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Monday 29 May 2017 – DIAS Press Release on Eucharia Meehan’s appointment as Registrar and CEO of DIAS and admittance to RIA

Dr. Eucharia Meehan has been appointed as Registrar and CEO of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), the internationally-renowned institute for world-leading basic research and scholarship. Dr. Meehan previously held the position of Director of the Irish… Read More

Thursday 18 May 2017 – Appointment of New Registrar at DIAS

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Eucharia Meehan to the position of Registrar following the retirement of Cecil Keaveney. Dr Meehan has more than 20 years of leadership experience across… Read More

Symposium: New Approaches to Brittonic Historical Linguistics

Taking place from 31 August – 1 September 2017. Programme now available here Abstracts available here

Andrea Licciardi wins outstanding Student presentation at EGU 2017

During the Geodynamics division meeting at the 2017 EGU general assembly, that took place in Vienna on April 25, DIAS former PhD-student, Andrea Licciardi has been awarded with the Outstanding Student Presentation and Pico (OSPP award). Andrea presented… Read More

DIAS Research Forum 2018 – Friday 11th May

An inter-disciplinary research forum has been scheduled for Friday 11 May 2018, 3-5pm at Burlington Road. The forum is intended to be an informal event that provides post-doctoral scholars and PhD students with the opportunity to share and… Read More

Friday 7th April : DIAS astronomer wins ERC Advanced Grant with SFI support – no EASY feat

Professor Tom Ray of the  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) has been awarded one of the European Research Council’s (ERC) prestigious Advanced Grants to study the birth of stars and planets.  Tom  is an Irish astronomer whose… Read More

2017-4-10 – Seminar by Prof. Tarje Nissen-Meyer

10 April 2017 – Seminar When: 16:00 on Monday, 10th April 2017 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Prof. Tarje Nissen-Meyer Title: Occam or not? On the interaction of waves with structure.

2017-4-5 – Seminar by Prof. Heiner Igel

5 April 2017 – Seminar When: 16:00 on Wednesday, 5th April 2017 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Prof. Heiner Igel (Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Germany) Title: Earth’s Rock and Roll: Rotational Motions in Seismology.

Monday 27th March: STP Seminar – “Yang-Baxter sigma-models, conformal twists & noncommutative Yang-Mills”

Title: Yang-Baxter sigma-models, conformal twists & noncommutative Yang-Mills Speaker: Eoin Ó Colgáin (University of Surrey) Abstract: The Yang-Baxter σ-model is a systematic way to generate integrable deformations of AdS5×S5. We recast the deformations as seen by open strings, where the… Read More

New insights into how continuous seismic signals announce an eruption

In the recently published Nature Geoscience paper a diverse group of scientists based at DIAS and other research institutes in Ireland and Iceland developed a new understanding of seismic signals prior to an eruption. The focus of the… Read More