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• Quan (postdoctoral fellow with Stephan) attended the Phononics 2023 Conference at the University of Manchester, 11-16 June and gave a talk on "Hard-magnetic soft elastic metamaterials for tunable wave manipulation".
  
  
• Jim gave talks at the Fields Institute (Toronto) Workshop on Geometric Constraints: Materials, Graphs and Matroids, Rigidity and Packings, and at the Alberta Topology Seminar at the Biogeoscience Research Station in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. He co-organised the latter meeting with Ryan Budney, University of Victoria. 
  
  
• Jim is an invited speaker at the annual Irish Mathematical Society conference in Limerick, 31 Aug - 01 Sep. 
  
  
• James Hayes (2023 Hamilton Prize Winner who just graduated from our Mathematical Sciences program, and incidentally, is a grandson of Michel's PhD advisor) will be giving a short talk at the Irish Mathematical Society conference in Limerick. The talk is based on joint work with David Cormican (who is starting a PhD with Tobias)  and Jim, arising from James and David’s final year project.
  
  
• Bharat and Michel published an article (see Outputs below) with Oisín Morrison (2021 Hamilton Prize Winner), based on his Final Year Project supervised by Bharat.
  
  
• Deirdre (PhD student with Aaron) presented her research talk entitled "Simultaneous optical & radio observations of the M dwarf flare star binary system EQ Peg" at the Irish National Astronomy Meeting conference in University College Cork, 24-25 August.
  
  
• Aisling, Mark (PhD students with Mark) and Victoria (PhD student with Michael McG) attended the conference Theory of Quantum Communication, Computing and Cryptography 2023 in Aveiro, Portugal.

• Victoria gave an online talk for the Early Career Mathematicians Seminar Series at IMA. Talk available here.

• Victoria was interviewed for the upcoming 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg Germany. Interview available here.

• Victoria received funding to attend the upcoming conference Talking Maths in Public 2023 in Newcastle, UK.
  
  

• Ted has been invited to give a talk on  ``Linear block and convolutional MDS codes to required rate, distance and type'' at

``The 5th International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems'', November 17-20, Macao, China (Online and in-person).

• Ted is External Examiner for Masters, Higher Diploma and Diploma programmes on Data Science/Data Analytics at DkIT (Dundalk Institute of Technology).

• Ted gave a talk on "Groups and group rings are best for Coding Theory" at the ISCHIA Group Theory Conference, May 2022.

• Ted was invited to give a talk on "Idempotents"  at the "CCGTA, Combinatorics, Computing, Group Theory and Applications" conference in South Florida. He was also one of the organisers and wrote parts of the application and reports; the conference was sponsored by NSF (National Science Foundation of USA).

•  Ted was one of the keynote speakers at GCGN2023, Graph Spectra, Combinatorial Graph Theory, Group Theory and Nano-Molecular-Electronic-Devices; Malta 27-30 March. His talk was on "Building matrices and unique reconstruction'' and is available online.

• Ted regularly reviews for Mathematical Reviews. Here's his message: "This important publication for the mathematical community urgently requires more reviewers. A  `review' essentially summarises and states what is new in the article. Reviewers have a different function to referees. MathSciNet is the electronic version of Mathematical Reviews and is a great resource for us all. MSC (Mathematical Subject Classification), which we all use, was developed by Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt Math."

• The CRT in Genomics organised a Careers Day event for its students at RCSI on 25th Aug, with participation by most of the Galway-based CRT students. It included keynote speakers, breakout sessions on careers in various sectors (startups, academia, health research and clinical settings, Industry, Public sector, NGOs) and careers outside Genomics Data Science), and the opportunity for networking!

• Cathal is hosting a research visit from Marvin Döbel, a research scientist at the university hospital in Tübingen.

•  Cathal and Patrick Staunton (postdoctoral fellow) are collaborators on Biotope2, an SDG Challenge 2021 programme project, which was runner-up for the SFI Future Innovator Prize. Total value: €700,000, of which approximately half goes to Malawi and  €100,000 will come to Galway.
  
  

• Andrew delivered a keynote talk on "Modelling epigenetic change across the lifecourse " at the UKEMS conference in Dublin in July,
  
  
• The SFI-Cisco Clare Island HomeHealth project that Andrew is a co-investigator on held a successful outreach day in late June.
  https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2023/0628/1391577-clare-island/

• Jair Andrade has joined Andrew's group as a postdoc working on the Home Health project.
• Niall is currently attending a workshop "New Directions in Applied Linear Algebra" at the Banff International Research Station, Canada. He is giving a talk on preconditioning for singularly perturbed PDEs.

• Harold gave a talk at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics ICIAM conference in Tokyo, Japan.

• Michel gave an invited talk at a workshop on "Mathematical mechanical biology" held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. The talk is available here.

• Angela is giving a talk at the conference "Counting Problems in Groups" at the University of Lincoln, UK, and another at the Combinatorial section of the Congress of the Italian Mathematical Union, Pisa, Italy.

• Pilib visited collaborators at the Einstein College of Medicine and at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA.
  
  
• Kevin, Sarah, Shane, and Karen (Pilib's group) all presented posters at the ISMB/ECCB 2024 conference in Lyon, France, 22-28 July.
  
  
• Dr Seyed Aghil Hooshmand (Aghil) has joined Pilib's group to work on the HEA-funded North-South Research project on cancer liquid biopsies.
  
  
• Jingyan Wang (Jane) has started a PhD in Pilib's group. Jane is co-supervised with Cynthia Coleman in Medicine and is funded by a Chinese Scholarship Council Research Scholarship.
  
  
• Rachel's paper "Interchangeable Origami Wallpaper Patterns" appeared in the Proceedings of this year's Bridges Conference on Mathematics and Art. She gave a talk at the conference, with the same title, and exhibited a piece of art, see below.
  
  
• Rachel is a guest editor for a special issue of Linear Algebra and its Applications dedicated to the proceedings of the ILAS Conference held in Galway in June 2022, and a special issue of PRIMUS on teaching and learning in linear algebra.
  
  
• Three postdoctoral fellows have recently joined Bharat's team: Dr Chethana Rao, Dr Pratyush Kumar, and Dr Shaima D'Souza.

Here is their bio: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/tripathilab/team/

Outputs

• Quan Zhang, Andrei V. Cherkasov, Chen Xie, Nitesh Arora, Stephan Rudykh, Nonlinear Elastic Vector Solitons in Hard-Magnetic Soft Mechanical Metamaterials, International Journal of Solids and Structures 280, 112396 (2023). 
  
  
• Lina Yang, Quan Zhang, Gengkai Hu, Nuo Yang, Deformation Insensitive Thermal Conductance of the Designed Si Metamaterial, Applied Physics Letters 123, 062201 (2023).
• Cruickshank, J., Kastis, E., Kitson, D., Schulze, B. Braced Triangulations and Rigidity. Discrete Comput Geom (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-023-00546-5
  
  
• Ted Hurley ``Linear block and convolutional MDS codes to required rate, distance and type''
  Intelligent Computing. SAI 2022, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 507. Springer, pp 129-157 (2023).
  
  
• Nicola Fitz-Simon, John Ferguson, Alberto Alvarez-Iglesias, Mircea T. Sofonea and Tsukushi Kamiya,
  Understanding the role of mask-wearing during COVID-19 on the island of Ireland
  Royal Society Open Science, 10 (7), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221540
  
  
• Mallart, C., Simpkin, A.J., Venant, R., Ballier, N., Stearns, B., Li, J.Y. and Gaillat, T., 2023, July. Exploring a New Grammatico-functional Type of Measure as Part of a Language Learning Expert System. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023) (pp. 466-476).
  
  
• Hernon, O., McSharry, E., Simpkin, A.J., MacLaren, I. and Carr, P.J., 2023. Effectiveness of structured self-evaluation of video recorded performance on peripheral intravenous catheter insertion: a randomised control trial study protocol. Trials, 24(1), pp.1-8. 

• Lussier, A.A., Zhu, Y., Smith, B.J., Simpkin, A.J., Smith, A.D., Suderman, M.J., Walton, E., Relton, C.L., Ressler, K.J. and Dunn, E.C., 2023. Sensitive periods for the effect of childhood adversity on DNA methylation: Updated results from a prospective, longitudinal study. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 3(3), pp.567-571.
  
  
• Nafo W, Guldeniz O, Jun H, Kim E (2023) Ligamentous Tethering and Intradiscal Pressure Affecting the Mechanical Environment of Scoliotic Spines. Med Eng Phys 104035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2023.104035

• Nafo W (2023) Polymer-based nanosystems and their applications in bone anticancer therapy. Front Chem 11:1218511. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2023.1218511

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• Oisín Morrison, Michel Destrade, Bharat B. Tripathi, An atlas of the heterogeneous viscoelastic brain with local power-law attenuation synthesised using Prony-series. Acta Biomaterialia (2023) 
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2023.07.040

• S.P. Venkata, V. Balbi, M. Destrade, D. Accoto, G. Zurlo. Programmable wrinkling for functionally-graded auxetic circular membranes. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 63 (2023) 102045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2023.102045