Professor Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford

Professor Tim Palmer, Professor Maria Baghramian (UCD School of Philosophy & Principal Investigator on “When Experts Disagree” Project), Professor Luke Drury (School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS & Principal Investigator on “When Experts Disagree” Project)

Cecil Keaveney (DIAS Registrar) with Prof. Tim Palmer

 Watch the lecture here

DIAS School of Cosmic Physics Statutory Public Lecture 2016

 in association with the

“When Experts Disagree” Irish Research Council funded interdisciplinary project between UCD School of Philosophy and DIAS

“The Physics of Climate Change : What we know and what we are uncertain about”

by Professor Tim Palmer

Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford

Thursday 24th November 6:30pm

Edmund Burke Theatre (Room 1008), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Admission is free but advance booking is required here on eventbrite.

https://www.dias.ie/climatechange

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An international scientific team led by Dr. Alessio Caratti o Garatti from the Astronomy & Astrophysics Section of the School of Cosmic Physics here at DIAS, for the first time observed and analyzed an outburst from a high-mass young stellar object that was caused by material accreting onto the star.

Read the paper published in Nature Physics this week here : http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys3942.html

Press releases:

https://www.gemini.edu/node/12584

http://www.dsi.uni-stuttgart.de/aktuelles/news/news_0056.en.html

http://www.caha.es/a-startburst-reveals-the-formation-mechanism-of-massive-stars.html

Artist’s impression of an accretion burst in a high-mass young stellar object like S255 NIRS 3. Image Credit: Deutsches SOFIA Institut (DSI).

Pre-outburst (left) and outburst (middle) near-infrared images (K, H, J bands) of the high-mass young stellar object S255IR NIRS 3, taken from 2009 UKIDSS archive data and the PANIC camera (Calar Alto Observatory, Man-Planck Society) in 2016, respectively, as well as outburst mid-infrared images (right) taken with FORCAST / SOFIA at 7.7, 19.7 and 31.5 microns (2016). Copyright: Caratti o Garatti.

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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