From a MSc to a PhD

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

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Weapons of Maths Consumption

My name is Brendan Florio, and for this post I will be talking about a particularly fun activity for demonstration purposes, which has some hidden

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Applying PhD Research Skills to Entrepreneurship

Mark 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

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The President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Programme

The 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

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An Insight into an Overseas Collaboration

Hi, 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

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The stability of a horizontal liquid bridge

My name is Matthew Haynes, I am a PhD student in MACSI in the University of Limerick. My research investigates the stability of a horizontal

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Hunting for Ground Truths

My 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

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ECMI Special Interest Group: Advancing the design of medical stents

Arterial stents have revolutionised the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD). Acting as a supporting scaffold, these small mesh devices are now routinely inserted into

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The industrial mathematics PhD

My 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

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High order ADI schemes for option pricing problems

In 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

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