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Friday 21st October: STP Seminar – “Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Gravity & Fractal Spacetime from the Quantum Browian Motion Perspective”

Title: Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Gravity & Fractal Spacetime from the Quantum Browian Motion Perspective. Speaker: Bei-Lok Hu (University of Maryland). Abstract: Many approaches to quantum gravity find that spacetime near the Planck scale (10^33cm) becomes effectively two-dimensional. Recently… Read More

Thursday 20th October 2016: STP Seminar (Double Bill) – With Speakers Malcolm J. Perry & Paul Feehan

Thurs 20th Oct: 2pm Malcolm J Perry (DAMTP) / 3.30pm Paul Feehan (Rutgers) _________________________________________________ Speaker: Malcolm J Perry (DAMTP, Cambridge) Time: 2pm, Thursday 20th Oct 2016 Title: The Black Hole Information Paradox revisited Abstract: I will briefly introduce… Read More

Friday 7th October 2016: Seminar – “Cell gas model of Statistical mechanics”

The School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies will host a seminar by Alexei Rebenko on Friday 7th October at 2pm. Title: Cell gas model of Statistical mechanics Speaker: Alexei Rebenko (Institute of Mathematics, Kiev) Abstract:… Read More

2016-05 – Pressure and compressibility of conformal field theories from the AdS/CFT correspondence

DIAS-STP-16-05 Pressure and compressibility of conformal field theories from the AdS/CFT correspondence B. P. Dolan This preprint is available on Arxiv.org This preprint is available for download : Portable Document Form Details provided: Date of publication : 04/08/16… Read More

Culture Night 2016 at the Geophysics Section, School of Cosmic Physics

Earthquakes and other Geohazards Despite its lack of large earthquakes, Ireland holds a special place in the history of Earthquake studies thanks to the pioneering work of Robert Mallet in the mid-19th century. Come see the past and… Read More

2016-06 – Melnikov’s Method in String Theory

DIAS-STP-16-06 Melnikov’s Method in String Theory Y. Asano, H. Kyono and K. Yoshida This preprint is available on Arxiv.org This preprint is available for download : Portable Document Form Details provided: Date of publication : 25/07/16 To obtain… Read More

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.

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

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

Monday 27th June 2016 : Seminar “The rise and fall of free masonry arches”

The School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies will host a seminar by Jemal Guven on Monday 27th June at 2pm. Title:  The rise and fall of free masonry arches. Speaker:  Jemal Guven (Instituto de Ciencias… Read More