2009 Press Releases

“Marconi - if he played football, we would have claimed him”
08.12.2009

“Marconi - if he played football, we would have claimed him” is the title of a lecture to be delivered at UCC on Thursday, December 10th by Professor M. Peter Kennedy, Professor of Microelectronic Engineering Vice-President for Research Policy & Support, UCC.
Guglielmo Marconi, Entrepreneur, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. In this presentation to mark the centenary of the award, we recall his fascinating story, and the critical role that Cork played on his journey of discovery and innovation.

Professor Peter Kennedy is Professor and was founding Head of the Department of Microelectronic Engineering, UCC. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (2003-2004) and is currently Vice-President for Research Policy & Support. Prof. Kennedy received the BE (Electronics) degree from UCD and the MS and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He has over 200 research publications in the fields of oscillator design, hysteresis, neural networks, nonlinear dynamics, chaos communication, and mixed-signal test. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1998 for leadership in nonlinear circuits research and education and has received many prestigious awards including Best Paper (International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications), the 88th IEE Kelvin Lecture, IEEE Millennium and Golden Jubilee Medals, and the inaugural Royal Irish Academy Parsons Award in Engineering Sciences.  In 2004, Prof. Kennedy was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy and was made a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland by Presidential Invitation in 2005.

The lecture will be delivered at 1pm in G2, Kane Building and is part of a series of lectures celebrating 10 years of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) in UCC.

Picture:  Professor Peter Kennedy

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