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24th August 2016 – Earthquake in Italy

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 occurred in the Lazio region of Central Italy, on Wednesday 24 August 2016 at 01:36 UTC (03:36 local time). Many aftershocks have occurred since the main shock whose epicentre lies 38 km north… Read More

18th & 19th November – School of Celtic Studies Tionól 2016

This year’s Tionól will take place at the School of Celtic Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, on 18 and 19 November. Papers will relate to any aspect of Celtic Studies, and will be 30 minutes in duration.

October 2016 Calculus Course – School of Theoretical Physics

The School of Theoretical Physics invites Leaving Certificate mathematics students to participate in the 2016 Calculus Course – taking place over ten weekends from 1st October 2016.

17th September 2016 – School of Celtic Studies Symposium on Dánta Grádha

To celebrate the passing of one hundred years since the publication of the first edition of Dánta Grádha edited by Tomás Ó Rathile, a symposium on the dánta grá, the courtly love poetry of Early Modern Ireland and… Read More

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

Eamon O’Gorman

Title: Dr Eamon O’Gorman E-Mail: ogorman@cp.dias.ie Phone: +353 1 4406656 extn 352 Address: School of Cosmic Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics Section, 31 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2 Research Interests: Radio emission from red supergiants, AGB stars, red giants, and… Read More