THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY IS IRELAND'S LEADING BODY OF EXPERTS IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann champions research. We identify and recognise Ireland’s world class researchers. We support scholarship and promote awareness of how science and the humanities enrich our lives and benefit society. We believe that good research needs to be promoted, sustained and communicated. The Academy is run by a Council of its members. Membership is by election and considered the highest academic honour in Ireland.
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Hamilton Day: Annual Lecture 2014
On Thursday 16 October 2014, Professor Cedric Villani, Professor at the University of Lyon and Director of the Institut Henri Poincar will give the annual Hamilton lecture.
Hamilton Day Public Conversation and Prize Giving 2015
On Hamilton day the Academy will host a Public Conversation with a number of leading Irish researchers. This event will aim to examine networks and their applications from different perspectives. The speakers will cover...

Hamilton Day: Annual Lecture 2015 ‘Understanding Networks Through Physical Metaphors’
On 16 October the Royal Irish Academy will celebrate the anniversary of George Rowan Hamilton’s discovery of quaternion theory with the annual Hamilton Lecture.

Engineering our future: interdisciplinary perspectives
Hamilton Day panel discussion

Hamilton Lecture 2016
Modern cryptography in the age of cloud computing

Cancelled: Hamilton Day Public Discussion
Please note that due to Hurricane Ophelia this event has been cancelled.

Cancelled: Hamilton Day Lecture 2017: Random mountains and random distances
Please note the Hamilton Day Lecture has been cancelled due to hurricane Ophelia.

‘Design, disasters and development’
Public lecture by Jo da Silva OBE, winner of The Institution of Structural Engineers’ 2017 Gold Medal.

Hamilton Lecture 2018 - On coin tosses, atoms and forest fires
To celebrate William Rowan Hamilton's life and contribution to mathematics, we present the annual Hamilton Lecture given by Professor Martin Hairer (Imperial College London).

Hamilton Lecture 2019: Parties, doughnuts and colouring: some problems in graph theory
Professor Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University will deliver lecture to celebrate Hamilton's contribution to mathematics.
