Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 More than 130 academic institutions & scholarly societies have joined in a major world‐wide initiative: Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013. This year-long effort will highlight the contributions made by mathematics in the study… Read More

In the early hours of Tuesday 12 February, the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) which is maintained by DIAS, recorded an unusual seismic event in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The DPRK claimed that it had… Read More

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