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Awards at the Royal Irish Academy - Jennifer Whelan wins Hamilton Prize in Mathematics
31 October 2002

Jennifer Whelan

At a ceremony held in the Royal Irish Academy on Wednesday 16 October, Jennifer Whelan, a final year student on the BSc in Mathematical Sciences degree programme at DCU was awarded the Hamilton Prize in Mathematics worth €1,000. Jennifer, was nominated 'best DCU student' by her lecturers on the basis of her marks in six modules in which she achieved the highest marks over a period of two years.

The Royal Irish Academy has obtained sponsorship from DepFa Bank Europe plc, a German financial institution with headquarters in the IFSC in Dublin, to provide prizes annually to students of Mathematics in each of the nine Irish universities and to fund an annual lecture, the Hamilton lecture, to be given by a distinguished international mathematician. The sponsorship is to be provided for the next five years. The student prize will be called the Hamilton Prize in Mathematics and is worth €1,000 to each student. It is hoped that these initiatives will form part of a new range of activities to celebrate Dublin-born Sir William Rowan Hamilton's life and contribution to mathematics.

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