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Computer Science
Prof. Padraig Cunningham, Drs. Tim Fernando and Carl Vogel were the TCD
representatives who hosted the 14th Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
in College in September.
French
Prof. Barbara Wright gave a lecture to the Académie des Belles-Lettres,
Sciences et Arts de La Rochelle in June on Eugène Fromentin, peintre
de l'Algérie: Exercices de synesthésie at the Fromentin
retrospective exhibition in La Rochelle. In July she read a paper on The
Local World as the Domestic Exotic, in the Work of the Painter-Writer,
Jules Breton at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
in London.
Genetics
The European Group on Life Sciences, established by the EU research Commissioner
Philippe Busquin in 2000 to meet his need for high level advice on the
life sciences and technologies, met in TCD in July.
Geography
Postgraduate research student Julius Lejju Bunny's poster presentation
was voted best poster, out of 180 others, at the XVI International Quaternary
Association (INQUA) Congress in Nevada. Based on his research, the poster
'Non-pollen palymorph based reconstructions of vegetation history in western
Uganda', Julius' success will be acknowledged with a notice and photograph
in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science, published by
John Wiley and Sons.
Germanic Studies
Dr. Tim Jackson's book, Typus und Poetik. Studien zur Bedeutungsvermittlung
in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters, has been published by Universitätsverlag
Winter, Heidelberg.
Dr. Gilbert Carr gave papers Figures of Repetition: Continuity and Discontinuity
in Karl Kraus's Satire at the University of Edinburgh Conference, 'Continuities
and Discontinuities in the Austrian Twentieth Century'; and Otto Weininger:
Time and Character at the
University of Sussex conference 'Otto Weininger's "Sex and Character":
A centenary re-evaluation' earlier this year.
Prof. Eda Sagarra gave the annual lecture to the Gottfried Keller Society in Zurich in October on Blackmailing Mothers: Gotthelf's novel Anne Baebi Jowaeger. She was a member of the Peer Review Group for the Research Centres of the Danish Research Foundation in 2003 and has been invited to act as an assessor for the German Federal Funding Programme: German-Israeli Project Co-operation in 2003/4 and also for German Studies in the state of Lower Saxony in 2004.
Irish
Prof. Cathal Ó Háinle gave an invited lecture on Literary
aspects of "Cín lae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúilleabháin"
at a symposium held by the Irish Texts Society (ITS) in November at UCC
to celebrate Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin's writings
and their publication in 1936-7 by the ITS.
Irish School of Ecumenics
Dr. Cecelia Clegg co-presented, with David Porter (Director of ECONI),
the paper From Violence to Peace: Reflections from Northern Ireland at
the British Irish Association of Mission Studies conference in Edinburgh
in June. She also presented a case study on Catholic peacebuilding in
Northern Ireland at an international conference of Catholic Peacebuilders
which in Washington DC, organised by the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace
Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.
Dr. Geraldine Smyth co-ordinated and launched the First International Dominican Symposium on Mission in Tallaght in August. Dr. Smyth was the Discussant on papers by Terence McCaughey and Gladys Ganiel a conference organised by the Institute of British-Irish Studies, UCD in May on Old Structures, New Beliefs: Religion, Community and Politics in Contemporary Ireland in the section on 'Alternative Formulations of Religion and Politics'".
Dr. Gillian Wylie gave a paper on trafficking in women at a conference
on
'Migrant Women Transforming Ireland' held in College last term.
Prof. John D'Arcy May's book Transcendence and Violence: The Encounter
of Buddhist, Christian and Primal Traditions was published by Continuum,
New York/London, 2003. He delivered a paper on Human Dignity, Human Rights
and Religious Pluralism: Buddhist and Christian Perspectives at an international
conference on religion and globalisation, Payap University, Chiang Mai,
Thailand during the Summer.
Ms. Yvonne Naylor co-led a training programme on conflict management for a group of university students, professional teachers, doctors, social workers, workers and volunteers from other NGOs in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in March. This training was organised and funded by Project Northern Ireland, a non-profit NGO that develops work with young people through a variety of activities and projects as well as a University Certificate course in Leadership and Developmental Youth Work.
Ms. Naylor's educational pack for children and young adults (ages 9-14) Who We Are - Dealing With Difference was published by ISE, Belfast, 2003. At the Methodist World Mission Conference, Conflict and the Struggle for Reconciliation, held in Derbyshire she co-lead five worships on the theme of conflict in Northern Ireland.
Music
Dr. Jacqueline Waeber gave two guest seminars on early romantic piano music at NUI Maynooth and at Queen's University Belfast in November. She also presented a paper on Musique ancienne and genre in Ch.-V. Alkan's piano music at the conference Early music - Text and Context in Jagellonian University, Krakow in September and delivered a guest seminar on Ch.-V. Alkan in UCD in October.
An audio archive, comprising records, tapes, and radio recordings (mainly of 'classical' music) has been created. Material is held solely for educational purposes. Anyone interested in this archive and how to gain access to material held on CD-R should write to Simon Trezise, e-mail: strezise@tcd.ie
Philosophy
Prof. David Berman has completed an IRCHSS senior fellowship while Dr.
Lilian Alweiss is beginning an IRCHSS research fellowship and Dr. Brian
Garvey is in the middle of a two year IRCHSS post-doctoral award.
Staff publications include: Dr. Lilian Allweiss, The World Unclaimed. A Challenge to Heidegger's Critique of Husserl, Ohio University Press; Prof. Berman edited (with Patricia O'Riordan) The Irish Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment (6 Vols of writings of Irish Philosophers from the 1690's to the 1750's) Thoemmes Press; Prof. William Lyons has had two books reissued, Emotion by Cambridge University Press, and the Disappearance of Introspection, MIT Press; Dr. Paul O'Grady, Relativism, Acumen Publishing.
Prof. Lyons delivered two invited lectures in Antwerp, Dr. Vasilis Politis gave an invited lecture in Oxford and Dr. Richard Gray delivered a paper in Turin.
Physics
Prof. Denis Weaire has been elected Vice-President of the Academia Europaea.
Statistics
Mr. Eamonn Mullins' book, Statistics for the Quality Control Chemistry
Laboratory, was published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in September.
It is based on material prepared for in-house short courses for analytical
scientists and for the postgraduate Diploma in Quality Improvement run
by the Department of Statistics.
Dr. Michael Stuart's book, An Introduction to Statistical Analysis for Business and Industry, published by Arnold in August, is intended as a text for beginning students in the areas of Business Studies and Management Science.
Zoology
Dr. Julian Reynolds, after organising the first Thematic Conference of
Craynet, an EU Specialist Network, at Kilkenny in June, has been invited
to be the Visiting Professor at the University of Poitiers CNRS Crustacean
Genetics Laboratory for two terms in 2004.
Prof. Celia Holland was the co-rapporteur for the WHO Informal Consultation
on
the Use of Praziquantel during Pregnancy/Lactation and Albendazole/Mebendazole
in children under 24 months. Important new recommendations about the treatment
of schistosomiasis and geohelminths have been included in the recently
published report.
Dr. Nicola Marples has been appointed Consulting Editor for the major international journal Animal Behaviour, and a Council Member of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. She was also invited to be a Reporting Member of the Research Group of The Federation of Zoological Gardens of Great Britain and Ireland.
Dr. Jim Wilson organised a symposium on Ecosystem Properties and Network Analysis at the September ERF Meeting in Seattle, and has recently returned from the first Workshop of an EU-INTAS project, held in Tbilisi and Batumi, Georgia, studying Biological Indicators in the Black Sea.
Dr. Ken Irvine is investigating the Effect of Pollutants on Ecosystem Health in Surface Waters under the EU 6th Framework Programme project, complementing Dr. Martin Robinson's ongoing NDP supported research into Supporting Measures for Fisheries Development.
Dr. Paula Murphy is the recipient of an SFI Investigator Programme Grant Gene Expression Analysis and 3-D Computer Modelling of Wnt Signalling Pathways in the Developing Limb and Face of Mouse Embryos. Dr Mark Brown was awarded a HEA North-South Programme for Collaborative Research grant to study the conservation genetics of Irish bees and establish an island-wide conservation data base for these animals. Both of these projects will take advantage of the new molecular facilities that are currently being constructed in the Zoology Building.
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