Research

Research Seminars

Full seminar archives available from john.ringwood@eeng.nuim.ie

Electronic Engineering Departmental Seminars 2008

4th June - 2.00pm
Speaker : Prof Razvan Andonie, of Central Washington University
Title : Extreme Data Mining : Interference from Small Datatsets
Location : Seminar Room, Department of Electronic Engineering
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Electronic Engineering Departmental Seminars 2007

13th June - 2.30 pm
Speaker: Ms. Justine McCormack.
Title:    Calibration Schemes for Antenna Arrays.

06th June - 2.30 pm
Speaker: Dr. Emanuel Ragnoli.
Title:   Support Vector Machines - Theory & Applications.

30th May - 2.30 pm
Speaker: Prof. Annraoi de Paor
Title:    The career of Lugh Lámhfhada: magic and engineering in ancient Irish
folklore.  Abstract

23rd May - 2.30 pm
Speaker: Dr. Aaron Mccoy
Title:    Network traffic reduction in distributed interactive applications.

25th April - 10 am
Speaker: Mr. Michael Kelly, EirGrid
Title:    Integrating Wind Generation into the Irish System

18th April - 10 am
Speaker: Mr. William Dick, Chairman of Wavebob Ltd.

04th April - 10 am
Speaker: Mr. Larry Staudt, Director of the Renewable Energy Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology
Title:    Seminar 1: Generators for Wind Turbines/Seminar 2: Large Scale Electricity Storage

Electronic Engineering Departmental Seminars 2006

22nd August - 11am
Speaker: Ms Magda Sanchez
Title & Abstract to follow .

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08th August - 11am
Speaker: Mr Lukasz Lengier
Title: Distributed Tower Top Transceiver Systems for Mobile Communications

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11th July - 11am
Speaker: Mr Francesco Zanini
Title & Abstract to follow

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14th June - 3pm
Title: Emerging Photonics Sensor & Measurement Solutions for real-time, in-situ, industrial applications.
Speaker: Mr. Meng. Fergal Ward

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13th June - 11am
Speaker: Mr Guoyan Zhang
Title & Abstract to follow

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23rd May - 11am
Speaker: Dr Tim Cooper

 

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09th May - 11am
Speaker: Mr Stephen Ralph
Title: Reconfigurable Class-S Amplifier

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28th April - 3pm
Speaker: Mr Grzegorz Szczepkowski
Title: Novel oscillator architectures for wideband reconfigurable radio

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07th April - 3pm
Title: Synthesis Of Chaotic Maps With Piecewise Constant Invariant Densities
Speaker: Mr. Alan Rogers, Dept of Electronic Enginnering

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24th March - 3pm
Title: Control of switched reluctance machines
Speaker: Dr. Eoin Kennedy, Dept of Electronic Enginnering

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16th March 2006 - 2pm
Internal Research Workshop
Theme: 'Should all academics be doing Research?'

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10th March 2006 - 3pm
Title: Gaussian Process Prior Models for Electrical Load Forecasting
Speaker: Professor John Ringwood, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUIM abstract

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Electronic Engineering Departmental Seminars 2004 Full seminar archives available from rlawlor@eeng.may.ie

16 January 2004
Introduction to Independent Components Analysis
Prof. Barak A. Pearlmutter, Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth
abstract

13 February 2004
Business Engineering
Michael Maguire, CEO Orb Medical, A DCC Company
abstract

27 February 2004
Locating Discontinuities in Synthetic Speech using a Perceptually Orientated Approach
Dr. Joe Timoney, Dept of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth
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26 March 2004
Fibre Bragg grating sensors and possibilities of their application
Dr. Solomiya Lebid, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth
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23 April 2004
Title - Phase-Lock Loops (PLLs)
Brian Daniels, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth
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28 May 2004
Title - Support Vector Machines
Mark Clarke, Dundalk Institute of Technology
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11 June 2004
Title - Positive matrices and the internet
Dr. Robert Shorten, Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth
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24 Sept 2004
Title - Factor Graph Theory: A New Tool for Communication Receiver Design
Mark Flanagan, DSP Research Group, Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College dublin

This Seminar is sponsored by the IEEE UKRI Communications and Control Joint Chapter
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8 Oct 2004
Title - New Methods and Applications of Algorithmic Differentiation
Barak A. Pearlmutter
Hamilton Institute & Dept of Computer Science
National University of Ireland Maynooth
http://www-bcl.cs.may.ie/
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22 Oct 2004 at the earlier than usual time of 2 pm
Title - Optimisation of wave energy devices
Prof John Ringwood, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth
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19 Nov 2004
Title - Audio Time-Scale Modification: keeping control of the tempo
David Dorran, Digital Media Centre, DIT Aungier St.
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3 Dec 2004
Title - Grant Writing Workshop
abstract
Guest Speaker 1: Dr. Conor O'Carroll, CHIU
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Guest Speaker 2: Dr. Ronan Farrell, NUIM
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Electronic Engineering Departmental Seminars 2003

Full seminar archives available from rlawlor@eeng.may.ie

24 January 2003
An Introduction to Multicarrier Communications
Dr Conor Heneghan, Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin
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7 February 2003
Application of Voice Gender Conversion (VGC) to Speech Compression in Mobile Communications
Kenneth Humphreys, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth
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21 Feb 2003
Cortical Computation
Prof. Ronan Reilly, Dept. of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth
abstract

7 Mar 2003
Subspace Methods for Drum Transcription and Separation
Derry Fitzgerald, Music Technology Labortaory, Dublin Institute of Technology
abstract

21 Mar 2003
Microelectronics Research: What is it? Does it exist?
Dr Ronan Farrell, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth
abstract

4 Apr 2003
An Overview of the Research Activity in the Dept of Mathematics, NUI Maynooth
Dr Anthony O Farrell, Dept. of Mathematics, NUI Maynooth
abstract

25 Apr 2003
A Geometrical Overview of Multichannel Blind Equalization
Mr David Naughton, Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin
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23 May 2003
Functional brain imaging using Near-infrared Light
Ms Shirley Coyle, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth
abstract

26 Sept 2003
The Technology Transfer Programme for NUI Maynooth
Dr. Carol Barrett, Technology Transfer Officer, NUI Maynooth
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10 Oct 2003
Applications of Chaos (and not applications of Chaos Theory)
Mr Alan Rogers, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth
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7 Nov 2003
The development of the DEFT VLE
Mr Karl Monaghan, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth
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21 Nov 2003

Dr Sean Doherty, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

5 Dec 2003

Dr Sean McLoone, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

Electronic Engineering Departmental Seminars 2002

January 30th
Modelling for Control
Professor Doughlas Leith

February 13th
Oversampling, Trading Frequency for Performance
Dr Ronan Farrell

February 27th
Predictive Control for the Dairy Industry
Mr Tarek Khadir

March 13
Noninvasive Physiological Measurement Based on Optical Techniques
Dr Tomas Ward

March 27th
Something New about 2
Dr Robert Shorten/Mr Ollie Mason

April 17th
On the Relationship Between Matrix Pencil Eigenvalue Criteria and the Choice of Lyapunov Function for the Analysis of Second Oreder Swithching Systems
Mr Kai Wulff

May 1st
Nonlinear Identification using Local Model Networks
Dr Seamus McLoone

May 3rd
Pattern Classification and Chaos
Mr Alan Rogers
(Location to be arranged)

October 11th
Research Seminars - a Path to Inspiration (and some other stories !)
Prof. John Ringwood, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

October 25th
"Big Science" of Biotechnology and IT-Based Teaching: Lead edge stasis in Ireland?
Prof. Martin Downes, Biology Dept, NUI Maynooth

November 15th
New perspectives on old results
Dr Robert Shorten, Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth

November 22nd
An Overview of Research Activity in the Department of Experimental Physics, NUI Maynooth
Dr Michael Cawley, Department of Experimental Physics, NUI Maynooth

December 6th
Model Predictive Control: A Solution to Industrial control problems?
Dr Tarek Khadir, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

January 24th
An Introduction to Multicarrier Communications
Dr Conor Heneghan, Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin
abstract

January 24th
Application of Voice Gender Conversion (VGC) to Speech Compression in Mobile Communications
Kenneth Humphreys, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

February 21st
Cortical Computation
Prof. Ronan Reilly, Dept. of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth

March 7th
Subspace Methods for Drum Transcription and Separation
Derry Fitzgerald, Music Technology Labortaory, Dublin Institute of Technology

March 21st
Microelectronics Research: what is it? Does it exist?
Dr Ronan Farrell, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

April 4th
An Overview of the Research Activity in the Dept of Mathematics, NUI Maynooth
Dr Anthony O Farrell, Dept. of Mathematics, NUI Maynooth

April 25th
A Geometrical Overview of Multichannel Blind Equalization
Mr David Naughton, Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin

May 23rd
Functional brain imaging using Near-infrared Light
Ms Shirley Coyle, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

October 11th
Research Seminars - a Path to Inspiration (and some other stories !)
Prof. John Ringwood, Dept of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

October 25th
Big Science of Biotechnology and IT-Based Teaching: Lead edge stasis in Ireland?
Prof. Martin Downes, Biology Dept, NUI Maynooth

November 15th
New perspectives on old results
Dr Robert Shorten, Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth

November 22th
An Overview of Research Activity in the Department of Experimental Physics, NUI Maynooth
Dr Michael Cawley, Department of Experimental Physics, NUI Maynooth

December 6th
Model Predictive Control: A Solution to Industrial control problems?
Dr Tarek Khadir, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth

 

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