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The Hamilton Mathematics Institute (HMI) is a mathematics Institute in Trinity College Dublin named in honour of William Rowan Hamilton who was Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin. The HMI was originally created in 2003 to mark the bicentenary of Hamilton's birth and launched in 2005. It aims to improve the international profile of Irish mathematics, to raise public awareness of mathematics and to support local mathematical research through workshops, conferences and a visitor programme.

Structure
The institute's founding and current director is Samson Shatashvili. There is an advisory board of prominent mathematicians, including Fields medalists Maxim Kontsevich and Andrei Okounkov. Previous advisory board members included Michael Atiyah, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Ludvig Faddeev; John T. Lewis was an patron of the HMI before its launch. The day-to-day management of the HMI is conducted by an executive committee drawn from the School of Mathematics in Trinity College Dublin.

Activities
The institute regularly organises events and hosts visiting academics. The Simons Foundation has provided support for visiting professors, postdoctoral fellow and scholars. Visiting professors have included Anton Alekseev, Mikhail Kapranov and Francis Brown.

The institute hosts a regular series of HMI Workshops on specialist topics including integrable systems, lattice methods and geometric computation. It has also been involved in the organisation of events including the International Workshop on Topological Quantum Computing and William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop. It has also supported student events such as the Hamilton School on Mathematical Physics. In 2023, Erik Verlinde was a visiting professor and delivered a series of lectures on Operator Algebras and Black Hole Information.

The HMI has also held events in memory of notable mathematicians and physicists. In 2005 the HMI organised the John Lewis lecture series with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where Jurg Frohlich delivered the lectures. Similarly, the 2006 lecture series was delivered by S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan on Random Walks and Large Deviations. In 2006 they also jointly organised a symposium on the work of Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh. On September 27, 2019, the institute hosted a conference, which was dedicated to Michael Atiyah.

The HMI has hosted outreach events, such as the first Team Maths Final organised by the Irish Mathematics Teachers association.

In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine the HMI offered three research internships to students displaced by the war.