Donegall Lectureship at Trinity College Dublin

The Donegall Lecturership at Trinity College Dublin is one of two endowed mathematics positions at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the other being the Erasmus Smith's Chair of Mathematics. The Donegall (sometimes spelled Donegal) Lectureship was endowed in 1688 by Arthur Chichester, and for much of its history the Donegall lectureship was awarded to a mathematician as an additional honour which came with a supplementary income.[1] Since 1967 the lectureship has been awarded each year to a leading international scientist who visits the College and gives talks, including a public lecture called the Donegall lecture.[2][3]

List of Donegall lecturers
gollark: I'm not sure this is true. It should still be more efficient to have a *few* humans "preprocess" things for robotics of some kind than to have it entirely done by humans.
gollark: Those are computationally hard problems, but I would be really surprised if there wasn't *some* fast heuristic way to do them.
gollark: Except that people are somewhat inconsistent about how much inconvenience/time/whatever is worth how much money.
gollark: I'm not sure you can reasonably call their preferences *wrong*.
gollark: People are very happy to ignore some amount of extra less tangible/obvious problems for lower costs in a lot of situations.

References
  1. Obituary of Timothy Gayleard Murphy Irish Math. Society Bulletin, No 82, Winter 2018, pp. 4–10
  2. the dublin university calendar for the year 1877
  3. Mathematics at TCD: The eighteenth century 400 years of mathematics by T. D. Spearman
  4. William Clements (1733-1763)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.