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I'm teaching on the new BSc in Energy's Sustainable Development module in Week 6 of term. This is an innovative module, representing a new collaboration between all UL's faculties. Check out the module blog here, and a few student blogs here and here.

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February 5th, 2010

Sustainable Development Module Blog

I'm teaching on the new BSc in Energy's Sustainable Development module in Week 6 of term. This is an innovative […]

February 5th, 2010

Nuclear Power in Ireland

Here are some notes (google doc) from the talk I gave at NUI, Galway, yesterday. Thanks to the Lit and Deb […]

February 3rd, 2010

What I *meant* to say was...

Technical difficulties and, frankly, my own stupidity, prevented me making three points I thought were important on Primetime last night. Image […]

February 3rd, 2010

International Monetary Economics Lecture 2

This lecture builds on last week's introduction to international monetary economics by introducing a basic macroeconomic framework based on national […]

February 1st, 2010

Fintan O'Toole will visit UL tomorrow

Tomorrow Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times Deputy Editor, Author, Angry chap, and all-around ledge-bag will be giving a seminar from 4.30 […]

February 1st, 2010

Financial Economics Lecture 4

This lecture is all about introducing you to something you won't find anywhere else--the stock market from a physicists viewpoint. […]

February 1st, 2010

Financial Economics Lecture 3

This lecture introduced you to some interesting terminology and a few pieces of notation we'll use throughout the lecture series. […]

January 29th, 2010

Be smart: Jobs first, smart economy second

The smart economy is a nice idea, perhaps even a good idea. But like most nice ideas, when exposed to […]

January 29th, 2010

Debt, the destroyer of worlds?

EC6012 students should take a look at this article on debt and trade deficits, on how the US, with a […]

January 27th, 2010

International Monetary Economics Lecture 1

Here are the lecture notes in 2*2 format. Check out the course pack, and the course outline, on the course […]

January 26th, 2010

EC4024, Financial Economics Lecture 2

Here are the notes for lecture 2, Here are the slides in 2*2 format. Apologies that there's no recording. Please […]

January 26th, 2010

Practical Tips for Mathematical Modeling: Look first for Beauty

Here are the notes for tomorrow's PhD student talk on beauty in mathematical modeling. I'll bring a handout to class […]

January 14th, 2010

New Teaching Experiment: Iphone apps for education

I'm always trying new bits of technology to see if I can get better at teaching. Thanks to Bernie Goldbach […]

January 13th, 2010

Elderly Take Over!

This headline from the Irish Times, for some reason, gives me images of grannies in camouflage with AK47s and grenades […]

January 10th, 2010

Margins of Viability

Here's a presentation of a paper I've now spent 3 years writing, re-writing, editing, and tweaking. It was presented at […]

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