24 June 2013 – Seminar: SEG‘s 2013  Honorary Lecturer for Europe When: 5pm on Monday, 24 June 2013 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Marion Jegen (Geomar/Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany)Title:… Read More

Joint Inversion – The Way Forward to a Comprehensive Earth Model   A seminar by SEG’s 2013 Honorary Lecturer for Europe, Dr Marion Jegen (Geomar/Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany) will be held in No. 5 Merrion… Read More

Senior Professor Alan G Jones, Head of the Geophysics Section in the School of Cosmic Physics, has been awarded a Science Foundation Ireland Investigators Programme 2012 Investigator Project grant for four years to study the feasibility of carbon… Read More

From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity: Towards a New History of Gaelic Literature, A.D. 250–1750 A series of lectures in memory of Proinsias Mac Cana will be delivered in the Royal Irish Academy and the Dublin Institute for… Read More

Joanne Adam of the Geophysics Section (School of Cosmic Physics) has won the Student Author Award of the Geophysical Journal International. The award has been established to recognise and acknowledge the ‘best papers’ submitted to the journal from… Read More

An international team of astronomers, including Aleks Scholz (DIAS) and Antonella Natta (DIAS/Arcetri Observatory), have found for the first time that the outer region of a dusty disc encircling a brown dwarf — a star-like object, but too… Read More

On Friday 23rd November, Minister Joan Burton, T.D., formally launched the Irish Astronomy Trail, a new initiative developed by DIAS in the historic Dunsink Observatory. Dunsink Observatory is now operated by DIAS and is located in Minister Burton’s… Read More

Fergus Kelly, Senior Professor at the School of Celtic Studies, was awarded the Derek Allen prize in Celtic Studies by the British Academy on 8 November 2012. This annual award is made in turn in Musicology, Numismatics and… Read More

Professor Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, O.M., F.R.S. recently visited DIAS and gave the 2012 Statutory Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics. The lecture  entitled  “Cosmic perspectives: from planets to the multiverse” was held in UCD… Read More

“Irish manuscripts and the market in the early nineteenth century”  Tues 6th Nov at 5.00 p.m “The formation and dispersal of Edward O’Reilly’s collection of Irish manuscripts”  Wed 7th Nov at 5.00 p.m. Lecture Theatre, DIAS, 10 Burlington… Read More