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The Data Innovation Research Institute was open between 2015 and 2021. This page shows the Institute’s past work. It is not monitored or updated.

Nobel Prize Physics Laureates

LIGO scientists celebrate Nobel Prize

3 October 2017

Cardiff University’s Gravitational Physics Group are celebrating the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne.

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GW4 data intensive workshop

18 July 2017

GW4 series of workshops explores challenges and opportunities in data intensive research.

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Gravitational waves provide clues to how black holes are born

1 June 2017

Cardiff University researchers help international team observe giant pair of spinning black holes over three billion light years away

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Supercomputing Wales

27 April 2017

A new £15m supercomputing programme of investment has been announced by universities across Wales

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Cyber security centre of excellence to open at Cardiff University

24 April 2017

Cardiff University and Airbus launch first centre of its kind in Europe to tackle cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure

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Brexit hate crime

9 February 2017

Social Data Science Lab awarded £250,000 grant to set up centre to monitor Brexit-related hate crime on social media

Getting to grips with big data

19 January 2017

First Breakfast Briefing of 2017 tackles big data

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Meeting of 'big data' alliance

5 December 2016

Government, business and academia gather in Cardiff for launch of international research alliance.

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Social Data Science Lab awarded Big Data grant

14 November 2016

The new grant from the Economic and Social Research Council will fund the core activities of the Lab over the next 3 years.

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Space-time ripples detected for the very first time

11 February 2016

University scientists open a new window into the Universe as gravitational waves are detected for the first time