We are deeply grateful to his family for allowing us associate the name of Prof. Eugene Lawler with the Graduate School of Computing. At its launch in November 2007, Prof. Jan Karel Lenstra summarised the enormous academic heritage created by Eugene Lawler; the citations from his many colleagues are a testimony to his genius and his generosity of spirit. 

The Eugene Lawler Graduate School of Computing has created a strong research culture in computing, mathematics & physics at WIT. This applies to the work of individual faculty members and to the activities of associated research centres:
Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG)
Information Systems, Organisations & Learning Research Centre (INSYTE)
Automotive Control Group (ACG)
Centre for eLearning Technologies Research (WeLearnT)
Optics Research Group (ORG)
Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC).
Multimedia Research Cluster (MRC)

In the coming academic year a set of taught postgraduate programmes will be offered in fulltime and in part-time (block release) mode. As of autumn 2009, these programmes will migrate to a 2-year model consisting of a year devoted to taught modules and the commencement of the research proposal, followed a 1-year placement in a designated research environment.

Applications are welcome from students wishing to pursue part-time and fulltime research to M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels. Intending students are strongly advised to engage in discussion with research staff prioir to submitting a formal research application form. A set of research support modules is provided for incoming students.

The Eugene Lawler Graduate School is organising a two day conference for Irish students on taught M.Sc. programmes in computing related subjects on behalf of the Irish Graduate School of Computing. The conference will be held at WIT on September 3 -  4, 2008.

The Eugene Lawler Graduate School of Computing is organising Ph.D. Summer School on Scientific Computing  on November 17 – 21 in cooperation with Moscow State University (MSU), Saint Petersburg State University , Poznan Technical University and the Nanjing University of Informatics, Science and Technology (NUIST).

Le gach de-ghuí,
Dr. Mícheál Ó hÉigeartaigh