Hamilton Institute

The Hamilton Institute is a research institute of Maynooth University, based in the Eolas Building on the university's North Campus in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It was founded in 2001 with support from Science Foundation Ireland and works as a bridge between mathematics and its applications in information and communication technology (ICT), biology and other disciplines.

Its research has covered communication networks, mathematical biology and fundamental mathematics. Current areas of interest include:

• Privacy in online systems
• Probability applied to immunology
• Randomised network protocols

The institute's approach is to apply mathematics to real-world problems. Its researchers have worked on national and international projects funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Higher Education Authority, the EU's FP7 programme and Enterprise Ireland, and have collaborated with researchers at IBM, CERN and MIT.

For postgraduate research, the institute works with Maynooth University's academic departments to recruit, fund, supervise, train and mentor PhD and MSc research students.