Hello there, my name is Niall McInerney and I have just begun the second year of my PhD studies in the University of Limerick. Before I discuss what I am currently working on I will briefly explain the unanticipated trajectory which has led me into the life of postgraduate research. In September of 2013, […]
Read moreMy name is Brendan Florio, and for this post I will be talking about a particularly fun activity for demonstration purposes, which has some hidden mathematics. Mathematics can be a tough sell to high school students. It doesn’t have the colours, flames and explosions of chemistry nor the funky mechanical […]
Read moreMark Twain once said “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education”. Pop-culture entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg seem to have lent a little credibility to Twain’s romantic notion. So did Elon Musk, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin all waste their time by […]
Read moreThe Science Foundation Ireland’s President of Ireland Future Research Leaders programme offers funding of up to €1,000,000 in direct costs for 5-years. It is designed to attract to Ireland outstanding new and emerging research leaders in both scientific and engineering domains, where candidates may have both academic and/or industry relevant backgrounds […]
Read moreHi, my name is Kevin Devine. I am a PhD researcher at MACSI in the University of Limerick (UL). I started my PhD in October 2014 following the completion of my undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Physics in UL. My research deals with modelling of the continuous casting of steel process. […]
Read moreMy name is Matthew Haynes, I am a PhD student in MACSI in the University of Limerick. My research investigates the stability of a horizontal liquid bridge. A horizontal liquid bridge is a volume of liquid suspended between two vertical walls. This suspensions is cause for a force balance between […]
Read moreMy name is David O’Sullivan and I am currently pursuing a PhD in complex contagion on clustered networks. Many systems find a natural interpretation as a complex network where nodes identify the objects of the system and the links between nodes represent the presence of a relationship or interaction between […]
Read moreArterial stents have revolutionised the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD). Acting as a supporting scaffold, these small mesh devices are now routinely inserted into arteries where the blood flow has become dangerously restricted. Over the past decade, arterial stents have evolved from bare metal scaffolds to polymer coated drug-delivery […]
Read moreMy name is Kevin Moroney. I’m a PhD researcher in industrial mathematics in the MACSI group in the University of Limerick. Unlike more traditional PhD research which explores and develops a central topic in great detail, my PhD is based on a number of smaller collaborative projects of interest to […]
Read moreIn financial engineering the pricing of options and derivatives is a major field of interest. The behavior of assets is in general described via stochastic differential equations (SDEs). With the help of the Ito formula options prices can be shown to be solutions of parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs). Especially if option prices are […]
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