of cascade dynamics on networks"

    Abstracts available in Events Archive

    2020

    MIT-Harvard CINCS (Communications Information Networks Circuits and Signals) / Hamilton Institute Seminar

    Dec 9, Professor Christina Fragouli, UCLA.  "Gaussian mmWave Networks and Group Testing"

    Dec 2, Professor Manolis Kellis, MIT.  "From genomics to therapeutics: single-cell dissection and manipulation of disease circuitry"

    Nov 25, Professor Rozenn Dahyot, Trinity College Dublin.  "AI Design, deployment & applications for  Digital Twins & Sustainability"

    Nov 18, Professor Tara Javidi, UCSD.  "Black-box Zeroth Order Optimization (in Theory and in Practice)"

    Nov 11, Professor Sean Meyn, University of Florida.  "Accelerating Optimization and Reinforcement Learning with Quasi-Stochastic Approximation"

    Nov 4, Professor Todd P. Coleman, UCSD.  "Electrical Digestive Engineering"

    Oct 28, Professor Elza Erkip, NYU.  "A Communications Perspective on Graph Matching"

    Oct 21, Professor Damien Woods, Maynooth University.  "21 molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly"

    Oct 14, Professor Vivienne Sze, MIT.  "Efficient Computing for AI and Robotics"

    Oct 7, Prof. Warren J. Gross, McGill University.  "Stochastic Computing for Machine Learning towards an Intelligent Edge"

    Sep 30, Prof. Soheil Feizi, University of Maryland, College Park.  "When Does Deep Learning Succeed (and Fail)? Robustness, Interpretability and Fairness in Deep Learning"

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    Hamilton Institute Seminars

    Jul 1, Dr Juan Arismendi Zambrano, Maynooth University Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting.  "Federal Reserve Communications Sentiment's Impact on Target Rate Discovery"

    Jun 24, Prof Manya Ghobadi, CSAIL, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.  "The Impact of COVID-19 on a Large-scale Backbone Network"  (MIT CINCS / Hamilton Institute Seminar).

    Jun 10, Dr Horacio González-Vélez, School of Computing, National College of Ireland.  "Beyond Fast and Furious: Smart approaches to data-intensive parallel programming for the physical and life sciences"

    Apr 29, Prof Michaël Rao, ENS Lyon, France.  "Pentagons tiling the plane"

    Mar 11, Dr Mingming Liu, School of Electronic Engineering, DCU.  "Decentralized Optimization Algorithms with Applications to Smart Grids and Intelligent Transportation Systems"

    Mar 4, Prof Natalie Shlomo, University of Manchester, UK.  "Statistical Disclosure and Differential Privacy"

    Feb 26, Dr Edgar Galvan, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.  "Semantics in Machine Learning Genetic Programming"

    Feb 13, Professor Dominique Mery, INRIA, LORIA and Universite de Lorraine, France.  "Formal Development of Multi-Purpose Interactive Application (MPIA) for ARINC 661"  (Joint Hamilton Institute/Computer Science Department Seminar).

    Feb 12, Dr Constantine Evans, Hamilton Institute.  "Pattern recognition in the nucleation kinetics of self-assembly"

    Feb 5, Dr Nema Dean, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Scotland.  "Spatio-temporal modelling of respiratory disease risk with changing spatial boundaries"

    Jan 29, Dr Arman Farhang, Maynooth University Department of Electronic Engineering.  "New Waveforms: Enablers for Future Multi-Service Communication Networks"

    Jan 22, Dr Norma Bargary, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick.  "Surviving Risky Statistics: Perceptions of Health Risk and Risk Communication"

    Jan 15, Prof Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, UAB, Barcelona, Spain.  "Some balance disclosure and availability attacks on the Lightning Network"

    Jan 8, Prof Janine Illian, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Scotland.  "In a world of many processes — what’s the point?"

    Abstracts available in Events Archive

    2019

    Dec 18, Prof Andrea Ugolini, Department of Quantitative Analysis, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil.  "Network connectedness of green bonds and asset classes."

    Dec 11, Prof Jonathan Tawn, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, UK.  "Multivariate Extremes: different routes to extrapolation."

    Nov 27, Dr Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology.  "Bacterial Molecular Communications and Future Applications."

    Nov 20, Dr Valeria Nico, Stokes Laboratories, University of Limerick.  "Nonlinear vibrational energy harvesting for battery-free industrial Internet of Things applications."

    Nov 11, Prof Nicolas Schabanel, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, France.  "Simple Intrinsic Cellular Automata simulation in the Oritatami Co-Transcriptional Molecular Folding Model."

    Oct 30, Prof Tomoharu Nakashima, Graduate School of Humanities and Sustainable System Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan.  "Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Elderly Monitoring and RoboCup Soccer."

    Oct 17, Dr Seva Shneer, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.  "Utility-maximising properties of some service-rates allocations in wireless communication networks."

    Oct 9, Dr Klara Stokes, Maynooth University Department of Electronic Engineering.  "Voltages, flows, divisors and specials points on (network) graphs."

    Oct 2, Dr Niamh Cahill, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics and Statistics.  "Bayesian Modelling Approaches for Family Planning Indicators."

    Jun 11, Prof Matthew Patitz, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, USA.  "Shaping Self-Assembly: How Tile Shapes Effect Powers of Self-Assembling Systems."

    May 22, Prof Flavio du Pin Calmon, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA.  "On representations and fairness: a few information-theoretic tools for machine learning."

    May 8, Prof David Doty, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, USA.  "Digging (energy) wells for unknown substances: Programming substrate-independent energy barriers in catalytic chemical reactions."

    May 7, Dr John Butler, School of Mathematical Sciences, Technological University Dublin.  "Virtual Reality and Neuroimaging to Investigate the Neuronal Process while Walking."

    May 1, Prof Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK.  "Finding Complex Structure in Discrete Time Series."

    Apr 24, Prof Claire Gormley, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UCD.  "Infinite mixtures of infinite factor analysers: a model-based approach to clustering high dimensional data."

    Apr 9, Prof George Iosifidis, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.  "The Black Box of Cooperative Networks."

    Mar 29, Dr Cristina Lo Celso, Imperial College London, UK.  "Healthy and malignant haematopoiesis in the bone marrow: dynamic cells in an evolving environment." (Joint Hamilton Institute / Human Health Institute Seminar).

    Apr 3, Prof Madeleine Lowery, UCD.  "Rhythms of the brain : Computational modelling of deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease." (Joint Hamilton Institute / Human Health Institute Seminar).

    Mar 21, Prof Subhra Dey, Hamilton Institute / Maynooth University Department of Electronic Engineering.  "Remote estimation over lossy channels in the presence of an eavesdropper."

    Mar 13, Prof Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA.  "Preserving Privacy through Processing Encrypted Data."

    Mar 6, Prof Vicenç Torra, Hamilton Institute / Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.  "Non-additive measures and integrals."

    Feb 27, Prof Nial Friel, UCD.  "Informed sub-sampling MCMC: Approximate Bayesian inference for large datasets."

    Feb 20, Dr Pierre-Étienne Meunier, Hamilton Institute / Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.  "Using category theory to solve version control."

    Feb 13, Prof Vicenç Torra, Hamilton Institute / Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.  "On data privacy for machine learning."

    Feb 6, Alexis Mérigaud, Maynooth University Department of Electronic Engineering.  "Real-time forecasting of ocean waves: a statistical perspective."

    Jan 29, Prof Steve Kirkland, University of Manitoba, Canada.  "Kemeny’s Constant for Markov Chains."

    Abstracts available on our Events Archive page.

    2018

    2018 Seminars:

    Dec 12, "Visual SLAM: from Sparse Mapping to Dense Perception",
    Dr John McDonald, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.

    Dec 5, "An Introduction to Bayesian Additive Regression Trees",
    Prof. Andrew Parnell, Hamilton Institute / Maynooth University Department of Maths & Stats.

    Nov 28, "Advances in Atomic Force Microscopy: From Atoms to Cells and Beyond",
    Dr Jason Kilpatrick, UCD.

    Nov 14, "The self-assembly of proteins",
    Dr Jennifer McManus, Head of Department, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry.

    Nov 7, "Endless Data",
    Dr Jonathan Dunne, IBM Ireland.

    Oct 24, "Noncooperative self-assembly",
    Dr Pierre-Étienne Meunier, Hamilton Institute / Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.

    Oct 11, "Bringing Galois to the Internet - a personal account of combining theory and practice",
    Professor Muriel Médard, Cecil H. Green Professor of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Jun 6, "Is Politics 1, 2 or 3 Dimensional?",
    Mr. Adam Tallon, Maynooth University Department of Theoretical Physics.

    Mar 21, "Application of Raman microspectroscopy & digital holographic microscopy to cytology​",
    Dr Brian Hennelly, Maynooth University Departments of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.

    Mar 14, "Research in empirical finance",
    Dr Juan Carlos Arismendi Zambrano, Maynooth University Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting.

    Feb 21, "Towards multilingual aspect orientated sentiment analyses of financial microblogs!​",
    Dr Brian Davis, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.

    Further information can be found on our Events Archive page.

    2017

    2017 Seminars:

    Dec 13, "The road to digital health: leveraging ICT to address health challenges", 
    Prof. Tomás Ward, Maynooth University Department of Electronic Engineering.

    Nov 28, "Bandits defending borders",
    Prof. David Leslie, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, UK.

    Oct 24, "Criticality and Pathology in the Brain​", 
    Prof. Barak Pearlmutter, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.

    Sept 28, "Bayesian Additive Regression Trees: Bridging Machine Learning and Statistics",
    Prof. Andrew Parnell, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin.

    Sept 22, "Introduction to Compressive Random Access for Machine-Type Communications",
    Prof. Jinho Choi, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Republic of Korea.

    Sept 11, "Synthetic Biology and Systems Medicine: from cancer immunotherapy to respiratory systems engineering",
    Prof. Declan G. Bates, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK.

    Aug 16, "The Ribosome Flow Model: Theory and Applications​",
    Prof. Michael Margaliot, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

    June 20, "Every T cell counts! The calculus of T cell immunity​", 
    Dr Julia Marchingo, University of Dundee, Scotland.

    Mar 16, "Censored Markov Chains - a Powerful Tool in Probability Theory and its Applications",
    Prof. Isaac Sonin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

    Further information can be found on our Events Archive page.

    2016

    Oct 6, IBM Recruitment Talk, Wendy Belluomini, Director, IBM Research.

    2015

    May 18, "The impact of observation and action errors on informational cascades", Prof Vijay Subramanian, EECS, University of Michigan, USA.

    2014

    Date Title Speaker
    Sept 26 Design considerations for extremely high frequency wireless networks Prof. Joerg Widmer IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain
    May 19 Random-access networks: slow transitions, slow mixing & long delays Alessandro Zocca, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
    Apr 23 Noninterference analysis of delegation subterfuge in distributed authorization systems Dr Simon Foley, UCC
    Mar 24 Bayesian approaches to health decision science Prof. Cathal Walsh, TCD
    Mar 19 Modelling adoption behaviour in the face of multiple choices Prof. James Gleeson, MACSI, University of Limerick
    Mar 6 Differentially private mechanisms for data release Prof. Graham Cormode, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
    Mar 5 A view into the biomolecular world through the computational lens: why and how we run molecular simulations Dr Elisa Fadda, Department of Chemistry, NUIM

    2013

    Date Title Speaker
    Nov 27 Stochastic modelling and immunology: How many populations? How many cells? how many encounters? Dr Grant Lythe, Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
    Nov 22 Joint seminar with the Department of Biology, NUIM
    From single B cells to the population level in vitro and in vivo: development of quantitative systems to screen therapeutics for manipulation of the antibody response
    Dr Edwin Hawkins, Imperial College London
    Oct 14 Counting euler tours of directed and undirected graphs Dr Mary Cryan, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
    Oct 10 Polar codes in communication networks
     
    Dr Mohammad Karzand, Hamilton Institute
    Aug 7 Periodicity of matrix powers in max algebra
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
     
    Dr Sergei Sergeev, University of Birmingham
    Jul 30 Information theory, security and privacy Flavio du Pin Calmon, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
    Jul 5 Very high speed networking in VMs and bare metal
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Luigi Rizzo, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa
    Apr 5 Beyond LTE networks: Massive (MIMO) or small (cells) Prof. Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France
    Apr 2 How machine learning is central to Facebook Dr Joaquin Quinonero Candela, Facebook
    Mar 21 ROMA: Random overlook mastering ATFM
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
     
    Carlo Lancia, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata & TU/e
    Feb 22 The changing face of adaptive control: The use of multiple models Prof. Kumpati Narendra, Yale University
    Feb 7 Efficiency and the redistribution of welfare Prof. Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
    Jan 30 Contributions to the analysis of biochemical reaction-diffusion networks: Stability, analysis and numerical solutions Fernando LopezCaamal, Hamilton Institute
    Jan 21 Machine-to-Machine in smart cities & smart grids vision, technologies & applications
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Barcelona
     
    Jan 21 Building Your Company First-Hand Account What Not To Do Dr Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Barcelona

    2012

    Date Title Speaker
    Nov 29 State constrained optimal control
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Richard Vinter, Imperial College London
    Nov 28 Effective information delivery through opportunistic replication in wireless networks
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, Greece
    Nov 22 Dynamics of Some Cholera Models
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Pauline van den Driessche, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
    Oct 10 Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling: A Control Theoretic Approach
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Albert Banchs, University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
    Oct 5 Large-scale urban vehicular networks: mobility and connectivity
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon
    Sep 28 Autonomous systems, uncertainty and feedback Dr Alexander Lanzon, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
    Sep 27 Learning cell cycle variability at the level of each phase
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Tom Weber, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal
    Sep 17 EPT functions: Non-negativity analysis, levy processes and financial applications
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Bernard Hanzon, UCC
    Sep 12 Playing with standards: The IEEE 802.11 case
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Francesco Gringoli, University of Brescia
    Aug 29 In search of optimality: Network coding for wireless networks
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Mohammad Chaudhry, Hamilton Institute
    Aug 3 On continuous counting and learning in a distributed system
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
    Jul 31 Multi-channel MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Cristina Cano, Hamilton Institute
    Jul 10 Networking infrastructure and data management for cyber-physical systems
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Song Han, University of Texas at Austin
    Jun 13 Stochastic models for random-access wireless networks Dr Peter van de Ven, IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab, New Jersey, USA
    Jun 11 Cracking the cutoff window
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Carlo Lancia, University of Roma Tor Vergata
    May 28 Reaching consensus about gossip
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Patrick Thiran, Faculté Informatique et Communications, EPFL Lausanne
    May 9 The role of Kemeny's constant in properties of markov chains
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Jeffrey J Hunter, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
    Apr 23 Experiences in industrial mathematics in Ireland
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Stephen O'Brien, University of Limerick
    Mar 21 Geographically weighted regression: Modelling spatial heterogeneity
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Martin Charlton, National Centre for Geocomputation, NUIM
    Mar 14 Cascade dynamics on complex networks
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Adam Hackett, Hamilton Institute
    Mar 8 Privacy challenges and solutions for medical data sharing Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, IBM Research-Zurich
    Mar 1 Exploit prediction to handle mobility in wireless ad hoc networks
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Xu Li, Inria Lille
    Feb 8 CHAOSNETS: Building scalable, secure, and reliable "chaotic" wireless networks Dr Kyle Jamieson, Department of Computer Science, University College London
    Feb 1 Juggler's exclusion process
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Lasse Leskela, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
    Jan 19 Exploratory analysis of human mobility and activities from geo-referenced communication data streams
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Alexei Pozdnoukhov, National Centre for Geocomputation, NUIM

    2011

    Date Title Speaker
    Nov 23 A stochastic T-cell response criterion Prof. Carmen Molina-Paris, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
    Oct 17 From nonnegative matrices to nonnegative tensors
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Shmuel Friedland, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Dep., University of Illinois
     
    Oct 17 Maximal exponents of polyhedral cones
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Raphael Loewy, Department of Mathematics, Technion, Israel
    Oct 17 Some relationships between formal power series and nonnegative matrices
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Thomas J. Laffey, School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin
    Oct 17 Essentially negative news about positive systems
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Patrizio Colaneri, Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
    Oct 17 On the block numerical range of operators in banach spaces 
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Karl-Heinz Förster, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin
    Oct 17 The symmetric nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem 
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr. Helena Šmigoc, School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin
    Oct 17 Load balancing for Markov chains 
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Steve Kirkland, Hamilton Institute
    Oct 17 Diagonal stability and completely positive matrices 
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Abraham Berman, Technion
    Oct 5 Cluster analysis in educational testing  Dr Nema Dean, University of Glasgow
    Sep 14 An evolutionary theory to bind together our molecular, cellular and systems based understanding of the immune response Prof. Phil Hodgkin, Immunology Division, WEHI, Australia
    Aug 11 Fundamental delay bounds in peer-to-peer chunk-based real-time streaming systems
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Giuseppe Bianchi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Universita degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata
    Aug 9 Humanoid robot soccer 101 (Keynote lecture from the Half‐day workshop on Autonomous Robotics)
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr. Thomas Röfer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bremen, Germany
    Aug 9 Robot navigation and mapping (Keynote lecture from the Half‐day workshop on Autonomous Robotics)
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. John Leonard, MIT Dep. of Mechanical Engineering and MIT CSAIL
    May 5 Lifecycle of HIV-infected cells
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Janka Petravic, University of New South Wales
    Mar 23 Advances in non-linear distortion methods of synthesis and processing of musical signals
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Victor Lazzarini, Music Department, NUIM
    Feb 23 Programming stem cells: modeling stem cell dynamics and organ development
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Yaakov Setty, Weizmann Institute, Israel

     

    Feb 18 Vehicle-2-x communication
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Ilja Radusch, ASCT, Fraunhofer FOKUS

    2010

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 15 Event-driven automation in laser-scanning microscopy applied to live cell imaging
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Jakub Wenus, Hamilton Institute
    Dec 8 Automated segmentation of speech signals using dynamic programming principles Darren Kavanagh, Hamilton Institute
    Nov 29 Markov chains, directed graphs, and the Kemeny constant Prof. Steve Kirkland, Hamilton Institute
    Oct 7 Pólya problem on the conversion between determinant and permanent  Prof. Alexander Guterman, Moscow State University
    Sep 1 Decision-making under statistical uncertainty Dr Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, University of Illinois
    Jul 15 Spectrum sharing in cognitive radio with quantized channel information
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Subhrakanti Dey, Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
    Jun 1 How does the brain go from sound to meaning? Steven Greenberg, Silicon Speech, Santa Venetia, CA USA
    May 24 Computational analysis of dynamic networks (and its applications to the social life of zebras) Dr Tanya Berger-Wolf, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Apr 14 The National Digital Research Centre: Overview, new call for proposals and some potential topics for proposals Amy Neale & Kevin Smith, The National Digital Research Centre
    Apr 8 Systems analysis of cellular networks under uncertainty Prof. Joerg Stelling, Dept. of Biosystems Science & Engineering, ETH Zurich
    Mar 24 Large deviation theory and its applications in statistical mechanics
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Hugo Touchette, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
    Mar 3 Asymptotic stability region of slotted aloha
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Charles Bordenave, Institut de Mathematiques, Universite de Toulouse
    Feb 19 On the stabilization of discrete-time positive switched systems by means of Lyapunov based switching strategies
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Maria Elena Valcher, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universita' di Padova
    Feb 10 Combining pharmacology and mutational dynamics to understand and combat drug resistance in HIV Dr Max von Kleist, Hamilton Institute

    2009

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 9 A phylogenetic hidden Markov model for immune epitope discovery
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Cathal Seoighe, Mathematics Department, National University of Ireland, Galway
    Nov 18 Stochastic modelling of T cell repertoire diversity
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Carmen Molina-Paris, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
    Nov 4 Game theory and cognitive networks: Application to distributed spectrum sharing Prof. Luiz A. DaSilva, Trinity College Dublin
    Oct 19 Mathematical challenges in the electronics industry Dr Joost Rommes & Dr Wil Hendrikus Schilders, NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    Oct 14 Slotted versus non-slotted CSMA: Throughputs and fairness Dr Vsevolod Shneer, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Eindhoven
    Oct 1 Separation principles and controller realization for linear switching and LPV system Prof. Franco Blanchini, University of Udine, Italy
    Sep 30 The brain is an embedding machine
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Richard Clement, UK
    Sep 17 From idea to product: best practices for improving the impact of product development in large organistations
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Njal Pettit, Danfoss Business System, Danfoss, Denmark
    Sep 11 Multivariable zero-free transfer functions and spectra, and their application in economic modelling Prof. Brian D. O. Anderson, Research School of Info Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University
    Sep  7 Control and information architectures for formations Prof. Brian D. O. Anderson, Research School of Info Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University
    Aug 26 On the design of doubly-generalized low-density parity-check codes
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Mark Flanagan, UCD
    Aug 19 Bounds on the achievable performance of control systems subject data-rate constraints Dr Eduardo I. Silva, Departamento de Electronica, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile
    Aug 17 Asymptotic properties of Volterra equations
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Ernesto Castellanos Velasco, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
    Jul 28 Conformation dynamics in computational drug design Prof. Peter Deuflhard, Zuse Institute Berlin
    Jul 24 Linear-programming decoding of nonbinary linear codes Dr Vitaly Skachek, Claude Shannon Institute, UCD
    Jul 21 Dwell time analysis of deterministic and stochastic switched systems Prof. Patrizio Colaneri, Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
    Jul 15 Can't move to the rhythm? Inappropriate neuronal synchrony and oscillations in Parkinson’s disease Dr Peter J. Magill, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford, UK
    Jul 10 Theoretical aspects of period control systems: an application to the Belgian chocolate problem Prof. Patrizio Colaneri, Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
    Jun 25 On fair coexistence of wireless networks via CSMA based transmission algorithms
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Murat Alanyali, Boston University
    Jun 17 A systems biology approach to apoptosis signalling Dr Eric Bullinger Institut Montefiore, Universite de Liege
    Jun 11 How to understand the cell by breaking it - computational inference of cellular networks from gene perturbation screens
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute
    May 6 Multivariate time series analysis in neurology
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Bjoern Schelter, Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling, University of Freiburg
    Apr 29 Probabilistic interaction networks
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    Dr Rudolf Kulhavy, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
    Apr 22 Counting and sampling contingency tables
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Mary Cryan, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
    Mar 12 Value of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modelling for tumour patients Prof. Charlotte Kloft, Institute of Pharmacy, Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy, Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg
    Mar 10 Model-based functional brain imaging and the neurobiological basis of human reinforcement-learning Prof. John O'Doherty, TCD
    Mar 4 Analysis of dynamical systems with steep sigmoidal response functions Prof. Erik Plathe, CIGENE, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
    Mar 2 Decision analysis of merchant transmission investment Prof. Chen-Ching Liu, School of Electrical, Electronic & Mechanical Eng, UCD
    Feb 20 ClubADSL: Enhancing bandwidth aggregation in your neighborhood
    ​Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Domenico Giustiniano Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain
    Feb 2 How I broke AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)---if I did it
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Dr Warren D. Smith, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
    Jan 28 Kinetic modelling of metabolism Prof. David Fell, School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
    Jan 21 Extracellular potassium dynamics and pileptogenesis Prof. Maxim Bazhenov, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside
    Jan 14 Modelling the synapse: From numbers to networks Prof. Eduardo Mendoza, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
    Jan 7 Robust stabilization by linear output feedback Dr Markus Mueller, Faculty of Mathematics & Natural Sciences, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau

    2008

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 10 Exploring multistability in biochemical networks Dr Antonio A. Alonso GEPRO (Grupo Enxeñería de Procesos) IIM-CSIC, Vigo, Galiza, Spain
    Nov 12 Exploring hallucinatory percepts Prof. Richard Abadi, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
    Oct 28 High performance computing projects in SCI-SYM Ray Walshe Assoc. Director, SCI-SYM Dublin City University
    Oct 21 Experimental certification of jet engine controllers Prof. Robert Bitmead, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
    Oct 13 Router buffer sizing revisited: The role of the output/input capacity ratio
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Constantine Dovrolis, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
    Oct 8 Towards autonomous vehicles in urban domains Dr Michael Quinlan, Learning Agents Research Group, University of Texas, Austin
    Sep 24 Spatial mapping of the earth beneath the ocean - systems of a different kind Dr Peter Simpkin, IKB Technologies, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Jun 25 Global analysis and synthesis of networks of oscillators: a dissipativity approach Dr Guy-Bart STAN Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Control Group
    May 23 Patchy solutions of Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations
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    Prof. Arthur Krener, UC Davis
    May 19 Passivity-based stability analysis and applications to biochemical reaction networks
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. Murat Arcak, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Dept., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
    May 15 Input-to-state stability of differential inclusions with application to hysteretic feedback systems
    Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small)
    Prof. E.P. Ryan, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath
    May 14 An integrative computational model of colorectal carcinogenesis Ingeborg van Leeuwen Surgery and Molecular Oncology, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee
    May 8 IEEE distinguished lecture Prof. Daniel Yeung IEEE SMCS President
    May 7 Identification and feedback control in deep brain stimulation: A simulation study Prof. Luigi Glielmo Universita del Sannio, Benevento, Italy
    Apr 30 Stability, passivity and model reduction for differential-algebraic equations Tatjana Stykel, TU Berlin
    Apr 22 Optimization and optimality in systems biology Dr Julio R. Banga, IIM-CSIC, Vigo, Spain
    Apr 16 Dark energy, vacuum fluctuations, and microscopic irreversibility Prof. Michael C. Mackey, Ph.D. FRSC, Joseph Morley Drake Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology & Medicine, McGill University
    Apr 8 Structural modelling of the whole head for electrical impedance imaging and deep brain stimulation Prof. Richard Bayford, Middlesex University and Imperial College
    Mar 13 Impact of network models on stability analysis: Or How much would you *like* 2+2 to equal? Dr Lachlan Andrew, Dept. of Computer Science, Caltech
    Mar 12 Using optimal control theory to design sustainable harvesting policies for renewable resources Stephen Duncan, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University
    Mar 7 Random multiple access organization in telecommunication systems with large user population Dr Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia
    Feb 29 High density 802.11 mesh networks: Management principles Prof. Sumit Roy, Fundamentals of Networking Lab, University of Washington
    Feb 27 Feasible depth: A computable characterization of useful information Dr. Philippe Moser, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth
    Feb 20 Information flows in cooperative networked control systems Dr. Girish Nair, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
    Feb 6 Integrated stoichiometric, thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of steady state metabolism Ronan M.T. Fleming, Dept. Biochemistry, NUIG & Visiting scholar, Palsson Systems Biology Research Group, UCSD
    Jan 30 The Nash certainty equivalence principle in large population stochastic control: Connections to statistical mechanics, biology and economics Peter E. Caines McGill University, Montreal, and TUB, Berlin

    2007

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 5 Costas arrays Konstantinos Drakakis, School of Mathematical Sciences, UCD & Claude Shannon Institute 
    Dec 4 Translating thoughts into actions by finding patterns in brainwaves Prof. Charles Anderson, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University
    Nov 21 Linguistic scene analysis and the importance of synergy Steven Greenberg, Silicon Speech & Technical University of Denmark & University of California, Berkeley
    Nov 14 Seeing more than meets the eye Prof. Richard Abadi, University of Manchester, UK
    Oct 10 Performance limitations in formation control of autonomous vehicles with limited communications Prof. Rick Middleton Hamilton Institute, NUIM
    Oct 3 Mathematical modelling of cell signalling systems: A useful tool for data integration and validation of hypotheses Dr Julio Vera, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
    Sep 27 Stochastic modelling of the immune response Ken Duffy and/or Vijay Subramanian, Hamilton Institute, NUIM
    Sep 19 Multivariable control of motion systems Mr. Matthijs Boerlage, Department of Mechanical Engineering TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    Aug 28 A point-based algorithm for multiple 3D surface alignment of drug-sized molecules Daniel Baum, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
    Jul 9 Lake water quality monitoring Mr. Stephen Farrell, TCD 
    Jun 21 Using convex optimization for nonparametric statistical analysis of point processes Prof. Todd P. Coleman, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neuroscience Program, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jun 14 E=mc^2: Energising wireless mesh networks with multipath code casting Ms. Wenjun Hu, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
    Jun 5 Classification of time-embedded EEG using short-time principal component analysis Prof. Chuck Anderson, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University
    May 30 Systems biology at FCC - from theory to application Dr Henning Schmidt, Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre (FCC), Gothenburg, Sweden
    May 17 Making machines listen Paris Smaragdis, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
    May 15 Applications of probability in genetics, ecology and population genetics Dr John Moriarty, UCC
    May 11 Commercialisation at NUIM Dr John Scanlan, Technology Transfer Executive, NUI Maynooth
    May 10 Lazy functional generation of musical sounds Prof. Jerzy Karczmarczuk, Dept. d'Informatique, Université de Caen, France
    May 9 Differentiation and integration by cells: The cellular calculus Prof. Phil Hodgkin Head, Immunology Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia
    Apr 25 Evolutionary escape on fitness landscapes Niko Beerenwinkel, Harvard University, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
    Apr 24 Dimer configurations and interlaced particles on the cylinder, and interlacing with RSK-type dynamics Tony Metcalfe, Boole Centre for Research in Informatics, UCC
    Mar 28 Queues in series, combinatorial correspondences, and determinants Dr Ton Dieker, Boole Centre for Research in Informatics, UCC
    Mar 22 Modelling the immune response using probabilistic concepts Prof. Phil Hodgkin Head, Immunology Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia
    Mar 21 Analysis of metabolic responses Dr Fernando Ortega, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
    Feb 23 Surprises in experimental assessment of WLAN systems Prof. Giuseppe Bianchi, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
    Feb 21 Modelling environmental fluctuations in biochemical systems Andrea Rocco, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    Feb 19 Selected problems in automotive vehicle state estimation Dr Jens Kalkkuhl, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
    Feb 2 Everyday technology is a mess Prof. Harold Thimbleby, Future Interaction Technology Lab, Swansea University, Wales
    Jan 17 Metastability of markovian system Dr Wilhelm Huisinga, Research Group "Computational Physiology", http://compphysiol.mi.fu-berlin.de and Hamilton Institute, NUIM

    2006

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 13 An investigation of the empirical mode decomposition based on genetic algorithm optimization schemes Prof. Stephen McLaughlin, Signals and Systems Group, School of Engineering & Electronics, University of Edinburgh 
    Nov 23 Systems biology of sponges: Understanding the evolution of integration in animals - new input from systems biology? Dr Michael Nickel, Department of Zoology, Biological Institute, Stuttgart University
    Nov 6 IP multicast routing Karl Jeacle, Eircom
    Nov 3 Complex networks and control David J.Hill, Federation Fellow, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University
    Oct 13 State-space time-series gaussian processes in dynamic systems modelling Keith Neo Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth
    Oct 12 Absolute stability of time varying control systems. Application to the control of wheeled robots Dr Lev Rapoport, Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow
    Sep 25 Sequence learning and consolidation in a probabilistic model of hippocampal coding Prof. Sue Becker, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
    Sep 13 Some asymptotics for random graphs Anatolii Puhalskii, Colorado University at Denver
    Aug 24 Multi-target tracking in visual images – Finding, following and identifying football players during a game Dr Josephine Sullivan, NADA, KTH, Stockholm
    Aug 22 Systems approaches to robustness analysis of circadian oscillators Frank Doyle, Chemical Engineering/Biomolecular Science & Engineering/Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    Aug 10 Cooperative communication for wireless networks Prof. Sriram Vishwanath, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin
    Jul 20 An equivalence principle for the incorporation of favorable mutations in asexual populations Noam Shoresh, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
    Jun 21 Control, systems biology and communication networks Prof. Rick Middleton, The University of Newcastle, Australia
    Jun 9 An approach to the analysis and control of nonlinear/uncertain systems Prof. Martin Corless, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
    Jun 7 Control and system theory for biochemical reaction networks Jan H. van Schuppen, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    May 31 Epidemics on networks Ayalvadi Ganesh, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    May 29 Next generation CiteSeer: CiteSeerx Dr C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Professor, Supply Chain and Information Systems, The Pennsylvania State University
    May 29 Fixing two weaknesses of the spectral method for graph partitioning Kevin J. Lang, Yahoo! Research
    May 22 Unwanted traffic: Attacks, detection, and potential solutions Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs--Research
    Apr 21 Predictive distributed channel-adaptive fair allocation for IEEE 802.11e WLAN Prof. Stephen McLaughlin, Signals and Systems Group, School of Engineering & Electronics, University of Edinburgh 
    Apr 20 Congestion based routing strategies in multi-hop TDD-CDMA networks Prof. Stephen McLaughlin, Signals and Systems Group, School of Engineering & Electronics, University of Edinburgh 
    Mar 24 New 'dimensions' in genome annotation Prof. Bernhard O. Palsson, Department of Bioengineering, UCSD
    Mar 23 Seamless self-assembly of files in cache networks at minimal storage cost Ed Coffman, Columbia University
    Mar 15 Oscillators, 1/f noise, and stock market fluctuations James Gleeson, School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork
    Mar 7 Feedback control of network intrusion detectors Joao B. D. Cabrera, Scientific Systems Company, Inc. Woburn, MA, USA
    Mar 3 Biological functionality in gene and drug networks Prof. Roy Kishony, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
    Feb 17 Hysteresis operators and fluid models of queueing networks Dr Oleg Rasskazov, Department of Applied Mathematics, UCC
    Jan 13 On the free energy of a Brownian directed polymer Dr John Moriarty, UCC

    2005

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 14 ICA of fMRI ---and of complex-valued--- Data Tulay Adali, Department of CSEE, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Nov 30 Oscillation & periodicity in stochastic systems John Appleby, DCU
    Nov 18 Introduction to intellectual property Dr John Scanlan, Technology Transfer Executive, NUI Maynooth
    Nov 9 Tail asymptotics of subadditive processes and queueing networks Marc LeLarge, UCC
    Nov 1 Self organization of interfering 802.11 wireless access networks Dr Dina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Cambridge, UK
    Oct 27 Adaptive information access and the quest for the personalization-privacy sweetspot Barry Smyth, Adaptive Information Cluster, Department of Computer Science, UCD
    Oct 7 Joint scheduling, routing & congestion control in multi-hop wireless networks R. Srikant, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Oct 4 New sampling methods in network measurement Nick Duffield, AT&T Labs-Research, NJ, USA
    Sept 30 Requiem for the spike  Peter Latham, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
    Sept 27 Hamilton Bicentenary Year 2005 Public Lecture Series - Venue: Royal Irish Academy; Time: 7 p.m. Industrial mathematics in Bell Labs: Past & Present Debasis Mitra, VP Maths Centre, Bell Labs
    Sept 23 Actuated sensor networks  Prof. Gregory Pottie, UCLA
    Sept 14 In Vivo voltammetry: Real-time analysis of neuronal signalling, drug actions & behaviour  Dr John P. Lowry, Conway Institute, UCD
    Sept 8 The Future of Machines Prof. Sir Alistair MacFarlane
    Aug 26 Bayesian inference in Kernel learning & Gaussian process classification problems Dr Mark Girolami, Bioinformatics Research Centre, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
    Aug 25 Evolutionary Design Principles of Bacterial Chemotaxis  Dr Jens Timmer, FDM and Dept. of Mathematiocs and Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany
    Aug 11 How hard are random problems? Phase transitions in satisfiability and graph coloring Prof. Cristopher Moore, University of New Mexico, USA
    Jul 29 Improving our evaluation of transport protocols Dr Sally Floyd, ICSI Center for Internet Research (ICIR), Berkeley, CA, USA
    Jul 27 QFT Non-diagonal controllers for uncertain MIMO systems Dr Marta Barreras Carracedo, Automatic Control and Computer Science Department, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
    Jun 24 Distributed coordination and consensus in mobile agents: From bird flocking and fish schooling to synchronization of coupled oscillators Prof. Ali Jadbabaie, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Jun 24 Call admission policies for DS-CDMA cellular networks based on power control setpoints Prof. Derong Liu, IEEE Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
    Jun 17 Validation of biochemical network models using robust control theory Dr Declan Bates, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, UK
    May 31 An overview of computational and theoretical immunology Alan S. Perelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
    May 19 Multiple alignments, microarrays and multivariate analysis Prof. Des Higgins, Conway Institute, UCD
    May 12 Batch control on a stripping column, vegetable oil setting, automation - S88 - batch control standard, control - A batch control problem in the distillation tower Dr Allan P. Kjaer, COWI, Denmark
    Apr 28 Exploring reconfigurability in wireless networks Dr Linda Doyle, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College
    Apr 21 Hamilton Bicentenary Year 2005 Public Lecture Series -  Schrodingers Legacy: Systems and Life Prof. Peter Wellstead, Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth
    Apr 11 A simple and efficient natural sort Prof. Olin Shivers, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Mar 11 Biochemical analysis of supramolecular muscle protein complexes Prof. Kay Ohlendieck, Head of Biology Department, NUI Maynooth
    Mar 8 CTVR research sampler - Towards an all-optical core internet Prof. Donal O'Mahony, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
    Mar 4 PF and randomization in the OpenBSD network layer Ryan McBride
    Feb 23 Some theoretical aspects of cell signaling: Receptor-ligand interactions and signal amplification cascades Dr Madalena Chaves, Rutgers University
    Feb 18 Synaptic plasticity as a therapeutic target Dr Keith J. Murphy, Conway Institute, UCD
    Feb 10 Hamilton Bicentenary Year 2005 Public Lecture Series - Exploratory research: One route to innovation Derek McAuley, Director, Intel Research Cambridge
    Feb 4 Non-negative sparse coding of polyphonic music spectra Dr Samer A. Abdallah, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University of London
    Jan 28 Stochastic spatio-temporal grammars for images and video Jeffrey Mark Siskind, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
    Jan 21 A differential dynamic games approach to flow control Prof. Richard Vinter, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dept., Imperial College, London
    Jan 18 Dynamic resource management for wireless networks using hybrid systems Dr Mehmet Akar, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
    Jan 12 A computational theory of contour completion in visual cortex Prof. Lance Williams, Dept. of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

    2004

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 14 Approximation in hardy classes with applications to inverse problems Prof. Jonathan Partington, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Leeds
    Nov 19 Robust and optimal control of constrained linear systems Dr Eric Kerrigan, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
    Nov 12 Mean-field interaction models for large TCP networks Prof. Francois Baccelli, INRIA-ENS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
    Nov 5 A joint approach for the simulation and control of differential-algebraic systems Prof. Volker Mehrmann, Institute for Mathematics, TU Berlin
    Oct 22 How the brain keeps the eyes still.....and what happens if it fails Prof. Richard Abadi, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.
    Oct 11 Nonlinear control tools for low thrust orbital transfer Dr Chris Kellett, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia
    Oct 8 Monotone input-output systems: Theory and its applications to molecular biology Prof. David Angeli, Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
    Sep 17 Perspectives on the past and future of control systems: Theory and application Prof. Heinz Unbehauen, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
    Sep 15 Systems biology: Introduction to biology in neurosciences Applied Neurotherapeutics Research Group, University College Dublin and Trinity College.
    Jul 21 Systems biology: Towards organizing principles of cellular dynamics Prof. Kwang-Hyun Cho, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Korea.
    Jun 4 Absolute stability and integral control Prof. Hartmut Logemann, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, U. K.
    May 20 Approximation-based hybrid control synthesis within a behavioural framework Prof. Joerg Raisch, Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany
    May 14 3D tracking of morphable objects using conditionally gaussian nonlinear filters Tim Marks, Dept. of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, U.S.A.
    May 7 Networked decentralised control of multirate sampled-data systems Prof. Sauro Longhi, Dept of Automatic Engineering, Universitat Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
    Apr 2 Cortical software re-use Prof. Ronan Reilly, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth
    Mar 26 Dynamic modelling of signal transduction pathways "simulating what cannot be simulated" Prof. Olaf Wolkenhauer, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Institute for Informatics, University of Rostock, Germany
    Mar 19 A novel optimisation algorithm for image-space matching and 3D space analysis Dr Panos Liatsis, Department of Systems and Sensors, City University, London
    Mar 5 Quantitative robust control engineering: Theory and applications Prof. Mario Garcia-Sanz, Automatic Control and Computer Science Department, Public University of Navarra, Spain
    Feb 20 System dynamics of epidemics Dr Stephen Duncan, Department of engineering Science, University of Oxford
    Feb 5 Concurrent models of biochemical pathways Prof. Muffy Calder, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
    Jan 22 Congestion control for high performance networked multimedia Dr Colin Perkins, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
    Jan 9 Fault-tolerant systems Dr J.M. Maciejowski, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University

    2003

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 4 Making sense of data: The state of the art and open problems in sensor data fusion Dr N. Cade, BAE Systems, London, U.K.
    Nov 14 Computation of the real structured singular value for a drive-by-wire automotive application Dr Mark Halton, PEI-CRSC, Dept. Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick
    Oct 30 ASPECT ? Auto-tuning non-linear controller for industrial use Dr Jus Kocijan, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Oct 17 Vehicle dynamics: Theoretical and practical challenges Dr J. Farrelly, TRW Automotive Research, U. K.
    Sep 30 Matrices and graph theory Prof. Avi Berman, Department of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
    Sep 26 Electric power steering: Easy to say, difficult to do? Dr A. Burton, TRW Electric Power Assisted Steering, U. K.
    Sep 25 Control of constrained dynamic systems Prof. D.Q. Mayne, F.R.S. Imperial College London, U.K.
    Sep 10 Decentralized overlapping control and optimization of complex systems Dr Dusan M. Stipanovic, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
    Sep 10 Non parametric identification Dr W. Heath, University of Newcastle, Australia
    Sep 8 From feedback control to complexity management: A personal perspective Prof. K.S. Narendra, Yale University, U.S.A.
    Sep 5 Image and signal processing for robocup Prof. R. Middleton, University of Newcastle, Australia
    Sep 4 Ethics and science Prof. H. Rosenbrock, F.R.S., Emeritus Professor UMIST, U.K.
    Sep 3 Quantum dynamics and dynamic programming Prof. H. Rosenbrock, F.R.S., Emeritus Professor UMIST, U. K.
    Aug 21 Embedding of dynamical systems Dr J. Huke, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Manchester, U. K.
    Jul 30 The inerter: A new modelling component - concepts and application Prof. Malcolm Smith, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, U. K.
    Jul 29 Classical complexity and quantum entanglement Prof. Leonid Gurvitz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.
    Jul 23 Neuroimaging for computer scientists and EEs Roland R. Lee, MD
    Jul 2 A principled approach to clustering Dr Susanne Still, Dept. of Physics, Princeton University, U.S.A.
    Jun 19 Scalable TCP for highspeed wide area networks: Implementation results and future directions Tom Kelly, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, U. K.
    Jun 18 Emerging methods in system estimation Dr. Brett Ninness, School of electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Australia
    Jun 17 Unsupervised imagery fusion and real world applications Prof. Harold Szu, Digital Media RF Lab, George Washington University, Washington DC and US Office of Naval Research
    May 23 Semidefinite programming in systems and control Prof. R. Balakrishnan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, U.S.A.
    May 20 Blind separation of speech mixtures via time-frequency masking Scott Rickard, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, U.S.A.
    May 9 Theoretical limits on distributed congestion control Prof. F. Kelly, Department of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, U. K.
    Apr 10 Pattern formation in plasma columns and leopards Dana Mackey, School of Mathematical Sciences and National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (DCU)
    Apr 9 Gesture recognition, manual control and mobile devices Dr Roderick Murray-Smith, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
    Apr 2 Making wavelets Dr Paul Curran, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin
    Mar 20 Gittins indices and exploration bonuses Prof. P. Dayan, The Gatsby Institute, University College London, U. K.
    Mar 14 Automated network management - The search for the holy grail Prof. Joseph S. Sventek, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
    Mar 7 Aspects of drive-by-wire systems Prof. Jens Kalkkuhl, DaimlerChrysler Research
    Feb 21 Blind separation of magnetoencephalographic data Barak Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth

    2002

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 5 Terminal region stability of model predictive control for nonlinear systems with input/state constraints Prof. John O'Reilly, Centre for Systems and Control and Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Dec 2 Extracting brain dynamics from single channel data Prof. David Lowe, Neural Computing Research Group, Aston University
    Nov 25 On exponential growth of linear parameter varying systems Dr Fabian Wirth, University of Bremen, Germany
    Oct 30 2D systems and hybrid design Prof. Peter Wellstead, UMIST
    Aug 12 Derivative observations in gaussian process models of dynamical systems Dr Ercan Solak
    Aug 2 Control of color mixing processes Dr Daniel Sbarbaro, University of Concepcion, Chile
    Jul 29 Monitoring and analysis of combustion flames Dr Daniel Sbarbaro, University of Concepcion, Chile
    Jul 12 Near optimal multi-user detection with near signal user complexity Prof. Li Ping, City University of Hong Kong
    Jun 11 Real-time graphics and physically-based animation: The challenges Dr Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin
    May 2 Diagnosis of heart disease from cardiac marker data Prof. George Irwin, Queens University of Belfast
    Apr 22 Hybrid systems: Theory and applications to large scale systems Dr John Lygeros, University of Cambridge.
    Apr 11 Instability and overfitting in neural networks Prof. Padraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin
    Apr 11 Nonlinear system identification, some topics on model selection and validation Prof. Jonas Sjoberg, Chalmers University, Sweden
    Mar 21 Nonlinear dynamics of discrete-time electronics Orla Feely, University College Dublin.
    Mar 14 Statistical multiplexing Prof. John Lewis, Dublin Institute of Technology
    Feb 21 Multi-modal pattern recognition for biomedical and HCI applications Richard Reilly, UCD

    2001

    Date Title Speaker
    Dec 17 Using a $995 FPGA design to "Rob a Bank" Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge, U.K.
    Oct 24 Gaussian process regression Dr Carl Rasmussen, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
    Oct 4 Completely positive matrices Prof. A. Berman, Technion, Haifa, Israel
    Jun 21 Error correcting coding: A topic for mathematicians or engineers? Recent progress in error correcting coding Prof. Li Ping, City University of Hong Kong
    Jan 18 Identification of nonlinear dynamic systems using Gaussian Process Priors Prof. W. E. Leithead, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
    Jan 18 Bayesian perspectives on signal identification Dr Anthony Quinn, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin

    2000

    Date Title Speaker
    Nov 28 Neural control of blood pressure Dr Simon Malpas, University of Auckland, New Zealand
    Nov 28 Automatic detection of apnea with the electrocardiogram Dr Conor Heneghan, UCD
    Aug 18 Multiple-model based tyre friction estimation Dr Jens Kalkkuhl, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, Autonomous Systems Lab
    Aug 18 Non-linear systems: Dynamic analysis by velocity-based linearisation families Dr Douglas Leith, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde

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