The Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory is a dynamic multidisciplinary research community advancing scientific knowledge through mathematics and computation.
Dr Scott Rickard, Director of UCD CASL
Established in 2006, CASL occupies a 2,500m2 purpose-built facility where 30 of Ireland’s leading Principal Investigators and more than 170 postdocs and postgrads, from the UCD Schools of Business, Computer Science and Informatics, Electrical, Electronic & Mechanical Engineering, Geological Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Medicine and Medical Sciences, come together to collaborate. Director Dr Scott Rickard, the MIT and Princeton-educated mathematician, says “It’s a flagship, ground breaking facility in Ireland and still quite rare internationally, too. Interdisciplinary research usually consists of small groups working on very focused themes. There is simply nothing of the scale of CASL.”
UCD CASL builds on the investment in established research clusters, such as the Claude Shannon Institute and the Adaptive Information Cluster, as well as Science Foundation Ireland and PRTLI Cycle 3-funded Principal Investigators (PIs) and their teams. In addition to funding from UCD, CASL PIs and their teams have secured funding in excess of €50m from a variety of state agencies and external sources over the last five years.
A series of scientific programmes are underway in areas identified as being of key importance nationally and internationally, including:
