The 2015 IQF meeting recently took place in the School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS from 27th to 29th May. There were 75 participants in total and more details can be found on the conference website.

On 29th May 2015 at 07:00:08 UTC an earthquake of magnitude Mw6.8 occurred on the Alaska Peninsula  with the epicentral location 56.74N, 153.73W.

2015 Irish Quantum Foundations Meeting – 27th to 29th May 2015 The 2015 IQF meeting will be hosted by the School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS and will take place from 27th to 29th May inclusive. More details can… Read More

A major M7.3 earthquake occurred in Nepal on 12th May at 07:05 UTC (12:50 local time), 80km east of Kathmandu.  This is an aftershock of the Mag 7.8 event of 25th April 2015.

A major M7.9 earthquake occurred in Nepal on 25th April at 06:11 UTC (11:56 local time), 80km northwest of Kathmandu.  Many large aftershocks >M5 have been recorded by the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN). The fatalities to date… Read More

There will be a partial solar eclipse on the morning of 20th March 2015 with its maximum at 9:29 GMT when the sun will be 90% covered by the moon.

2015 Irish Quantum Foundations Meeting – 27th to 29th May 2015 The 2015 IQF meeting will be hosted by the School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS and will take place from 27th to 29th May inclusive. More details can… Read More

The Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for Science has been awarded to one of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies professors of theoretical physics, Professor Werner Nahm.

A paper in the journal Science on 23 January 2015, carries news of three very high-energy objects that have just been discovered in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Kinsale Community College, one of the participating schools in the DIAS Seismology in Schools Outreach Programme, recently won the Geological Survey of Ireland prize for the best geological project at the BT Young Scientist Technology Exhibition 2015.