Pictured: Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD welcoming Professor Teresa Lago to Ireland in DIAS in July 2019.
DIAS is celebrating an excellent start to 2020, with receipt of funding for a new Senior Professorship in Physics. The announcement was made Friday 03 January by Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD.
This new position is the result of the Government’s “Senior Academic Leadership Initiative” (SALI). The ultimate goal is to address the gender imbalance at senior academic level in higher education institutions in Ireland.
The initiative will fund academic roles where there is clear evidence of a gender imbalance, and in 2020 a total of 20 new positions will be introduced in higher education institutions throughout Ireland.
Welcoming the announcement, Dr. Eucharia Meehan, CEO and Registrar of DIAS, said: “I am delighted DIAS has been selected to be one of the first institutions selected to receive this groundbreaking funding.”
“The data shows irrefutably that women are not sufficiently represented in senior academic roles. Therefore, the work being undertaken by the Government to accelerate the correction of this imbalance is to be welcomed. Having a more representative academic profession will benefit us all.
“I look forward to the new Senior Physics Professor taking up the position once the recruitment process has been completed. I am sure an excellent contribution will be made that will benefit the broader Irish physics community.”
It is anticipated that the new SALI position will be widely advertised from late Spring 2020.
The final #Syngeweek part is now live on our website.
"Yet meet we shall, and part and meet again
Where dead men meet, on lips of living men."
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the passing of Professor J.L Synge. Part 6 and the final #SyngeWeek installment will go live this evening on our website at 6pm
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#SyngeWeek Part5 is now live on our website!
"One of the attractions [of coming to DIAS] for me in 1948 was the prospect of being a colleague of Schrödinger. "
Read more: dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn…
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Part 5 of #SyngeWeek covers his career with DIAS, the publication of "Relativity:The General Theory" which made DIAS the leading centre for research in General relativity for the following decade.
Part 4 is availble until 6pm: dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn…#DIASdiscovers
On tonight!
Don't miss your chance to see this fascinating documentary about Schroedinger's time in DIAS and the seminal discovery it lead to. Not forgetting he was DIAS' first Director of Theoretical Physics.
@RTEOne#DIASdiscovers#schrodinger
"...sometime early in 1944, I got a phone call from Oswald Veblen, asking me whether I would like to go to Europe attached to the American Army in a scientific capacity."
#SyngeWeek Part 4: Columbus & Europe is now live on our website ➡️ dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn…#DIASdiscovers
"...he wanted to endow international medals in mathematics (a subject omitted from Nobel Prizes, on account of Nobel's jealousy of Mittag-Leffler..."
#SyngeWeek Part 3: Toronto-Dublin-Toronto
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"Long before 1916 I had become a Nationalist, but the idea that there might be an armed rebellion was nothing more than a whispered rumour..."
#SyngeWeek part 3 will be posted on our website this evening at 6pm.
Part 2: University is available until then:
dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn…
#SyngeWeek Part Two: University, is now live on our website.
"...could force the rifle down the leg of his trousers, and we set out through the Front Gate of College; "
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#SyngeWeek part 2 is coming this evening. This will cover his University years.
J.L. Synge, an Irish mathematician & physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland (& DIAS) Canada, and the USA.
Part 1 ➡️ dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn…#DIASdiscovers
"My mother was Ellen Frances Price (1861-1935),
daughter of James Price, a distinguished Irish engineer.
I believe that, in so far as it was genetic, my interest
in mathematics came from this side of the family."- J.L Synge
More: dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn…#SyngeWeek#DIASdiscovers
DIAS receives funding for new ‘SALI’ Senior Professorship in Physics
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Last Updated: 7th January 2020 by Caoimhe Mulhall
DIAS is celebrating an excellent start to 2020, with receipt of funding for a new Senior Professorship in Physics. The announcement was made Friday 03 January by Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD.
This new position is the result of the Government’s “Senior Academic Leadership Initiative” (SALI). The ultimate goal is to address the gender imbalance at senior academic level in higher education institutions in Ireland.
The initiative will fund academic roles where there is clear evidence of a gender imbalance, and in 2020 a total of 20 new positions will be introduced in higher education institutions throughout Ireland.
Welcoming the announcement, Dr. Eucharia Meehan, CEO and Registrar of DIAS, said: “I am delighted DIAS has been selected to be one of the first institutions selected to receive this groundbreaking funding.”
“The data shows irrefutably that women are not sufficiently represented in senior academic roles. Therefore, the work being undertaken by the Government to accelerate the correction of this imbalance is to be welcomed. Having a more representative academic profession will benefit us all.
“I look forward to the new Senior Physics Professor taking up the position once the recruitment process has been completed. I am sure an excellent contribution will be made that will benefit the broader Irish physics community.”
It is anticipated that the new SALI position will be widely advertised from late Spring 2020.
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The final #Syngeweek part is now live on our website. "Yet meet we shall, and part and meet again Where dead men meet, on lips of living men." dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn… Returning visitors don't forget to clear your cookies! #DIASdiscovers
Today is the 25th anniversary of the passing of Professor J.L Synge. Part 6 and the final #SyngeWeek installment will go live this evening on our website at 6pm #DIASdiscovers
What a great idea! 👩🚀👩🚀 twitter.com/SpaceStnExplor…
#SyngeWeek Part5 is now live on our website! "One of the attractions [of coming to DIAS] for me in 1948 was the prospect of being a colleague of Schrödinger. " Read more: dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn… Returning visitors remember to clear those cookies! #DIASdiscovers
Part 5 of #SyngeWeek covers his career with DIAS, the publication of "Relativity:The General Theory" which made DIAS the leading centre for research in General relativity for the following decade. Part 4 is availble until 6pm: dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn… #DIASdiscovers
On tonight! Don't miss your chance to see this fascinating documentary about Schroedinger's time in DIAS and the seminal discovery it lead to. Not forgetting he was DIAS' first Director of Theoretical Physics. @RTEOne #DIASdiscovers #schrodinger
Returning Visitors please remember to clear those cookies!
"...sometime early in 1944, I got a phone call from Oswald Veblen, asking me whether I would like to go to Europe attached to the American Army in a scientific capacity." #SyngeWeek Part 4: Columbus & Europe is now live on our website ➡️ dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn… #DIASdiscovers
Spring Newsletter just launched! See what has happened in 2020 so far: mailchi.mp/5ea85f227dce/d… Subscribe to our mailing list today to get future editions direct to your mailbox: dias.ie/mailinglistsub… #DIASdiscovers
"...he wanted to endow international medals in mathematics (a subject omitted from Nobel Prizes, on account of Nobel's jealousy of Mittag-Leffler..." #SyngeWeek Part 3: Toronto-Dublin-Toronto dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn… Returning visitors please remember to clear those cookies 🍪
"Long before 1916 I had become a Nationalist, but the idea that there might be an armed rebellion was nothing more than a whispered rumour..." #SyngeWeek part 3 will be posted on our website this evening at 6pm. Part 2: University is available until then: dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn…
Please note the reopening date of DIAS buildings is now 20 April. dias.ie/2020/03/13/ale… #coronavirus #StayHomeSaveLives
#SyngeWeek Part Two: University, is now live on our website. "...could force the rifle down the leg of his trousers, and we set out through the Front Gate of College; " ➡️dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn… Returning visitors please be sure to clear those cookies🍪 #DIASdiscovers
#SyngeWeek part 2 is coming this evening. This will cover his University years. J.L. Synge, an Irish mathematician & physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland (& DIAS) Canada, and the USA. Part 1 ➡️ dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn… #DIASdiscovers
"My mother was Ellen Frances Price (1861-1935), daughter of James Price, a distinguished Irish engineer. I believe that, in so far as it was genetic, my interest in mathematics came from this side of the family."- J.L Synge More: dias.ie/2020/03/23/syn… #SyngeWeek #DIASdiscovers