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Date: Resuming Autumn 2024
Time: ***12noon Ireland***
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***Resuming Autumn 2024***
Recent
May 7, Professor Jennifer McKinley, Queen's University Belfast. "Spatial Analytics for Geohealth"
May 1, Dr. Stylianos (Stelios) Basagiannis, Collins Aerospace – Applied Research & Technology Centre. "Concepts and solutions on Verification and Validation of cyber-physical systems: an industrial view"
Apr 24, Professor John Goold, Trinity College Dublin. "Thermodynamics of the quantum Mpemba effect"
Apr 17, Professor Lulu Qian, California Institute of Technology. "DNA neural networks that learn"
Apr 10, Professor Michel Destrade, University of Galway. "Biomechanics of soft tissue: Experiments, Models and Simulations"
Mar 20, Dr John Regan, Maynooth University. "Everything you ever wanted to know about Massive Black Holes but were too afraid to ask"
Mar 13, Dr Sarah Guerin, University of Limerick. "Piezoelectric Biomolecules for Lead Free, Reliable, Eco Friendly Electronics"
Mar 6, Professor Damien Baigl, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris. "Synthetic self-assembly with life-like properties"
Feb 28, Professor Doug Leith, Trinity College Dublin. "On The Many Ways That The Android OS Is Snooping on Us"
Feb 21, Dr. Marie Farrell, University of Manchester. "What Should I Verify?"
Feb 14, Professor Anil Kokaram, Trinity College Dublin. "Challenges to picture quality in video content workflows"
Dec 20, Professor Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin. "Unifying Theories of Programming: bringing order to the Formal Methods Tower of Babel"
Dec 14, Professor Philip Cardiff, University College Dublin. "The finite volume method for multiphysics applications"
Dec 6, Professor Lorna Lopez, Maynooth University. "Genetic Insights into Sleep and Circadian Disruption in Neurodevelopmental and Neuropsychiatric Conditions: A Data Science Focus"
Nov 29, Professor Tony Veale, University College Dublin. "Bursting the Filter Bubble: From Echo Chambers to Speech Balloons with Data-Driven Comics"
Nov 22, Professor Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick, Lero, Confirm, CRT-AI and HRI. "The Digital Thread as Digital Transformation of Software-knit Ecosystems"
Nov 15, Professor Claudia Tarantola, University of Pavia. "Simplicity in Action: Interpreting Effects in Binary and Ordinal Data Analysis Models"
Nov 8, Professor David Malone, Maynooth University. "Why is it Wednesday, November 8th 2023, 13:00:00 UTC?"
Oct 25, Professor Cristina Cano, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. "Problematizing the sustainability of 5G/6G networks and devising alternative ways forward"
Oct 18, Professor John Kelleher, Maynooth University. "Probing Neural Language Model Embeddings"
Oct 11, Professor Pekka Orponen, Aalto University. "Algorithmic Design of 3D Wireframe RNA Polyhedra"
Oct 4, Dr Lara Cassidy, Trinity College Dublin. "A genomic journey through Irish history"
May 5, Professor Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia. "Road Traffic Modelling and Control: from Classical to Multi-Scale Approaches"
Apr 26, Dr Trent Rogers, Maynooth University. "Controlling the rate of (DNA nanoscale)structure formation"
Apr 5, Professor Norma Bargary, University of Limerick. "Functional data analysis with application in sports"
Mar 29, Dr Zibo Chen, Westlake University. "A synthetic protein-level neural network in mammalian cells"
Mar 22, Dr Guillaume Gines, ESPCI Paris. "DNA circuits featuring droplet microfluidics for microRNA sensing"
Mar 1, Dr Alessandro Lunghi, Trinity College Dublin. "Spin relaxation in solid-state materials: case closed...?"
Feb 22, Dr Anton van Beek, University College Dublin. "Bayesian Methods in Design"
Feb 15, Dr Anthony Genot, The University of Tokyo. "Storing and processing information in DNA"
Feb 8, Dr Rowan McLaughlin, Maynooth University. "Exploring Ireland's past with data"
Feb 1, Professor Simon Wilson, Trinity College Dublin. "Estimating the number of species using proxy data on effort"
Dec 14, Professor David Soloveichik, The University of Texas at Austin. "Dynamical systems and chemical computers: all you need is DNA"
Dec 7, Dr Katie O'Brien, HPSC (Health Protection Surveillance Centre). "Analysing health data: lessons learned"
Nov 23, Professor Caroline Brophy, Trinity College Dublin. "Statistical modelling of multi-site biodiversity experiments using random coefficient models"
Nov 16, Professor Vanesa Daza, Pompeu Fabra University. "Is there any science behind the blockchain?"
Nov 9, Dr Thinh Doan, Stripe. "Introduction to Workforce Management"
Oct 26, Dr Chih-Hong Cheng, Fraunhofer IKS. "When neural networks meet dependability"
Oct 19, Dr Elisa Fadda, Maynooth University. "Sugars and Spikes: The sweet side of viral infection"
Oct 12, Professor Ioanna Manolopoulou, University College London. "Bayesian Causal Forests for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Estimation"
Oct 5, Professor Irina Kostitsyna, TU Eindhoven. "Unlabeled multi-robot motion planning for disc robots"
Sep 26, Professor Catalina García García, University of Granada. "An overview of multicollinearity: contributions and alternative to ridge regression"
Sep 21, Professor Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI). "The epistemology, praxes and politics of urban science and city dashboards"
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Oct 6, IBM Recruitment Talk, Wendy Belluomini, Director, IBM Research.
May 18, "The impact of observation and action errors on informational cascades", Prof Vijay Subramanian, EECS, University of Michigan, USA.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small) |
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 |
| 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 Video: view online, download (HD/large), download (iPod/small) |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |