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Dindṡenchas Érenn: Call for papers

Dindṡenchas call for papers posterPapers are invited for the first conference on Dindṡenchas Érenn to be held at the School of Celtic Studies on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 March 2017 Friday 31st March and Saturday 1st April. Papers will be 30 minutes in duration and should be related to an aspect of the Dindṡenchas. Papers can be given in either English or Irish. Abstracts between 150–250 words should be sent as an attachment to conference@celt.dias.ie. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, 30 November 2016.

7th September 2016

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 west of that of the April 6th, 2009 l’Aquila earthquake (magnitude 6.3).

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24th August 2016

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

Tionol 2016 poster thumbnailThis 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. (more…)

20th July 2016

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.

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20th July 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 Scotland, will be held in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies on 17 September 2016.

Abstracts and information on how to register can be now be found here.

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20th July 2016

16th September – Culture Night 2016

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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 brought to you by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs in partnership with regional arts offices, local authorities and cultural organisations throughout the island of Ireland.

 

7th July 2016

3rd August – DIAS to Develop Revolutionary New Detector for Astronomy

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A Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) similar to the devices that will be developed in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Image courtesy of Ben Mazin and Spencer Bruttig, University of California, Santa Barbara

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 and planet formation in our own Milky Way. Known as Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs), individual pixels are super-cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and can detect not only the intensity of photons arriving from distant objects but also their colour and time of arrival to within a fraction of a millisecond. Data rates from these detectors are so high that the project will use read-out electronics, developed for the giant radio telescope known as the Square Kilometre Array, to collect results. This project is in collaboration with the University of Oxford, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University. It will be led by Professor Tom Ray from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

SFI Press Release

7th July 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 research record in Noncommutative Geometry or AdS/CFT.

Previous experience with hybrid Monte Carlo simulations in field theory would be an advantage.

To apply please send your CV along with a short letter of application to vacancies@dias.ie (PDF only).

Once your application has been received you will be sent an application number.

When you have been assigned an application number up to 3 references may be sent in support of your application.

All references must be forwarded by the referee to vacancies@dias.ie quoting your application number.

Closing date for applications is 1 August 2016.

6th July 2016

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). I will review recent activities focused on weighted information and entropy where different outcomes generate different contributions moderated by a weight function. Using such an approach, new results can be achieved and new problems stated (and sometimes solved).

Time: 2pm, Wednesday 6th July 2016
Place: Discussion Room, 3rd Floor, School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4

4th July 2016

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 exhibits a phase transition which interpolates between a continuum phase and a "crystalline" non-manifoldlike phase. These phases play an important role in determining the nature of the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction. Combining analytic and numerical techniques we find that the wave function has a low temperature peak over causal sets which exhibit physically interesting behaviour. In particular, they show a rapid spatial expansion with respect to the discrete proper time, as well as a high degree of spatial homogeneity. While our results are limited to 2 dimensions they provide a concrete example of the role played by non-perturbative quantum gravity in generating the initial conditions for our observable universe.

Time: 3pm, Thursday 30th June 2016

Place: Lecture Room, 1st Floor, School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4

27th June 2016

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