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16th September – Culture Night 2016

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies will participate in Culture Night again this year on Friday 16th September. Culture Night at Dunsink Observatory Culture Night at the Geophysics Section, School of Cosmic Physics (5 Merrion Square) Culture Night is… Read More

3rd August – DIAS to Develop Revolutionary New Detector for Astronomy

With funding from Science Foundation Ireland, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies is developing a new type of detector that will enormously enhance our ability to study the most distant galaxies in the Universe as well as star… Read More

School of Theoretical Physics Vacancy: Post-doctoral Scholarship

The School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies invites applications for a post-doctoral scholarship in theoretical physics. Applicants are welcome from all fields of theoretical physics; however, preference will be given to candidates with a proven… Read More

Wednesday 6th July 2016: STP Seminar

Title: Weighted Information and Weighted Entropy Speaker: Yuri Suhov (Penn State University) Abstract: A standard definition of information and entropy involves probabilities of outcomes and events and makes no distinction between outcomes with equal probabilities (a context-free approach)…. Read More

Thursday 30th June 2016: STP Seminar

Title: A “Hartle-Hawking” Wave Function in Casual Set Quantum Gravity Speaker: Sumati Surya (Raman Research Institute) Abstract: The 2-dimensional version of causal set quantum gravity has proved to be a useful testing ground for the full theory. It… Read More

11th-12th June 2016 – Solarfest at Dunsink Observatory

Solarfest 2016 is a two-day event about solar astronomy taking place from 11th to 12th June at Dunsink Observatory. It is organised by the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies in conjunction with the School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS…. Read More

18th May 2016 – School of Theoretical Physics Statutory Public Lecture “Beauty and Truth in Mathematics and Physics”

Prof. Arthur Jaffe (Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science at Harvard University) recently gave the Statutory Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS. The lecture was held on Wednesday 18th May in the… Read More

9th to 13th May – 2016 National Data Centre (NDC) Workshop

The 2016 NDC Workshop is being organized by the Provisional Technical Secretariat (PTS) of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in cooperation with DIAS and the Government of Ireland. It will be held in Dublin,… Read More

16th April 2016 – Earthquake near coast of Ecuador

A major M7.8 earthquake occurred near the coast of Ecuador on 16th April 2016 at 23:58 UTC (18:58 local time). DATE : 16 April 2016 ORIGIN TIME : 23:58 37s UTC LAT/LONG : 0.371° North / 79.940° West… Read More

15th April 2016 – Earthquake on the island of Kyushu, Japan

A major M7.0 earthquake occurred on the island of Kyushu, Japan on 15th April 2016 at 16:25 UTC (01:25 on 16th April local time). A number of aftershocks have been recorded. A tsunami alert was issued for Japanese… Read More