Maths & Stats

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Congratulations to MU student Daniel Drapeau @MU_MathsStats on receiving the 2025 Hamilton Prize in Mathematics from the @RIAdawson . The prestigious award recognises Ireland’s top undergraduate mathematics students. 👏👏👏

A temperature event of 33 degrees Celsius in Dublin’s Phoenix Park has gone from being a 1 in 180-year event in 1942 to a 1 in 9-year event in 2020, according to a new study led by Maynooth University. @ICARUS_Maynooth @Maynoothgeog @MU_Hamilton maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/ex…

📻 Listen back: Professor Andrew Parnell, Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, discusses how extreme weather temperatures are becoming more frequent. 🌡️🥵 @MU_Hamilton @ICARUS_Maynooth rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

We are hiring an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Statistics on a 12-month contract. The deadline for applications is 23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Sunday, 28th July 2024. Please click the link below for more details and information on how to apply: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecrui…

I got to visit @TodaywithClaire on Thursday and talk about calendars and clocks. I can't have been too confusing, because the piece made it to Playback on @RTEOne, though they recommended that you'd had a coffee before hand :-) (I also got a picture of the broadcast clock!)

Learn a bit more about the history of the DImodels package for R! A blog post on @CarolineBrophy5’s dimodels.com webpage dimodels.com/blogs/blog-pos…

Abstract submission is now open for the 2024 International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience. I am co-organising the conference with @AvitabileD and Jonathan Rubin at University College Dublin from June 12-14, 2024. Follow the link to submit docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Interested in climate change and urban health? Two PhD studentships @MaynoothUni #HorizonEurope open for application Two Topic areas Climate/Data Science @aparnellstats @NCahill_Stat and Environmental Psychology/Sleep Science @Cooganlab @TadhgMacIntyre @IVIinsights tinyurl.com/GoGreenNext Submission date for Expressions of Interest: Sunday, 10th December, 2023

For #MathsWeek2023, a maths/chemistry joke: I was given a problem in maths class where I had to solve for the price cake ingredients. I got a solution for the baking soda, but the teacher said it was too basic. (In the spirit of the times, this was workshopped with Bing AI)

🔬📚 It's Research Week next week! 🌟 From 23-26 October 2023, the University invites the public in to hear about and engage with the rich body of multi-disciplinary research being undertaken right here in MU. #MUResearch #ResearchWeek Visit maynoothuniversity.ie/research-week

For Tuesday, @mathsweek shaggy dog story: Sean and Theresa are on a flight from Pittsburgh to Dublin. After about an hour, there is a strange noise, and the captain announces over the intercom, ...

William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, astronomer and physicist WATCH: RTÉ News reports #OnThisDay in 2003 rte.ie/b/1407478

Our #Researcher of the week is Maynooth University @MU_Hamilton #PhD student Oluwayomi Akinfenwa Oluwayomi's work is on "Visualisations of Bayesian Hierarchical Models" Check out Oluwayomi's video: vimeo.com/873267595 @scienceirel @NCahill_Stat @cathhur @dwmal1 @Yomibless

Very well done Liam 👏👏👏

On October 16 staff and students of our dept. and members of the public are invited to join the Hamilton Walk. 🚌 The bus leaves at 1:15pm from the old campus gate at @MaynoothUni 📧 If interested in joining contact Fiacre Ó Cairbre - fiacre.ocairbre@mu.ie #MathsWeek2023

Proud supervisor moment🥹 great 1st paper from my 1st PhD student now online🔓 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… in which @MateusMaiaM had the crazy idea to embed Gaussian processes in the terminal nodes of Bayesian additive regression tree ensembles to add smoothness & spatial dependence