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Summer Scholarships

The SFI Centre for Research Training in Genomics Data Science has 4 summer scholarships available for undergraduates in 2024. Details of the scholarships and how to apply can be found here.

Please note the closing date for applications is 31^st May.

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Previous Summer Scholarship Projects

2023

Student	Supervisor	Project Title
Paul Cassidy	Mark Howard	Automorphisms of Finite Groups Automorphisms of Finite Groups Automorphisms of Finite Groups‌Automorphisms of Finite Groups‌
Monirul Choudhury	James Cruickshank	Symplectic Graphs Over a Finite Local Ring ‌
Tomás Gillanders	Giuseppe Zurlo	Twisting Instabilities of Stretched Elastomer Rods
Enda Harrigan	Mark Howard	Multiple Control X Gate Synthesis ‌
Sean Janson	Rachel Quinlan	Orders of Diamond Alternating Sign Matrices
Sasha Northrup	Emil Skoldberg	Edge Ideals of Circulant Graphs
Maciej Stec	Kevin Jennings	Latin Squares‌
Mark Tobin	Andrew Simpkin	Traffic volume data modelling

2022

Student	Supervisor	Project Title
David Cormican Dmytro Lyubka	Graham Ellis	‌Lattices, Sphere Packing and Modular Forms Lattices and Modular Forms
Katrina Watson	Rachel Quinlan	Alternating Sign and Sign-Restricted Matrices
James Nohilly	Mark Howard	Quantum Circuit Simplification and Extraction
James Hayes	Cathal Seoighe	Peto's Paradox
Robin Pfeiffer	Niall Madden	Physics Informed Neural Networks for Numerical Analysis
David Action	Michael Tuite	Measuring Quantum Tunnelling Dwell Time Using Larmor Precession
Niamh Newman	Martin Meere	Solving the Non Linear Schrodinger Equation using multiple methods
Romain Gadioux	Martin Meere	Using Bäcklund Tranformations to Find Soliton Solutions
Blythe Stewart	Siobhan Cleary	Does tumour parity have an effect on the ability to detect allele-specific expre

2021

Student	Supervisor	Project Title
Lijun Zou	Ronan Egan	Quantum codes via Hermitian self-orthogonal codes over F4
Michael McGloin	Rachel Quinlan	Minimally Primitive Graphs with a Non-cut Arc
Anton Sohn	Rachel Quinlan	Minimally Primitive Graphs with a Non-cut Arc
Maeve Dunne	Davood Roshan	Modelling COVID-19 in Ireland
Sean Tobin	Giuseppe Zurlo	The Chain Fountain
Tom Jackson	Niall Madden	Modelling differential equations using FEniCS and the finite element method
Jordan McCarney	Mark Howard	CHSH Game Using Convex Geometry Presentation and Report
David Flanagan	Aaron Golden	Observing Pulsars using I-LOFAR

2020

Student	Supervisor	Project Title
Paul Armstrong	Graham Ellis	Using Topological Data Analysis to study Time Series data
Matt O’Reilly	Graham Ellis	Using Topological Data Analysis to study Time Series data
Catherine Higgins	Graham Ellis	Using Topological Data Analysis to study Time Series data
Sean Monahan	Andrew Simpkin	Statistical Analysis of COVID-19 Outbreak in Ireland
Thomas Hayes	John Newell	Matching athletes using Olympic data
Jack Collins	Niall Madden	Mathematical models applied to the COVID-19 pandemic
Dylan Buckley	Martin Meere	Applied Mathematics
Shane Doyle	Petri Piiroinen	Statistical Modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic

2019

Student	Supervisor	Project Title
Amanda Forde	Michel Destrade	Padé approximants for dispersion curves of elastic waves
Griffen Small	Michael Tuite	Dirac's relativistic wave equation
Adam Callaghan	John Burns	Homogeneous Metrics on Spheres
Deanna Dooley	Graham Ellis	Metric Spaces in Cryptography
Paul Costello	Niall Madden	Numerical Methods of Solving Schrödinger’s Equation
Laura Feehan	Rachel Quinlan	Connections between Group Theory and the visual Arts - The wallpaper groups
Mario Gaspar Quarenta	Micheal Tuite	Fine and hyperfine splitting of Hydrogen spectrum
George Stavrou	Martin Meere	Numerical Integration and Solution Visualization for some Reaction Diffusion Equations