Category: Limerick

University of Limerick academic appointed Vice Chair of the Royal Irish Academy Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences Committee

University of Limerick researcher and academic Dr. Romina Gaburro has been appointed Vice-Chair of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences Committee. Dr Gaburro will serve in this new role during her full term 2022-2026 at the RIA. This all-island multidisciplinary committee, that includes representatives from academia, […]

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Short-term trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles

Today we caught up with Sushil Sharma a PhD student at the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training (CRT) in Foundations of Data Science who carried out his placement with Valeo and to find out more about his poster presentation at the 30th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and […]

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MACSI Postdoctoral and Research Fellow Network

In 2022, MACSI formed an inclusive, researcher-led network for postdoctoral and research fellows working in mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics. Over the last 12 months our network has grown, and we currently have 11 postdoctoral researchers and research fellows at MACSI. This network: Take some time to read about: Dr. […]

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Meet our SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science PhD Students

The Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research Training (CRT) in Foundations of Data Science is a large-scale collaborative initiative between the University of Limerick (UL), Maynooth University (MU), University College Dublin (UCD), a rich ecosystem of multinational and indigenous companies and an international network of collaborators; it is coordinated […]

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Meet MACSI’s Women in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been successful in achieving the very prestigious Bronze Athena SWAN Department Award. The Athena SWAN Charter encourages and recognises commitment to combating under-representation and advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) roles within the higher education and […]

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A New Mathematical Modelling of Crystallization in Microgravity Project at MACSI

Last year, MACSI in collaboration with SSPC, SFI Research Centre for Pharmaceuticals at the University of Limerick announced its partnership with Varda Space Industries in the US. Pharmaceutical compounds often crystallize in two or more forms, called polymorphs.  If only one of the polymorphs has desirable medicinal effects, then there are […]

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International Symposium on the Edges of Glaciology (2-7 July 2023) Limerick

This summer, MACSI together with the International Glaciological Society will host the International Symposium on the Edges of Glaciology. The conference will focus on edges in glaciology, which may include: beds of ice sheets or glaciers, supraglacial processes, crevasses, calving, grain boundaries (of ice and snow crystals), and perhaps philosophical […]

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Award for University of Limerick MACSI team that was central to COVID-19 statistical modelling in Ireland

March 2020 changed the lives of everyone around the around. We were all worried about the spread of COVID-19, fascinated with R number and hoping lockdowns would not last long. Working in the background was the UL team from MASCI (Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry) who as part […]

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