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World-renowned scientists to lead DIAS line-up for Dublin Festival of History

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, one of Ireland’s most distinguished scientists, and Professor Luke O’Neill, who has been a prominent commentator on public health and Covid-19, are headlining the programme of events being hosted by the Dublin Institute… Read More

DIAS statement in relation to Professor Hans-Benjamin Braun

Published on Sunday 6th September 2020 Professor Hans-Benjamin Braun is not now – nor has he ever been – an employee of DIAS. He has no contractual association with the Institute. Professor Braun is a former member of… Read More

DIAS Team Takes First Place in IBM’s Quantum Computer Hackathon

Starting on 18th August, teams from across Ireland went head-to-head in the IBM Qiskit Quantum Summer Jam Hackathon. The competition was open to the public, so naturally the 13 teams covered a diverse array of backgrounds, from universities… Read More

DIAS scientists make major discovery on the formation of new stars

An international team, led by scientists from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), has directly observed for the first time how young stars are formed. Their findings have been published in the prestigious journal Nature this week…. Read More

Launching the #DIAS2020 Video

For eight decades, DIAS has been at the forefront of research and has continually explored the big questions of the 21st Century and beyond. DIAS has pushed the boundaries to explore and discover the unknown. Today, we continue… Read More

H.E.S.S. Collaboration detects gigantic particle accelerator spanning thousands of light years

A new paper by the H.E.S.S. collaboration, including DIAS scientists Prof. Felix Aharonian, Prof. Emeritus Luke Drury and Dr. Jonathan Mackey, is published in the journal Nature on 18th June 2020. Careful analysis of the H.E.S.S. observations showed… Read More

What DIAS means to me

We have had an incredibly unusual start to this year by all accounts and we have learned through practice our amazing ability to adapt. But even though we have been working from home over the course of this… Read More

Work led by DIAS Astronomers Reveals Atmosphere of Antares

An international team of astronomers led by DIAS’s Dr Eamon O’Gorman has created the most detailed map yet of the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares. The unprecedented sensitivity and resolution of both the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter… Read More

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies celebrates 80 years of Discovery

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) is marking its unique mission and rich legacy of ground-breaking discoveries with a week of on-line events culminating in DIAS Day on Friday, 19th June , which marks the 80th anniversary since… Read More

DIAS scientists collect unique data from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

Unique ocean-bottom recordings of North Atlantic earthquakes and the songs of great baleen whales offshore Ireland have been obtained thanks to one of the boldest deep-ocean research projects ever undertaken in Europe. The SEA-SEIS project, led by scientists… Read More