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News & Events
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Explore the News, visits, awards & life events in MNMT-Dublin
Conferences
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2nd AET Symposium on SMART and ACSM Manufacturing (AETS2019)
AETS2019 was held at UCD on August 16-17 in Dublin, Ireland.
News & Awards
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Professor Fengzhou Fang awarded Prestigious Honorary Doctorate
On December 17th 2024, Professor Fengzhou Fang was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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The 73rd CIRP General Assembly Concluded Successfully
The 73rd CIRP General Assembly was successfully held from August 18th to 24th, 2024, in the coastal city of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Guest visit by Prof. Keiji Nagai, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Guest Visit of Prof. Keiji Nagai, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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MNMT-Dublin as the Collaborative Partner of EyeVu Project
MNMT-Dublin is in collaboration with Tympany Medical, who will be leading the EyeVU project.
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Collaboration with Prof. Wenxin Wang on Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Project
Congratulations to Dr Nan Zhang, as project co-applicant, succesfully granted a SFI project
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Minister for Science and Technology of China Visited MNMT-Dublin
Minister for Science and Technology of China visited the UCD MNMT-Dublin
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MNMT-Dublin Forum I: Brittle Materials Manufacturing
MNMT-Dublin Forum on Brittle Materials Manufacturing was held in Clare, Ireland
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Congratulations to Haoyang Zhang for his Moldex 3D innovation talent award
Haoyang Zhang received the Moldex 3D innovation talent award.
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Towards Mass Production for Precision Micro / Nano Devices
"Our Research focuses on how to design, develop and manufacture small and precision components. "
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Congratulations to Lorcan O’Toole for his IMechE Project Award
Lorcan O’Toole received the IMechE Project Award in Mechanical Engineering at UCD.
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CIRP President, professor Bert Lauwers and professor Gerald Byrne visited MNMT-Dublin
November 10, 2022
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Industrial Visit to Nypro Healthcare Dublin
Prof Fengzhou Fang visited Nypro Healthcare Dublin
Symposiums
MNMT-Dublin Symposium IX: Origin and Development of Vision Correction Discipline
Dr Arthur Cummings was invited to give a lecture at the series of MNMT-Dublin Symposium on Origin and Development of Vision Correction discipline.
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MNMT-Dublin Symposium VIII: Fundamental Limits of Mobile Phone Cameras
Prof Chris Dainty was invited to give a lecture at the series of MNMT-Dublin Symposium on Fundamental Limits of Mobile Phone Cameras.
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MNMT-Dublin Symposium VII: A Critical Look at the Foundations of Interferometric Surface Topography Measurement
Dr. Peter de Groot was invited to give a lecture at MNMT-Dublin Symposium on the topic of interferometric surface topography measurement.
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MNMT-Dublin Symposium VI: The Interactions of Nanoparticles with Living Systems
Professor Kenneth A. Dawson was invited to give a lecture in the MNMT-Dublin Symposium on how to understand the interaction of nanoparticles with living systems.
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MNMT-Dublin Symposium V: Microfluidics-enabled Bioassay Automation
Prof. J. Ducrée, the founding director of Ireland’s first Fraunhofer Project Centre for Embedded Bioanalytical Systems at Dublin City University (DCU), was invited to give a talk on design for manufacturing for microfluidics-enabled bioassay automation.
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MNMT-Dublin Symposium IV:Eye Modeling for Custom Contact Lens and Intraocular Lens Design
Prof A. Goncharov was invited to give a seminar on eye modeling for custom contact lens and Intra-ocular lens design
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MNMT-Dublin Symposium III: Biomaterials Research
Prof. Kenneth Stanton from the UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering delivered a lecture on his work in biomaterials which has spanned over twenty years.
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MNMT-Dublin Symposium II: Integration and Packaging of Photonic Devices
Prof. Peter O’Brien from the Tyndall National Institute was invited to give a lecture on the overview of photonic and electronic packaging technologies developed at Tyndall.
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MNMT-Dublin Symposium I: Advanced Optical Imaging
Dr. brian vohnsen from the ucd school of physics was invited to hold a seminar covering the understanding of the human eye and retina and wavefront sensing and adaptive optics imaging at the centre of micro/nano manufacturing technology (mnmt-dublin).
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Life Events
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