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New publication
A new article, "Quark-gluon vertex from Nf=2 lattice QCD", by Dr Jon-Ivar Skullerud and collaborators in Australia, Germany and Portugal has been published in Physical Review D.
Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2021
Intel funds 10 scholarships for MU Post-Graduate Students
Ten Maynooth University students pursuing a Master’s degree in the Faculty of Science and Engineering have been awarded scholarships from Intel Ireland.
Date: Friday, 15 January 2021
Maynooth University partners in major project awarded €7.3 million under Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund
Landmark project represents the first large scale collaboration on quantum computing in Ireland
Date: Saturday, 07 December 2019
Fitzgerald scholarship for undergraduate research
A 10 week summer research scholarship is available in the Department of Theoretical Physics. Application deadline Friday 3 May.
Date: Friday, 12 April 2019
Strong Interaction: Maynooth University plays host to 13th Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum Conference
300 physicists will meet at Maynooth University to explore the mysteries of Quantum Chromodynamics and emerging applications in particle physics and beyond
Date: Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Maynooth to host Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum conference
About 400 international delegates will gather in Maynooth for the 13th Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum conference, 1-6 August 2018
Date: Thursday, 19 October 2017
SFI research investment of €2.5mn in Maynooth University
D’fhógair an tAire le freagracht as Oiliúint, Scileanna, Nuálaíocht agus Taighde agus Forbairt, John Halligan TD, inniu go bhfuil infheistíocht ar fiú €2.5m í déanta ag Fondúireacht Eolaíochta Éireann (FEÉ) i gcúrsaí taighde in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad trí Chlár Taighdeoirí FEÉ.
Date: Thursday, 21 September 2017
Department name changes to Theoretical Physics
Department of Mathematical Physics changes its name to Department of Theoretical Physics
Date: Wednesday, 01 March 2017
Secondary school students get hands on experience with particle physics
24 secondary school students attended the 2015 International Particle Physics Masterclasses at Maynooth University, Friday 20 March. The day included lectures about particle physics theory and experiment, analysis of data from the ALICE experiment at CERN, and a video conference with other students from Italy, France and Germany, hosted by CERN.
Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Maynooth University congratulates Peter Higgs and François Englert on Nobel Prize in Physics
Maynooth University today congratulated Peter Higgs and François Englert on their Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded today "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider".
Date: Tuesday, 08 October 2013