The Hamilton Mathematics Institute TCD
| Formation | 2005 |
|---|---|
Parent organization | Trinity College Dublin |
| Website | https://www.tcd.ie/Hamilton/ |
The Hamilton Mathematics Institute (HMI)[1][2] at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) was created in 2003 and was officially launched in 2005,[3] to mark the bicentenary of William Rowan Hamilton's birth that year.[4] According to the website of the Simons Foundation, the institute "aims to foster and support the economic, cultural and societal benefits of mathematics and fundamental science as drivers of progress in Ireland".[5]
W. R. Hamilton was one of the world's greatest mathematicians who spent his life in Dublin and his academic life at Trinity, becoming the Andrews Professor of Astronomy (1783) and the Royal Astronomer of Ireland in the College even before he completed his undergraduate degree (BA in 1827, TCD). He was a towering figure in mathematics and mathematical physics and his legacy of fundamental research was continued at Trinity by George Francis FitzGerald and George Salmon in the 19th century; by Edmund Whittaker (who, like Hamilton, was the Royal Astronomer and Andrews Professor at TCD); by John Lighton Synge and Ernest Walton in the 20th century.[relevant? ]
Members
The HMI does not have its own faculty, except several Simons Visiting Professors[6] (Mikhail Kapranov, Francis Brown, Konstantin Zarembo), but draws on expertise from the local community at TCD, in Dublin and nationally. It has close ties to the School of Mathematics[7] at TCD, and the Director (by the statutes of the HMI) is appointed from among the School of Mathematics chaired professors. Founding and current Director of HMI is Samson Shatashvili, holder of Trinity College Dublin Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847) . Founding members of HMI Scientific Advisory Board were Sir Michael Atiyah, Peter Goddard (physicist), Friedrich Hirzebruch and Ludwig Faddeev, current Advisory Board members are Michael Bershadsky, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Okounkov, Volker Schomerus and Yuri Tschinkel. Today, the HMI enhances mathematics activities in TCD and in Ireland through postdoctoral program, visitor program, conferences, workshops and outreach.[8][9][10]
One notable member of the Hamilton Mathematical Institute is Samson Shatashvili.[11]
Events
In September 2006, the institute hosted the second "William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop", an event which focused on surface subgroups in low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory.[12] This event was supported by a grant from the US National Science Foundation.[12]
On 27 September 2019, the institute hosted a conference, which was dedicated to Michael Atiyah.[13] There, it was announced that the Simons Foundation would give the institute a grant of $600,000[clarification needed].[13] The Simons Foundation had previously given a grant of the same amount to Trinity College Dublin in 2016.[13]
References
- ↑ "HMI". Trinity College Dublin.
- ↑ "The Hamilton Mathematics Institute". Naturindex.
- ↑ "HMI Official Launch". Trinity College Dublin.
- ↑ "About - Hamilton Mathematical Institute". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 13 July 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Hamilton Mathematics Institute at Trinity College Dublin". Simons Foundation. 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
- ↑ "Targeted Grants to Institutes". Simons Foundation. 26 June 2014.
- ↑ "School of Mathematics". Trinity College Dublin.
- ↑ "HMI events". Trinity College Dublin.
- ↑ "Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Hamilton Mathematics Institute". European Mathematical Society.
- ↑ General Relativity and Gravitation. World Scientific. 7 November 2005. ISBN 9789814479714. Search this book on
- ↑ "Organisations: The Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity College: The Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity College, Ireland". www.mathnet.ru. Retrieved 13 July 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 12.0 12.1 "NSF Award Search: Award # 0624240 - William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 McKinney-Perry, Rachel (2019-10-01). "Hamilton mathematics institute receives $600,000 grant". Trinity News. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
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