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• John Hinde visited Departamento de Ciências Exatas, ESALQ/USP,  Brazil to attend The RBras Meeting (Piracicaba, SP, May, 29 – 31/05) where he organised an invited session on Longitudinal Data and presented (with Chris Brien, Adelaide, Australia) the Closing Keynote talk on Biometry at ESALQ: Past, present and future. He also spent time working with his long-term collaborator Professor Clarice Demétrio. The visit was funded by a FAPESP Project: 2024/01638-3. During the meeting he was awarded Honorary Fellow of the PPGEEA (Postgraduate Programme in Statistics and Agricultural Experimentation) at ESALQ/USP in recognition of long-term dedication and collaboration with the PPGEEA and RBras (The Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society).
• Michel went to the Royal Society of London for the annual Editorial Board meeting of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. This companion journal of the longest-running scientific journal in the world, the Philosophical Transactions, welcomes research papers, review articles and special issues. Don't hesitate to contact Michel for advice if you are considering submitting something in one of these formats. He has six years of experience working with the journal as an editorial board member and eight years as the reviews editor.
• Cathal and Fintan organised a workshop on June 7th on Irish-medium provision at university level, with guest speakers from the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol in Wales.
• Patick Farrell (Oxford) is visiting Niall 11 July to 16 August.
• Niall gave a talk at the Boundary and Interior Layer (BAIL) conference in A Coruña. (Photo attached). He also made a successful bid for hosting the next iteration of the conference in June 2026.
• Niall will organise the 21st Layer Phenomena Workshop in May 2025: https://www.niallmadden.ie/LayerPhenomena2025/
• Janhavi (PhD student with Stephan) presented her work at the EMMC 19 conference, specifically in the Symposium on Mechanics of Soft Materials, held from May 29th to May 31st. Her presentation focused on "Elastic Instabilities in Soft Particulate Composites with Stiffening Behavior."
• Quan contributed a talk "Hard-Magnetic Soft Elastic Metamaterials for Tunable Wave Manipulation" at EMMC19: 19TH EUROPEAN MECHANICS OFMATERIALS CONFERENCE, Madrid, 29-31 May 2024.
• Quan contributed a talk "Hard-Magnetic Soft Mechanical Metamaterials: Design and Wave Manipulation" at ECCOMAS CONGRESS 2024: 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Lisboa, 3-7 June 2024.
• Jim participated in the ICMS Knowledge Transfer Workshop on Geometric Rigidity, Graphic Statics and Engineering which took place in the London office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill architectural firm. (https://www.som.com/).
• Jim visited KU Leuven for a week to work with Fatemeh Mohammadi, Shin-Ichi Tanigawa and Tony Nixon on a project on algebraic shifting and rigidity.
• Andrew delivered seminars on
• "Learning about learners: statistical modelling of CEFR graded texts from students learning English" at the Université de Rennes 2
• "Modelling epigenetic change across the lifecourse" at the University of Oslo
• "Functional data analysis, biomarkers and omics data" at the Université de Bordeaux
• Andrew was external examiner for Laura Hegemann's PhD on "Etiology of Neurodevelopmental Traits: Measurement, Specificity, and Within-Family Transmission" at the University of Oslo
• Nastaran had presented an oral presentation in May 2024 with title : "Automating functional data analysis in real time: an application to pressure sensor data in the treatment of venous leg ulcers” at 44th Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI 2024) from 13th May to 15th May 2024.
• Harrison Anthony (Cathal’s group) had a paper accepted in Briefings in Bioinformatics (subject to minor revision)
• Mehak Chopera (Cathal’s group) gave an oral presentation on her research at the University of Liverpool
• Irma Vlasac, a PhD student in Dartmouth College, is beginning a research visit to the Seoighe group next month, supported by the US National Science Foundation
• Sophie Matthews (Seoighe group) was accepted for an oral presentation at the Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
• Mark was invited to attend the BIRS workshop Quantum Circuit Design Automation in Kelowna, BC and gave a tutorial on "Magic State Distillation" (pics below)
• Mark was collaborator in recently awarded "Alliance International Catalyst Quantum Grant: Improving the advantages of fault-tolerant quantum computation" with Simon Fraser University
• Harold gave a talk at the 58th Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy in Aarhus (Denmark). 

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Outputs

• Hill, R., & Madden, N. (2024). Layer-adapted meshes for singularly perturbed problems via mesh partial differential equations and a posteriori information. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 168, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2024.05.019
• Newell, M.L., & Trombetti, M. (2024). A local approach to stability groups. Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-024-01345-8
• Gulzari, M., Zhang, Q., King, E., Tong, L., & Lai, S. K. (2024). Valley edge states with opposite chirality in temperature dependent acoustic media. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 57, 345303. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ad4f9a
• Lussier, A., Wood, N., Fischer, J., Luo, M., Melton, P., Neumann, A., ... Simpkin, A.J., ... & Dunn, E. (2024). A Meta-Analysis of Sensitive Periods for the Effects of Childhood Adversity on DNA Methylation. Biological Psychiatry, 95(10), S61-S62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.152
• Hernon, O., McSharry, E., Simpkin, A. J., MacLaren, I., & Carr, P. J. (2024). Evaluating Nursing Students' Venipuncture and Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation Knowledge, Attitude, and Performance: A Two-Phase Evaluation Study. Journal of Infusion Nursing, 47(2), 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1097/NAN.0000000000000539