MACSI in the Media

Journals and Newspapers

• Why is it that my friends on Facebook seem to have more friends than I do? Irish Independent Special Supplement (1/5/2012)
• How do bookies work out the odds? Irish Independent (February 2012)
• Adam Maguire. Formula For Disaster? The Maths Behind The Crash The Irish Times Business Magazine (October 2011)
• Dick Ahlstrom. Better way for tracking viruses and rumours. Irish times (16/8/2011).
• Jimmy Woulfe. UL expert devises technique to predict spread of disease. Irish Examiner (16/8/2011).
• Invention to aid in fight against epidemics. Irish Independent (16/8/2011).
• Tool to predict flu epidemics. Irish Daily Star (16/8/2011).
• Ed Gerstner. Bubble nucleation: Stout fizz-ics. Nature Physics 7:449 (1/6/2011).
• Anne Sheridan. Scientist at UL help create the perfect creamy pint. Limerick Leader (17/3/2011).
• Barry Duggan. Scientists get to bottom of perfect pint. Irish Independent (15/3/2011).
• Caitriona Loughran. You can pour a top pint. Irish Daily Star (15/3/2011).
• Fiachra O Cionnaith. It's in the can: Mathematical formula holds secret to perfect Guinness head. Irish Examiner (14/3/2011).
• Making Maths Count.Irish Examiner (14/3/2011).
• Coming to a head. Economist (10/3/2011).

TV and Radio

• MACSI collaborator Mark McGuinness discusses the mathematical modelling of volcanic eruptions Radio New Zealand (9/5/2013).
• UL Researcher develops mathematical technique to better predict spread of epidemics. Morning Ireland, RTE Radio 1 (16/8/2011). Interview with Prof. James Gleeson.
• TV3 News (16/3/2011). Interviews with Prof. James Gleeson and William Lee.
• The perfect stout. Tom Dunne Show, Newstalk Radio (16/3/2011). Interview with Prof. James Gleeson.
• UL scientists crack code for perfect pint. Limerick Live 95 (14/3/2011). Interview with Prof. James Gleeson.

Websites

• Irish Mathematicians Solve The Guinness Sinking Bubble Problem. MIT Technology Review.
• Bubble nucleation in stout beers. The NSF multimedia gallery (27/7/2011).
• Spots 'n' Pimples. MIT Technology Review (26/3/2011).
• Gwendolyn Morgan. The Secret to a Frothy Stout. Live Science (17/3/2011).
• Devin Powell. A bit of fiber makes for sudsier beer. Science News (17/3/2011).
• John Roach. How to build a better Irish beer. MSNBC (16/3/2011).
• The Science of Stout Beer. Slashdot (15/3/2011).
• Marc Abrahams. Guinness bubble/widget followup: limerick. Improbable Research (14/3/2011).
• Kimberley Pollock. Mathematicians create a perfect head of creamy stout. Digital Journal (13/3/2011).
• Marc Abrahams. Beer bubble appreciation in Limerick. Improbable Research (12/3/2011).
• Eric Mack. Math whizzes recalculate beer-foaming equation. CNET (11/3/2011).
• Stephen Pincock. Paper leads to perfect beer head. ABC Science (11/3/2011).
• Jennifer Welsh. Mentos Is to Diet Coke as Coffee Filter Is to Guinness?!. Discoblog, Discover Magazine (10/3/2011).
• Dave Mosher. Tiny Fibers Put the Head on Stout Beer. Wired (9/3/2011).
• The Physics of Froth. Babbage Podcast, Economist (9/3/2011).
• Joseph Milton. The widget-free way to foamy stout. Nature News (8/3/2011).
• Mathematicians Reinvent The Beer Widget. MIT Technology Review (4/3/2011).
• Philip Ball. A Turnstile for Atoms. Nature Nanozone (20/10/2005).