25 April 2018 – Seminar When: 16:00 on Wednesday, 25th April 2018 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Dr. Jana H. Borner (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology) Title: Complex electrical conductivity of… Read More
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Last Updated: 23rd July 2018 by mary
20th July 2018: Visit to DIAS by H.E. Mr. Miguel Malfavón, Ambassador of Mexico to Ireland
His Excellency Mr. Miguel Malfavón, Ambassador of Mexico to Ireland, visited DIAS on Friday 20th July and met with Dr Eucharia Meehan (Registrar and CEO of DIAS) and Professor Denjoe O’Connor (Senior Professor in the School of Theoretical… Read More
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Last Updated: 20th July 2018 by mary
19th July 2018: Moon Cycle to DIAS Dunsink Observatory as part of Festival of Curiosity
The ‘Moon Cycle’ took place last night (19.07.18) as part of the Festival of Curiosity. DIAS Dunsink Observatory was established in 1785, and has been part of DIAS since 1947. It now functions primarily as an outreach centre… Read More
23rd June 2018: Dunsink Observatory designated Ireland’s first European site of historical significance
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Last Updated: 3rd September 2018 by mary
Dunsink Observatory, part of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), sealed its status as one of Ireland’s most important scientific sites today (23.06.18), when it was recognised by the European Physical Society as a “site of historical… Read More
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Last Updated: 11th July 2018 by mary
13th June 2018 : School of Theoretical Physics Statutory Public Lecture by Professor Terence Rudolph
This year marks the 75th Anniversary of Professor Erwin Schrödinger’s ‘What is Life?’ Lecture Series. Prof. Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-winner, was the Director of the School of Theoretical Physics at the DIAS from 1940-1956. To commemorate this anniversary,… Read More
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Last Updated: 14th June 2018 by mary
13th June 2018 : Grandsons of Schrödinger and de Valera mark 75 years of ground-breaking science
The grandsons of two men who played a key role in Irish public life during the 20th Century met for the first time today (13.06.18) at an event in Dublin commemorating the life’s work of Nobel prize-winner and… Read More
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Last Updated: 24th May 2018 by mary
May 2018 : DIAS led HERSK project field work in Iceland started recently
The field season of the DIAS led HERSK project started last week when Icelandic Met Office engineers transported seismic gear with skidoos onto Hekla volcano. The HEkla Real-time Seismic networK project is funded by the GSI shortcall program… Read More
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of Schrödinger’s ‘What is Life?’ lectures
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Last Updated: 11th March 2019 by Niamh Breathnach
This year marks the 75th Anniversary of Professor Erwin Schrödinger’s ‘What is Life?’ Lecture Series. Prof. Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-winner, was the Director of the School of Theoretical Physics at the DIAS from 1940-1956. DIAS have launched a… Read More
19th – 29th June 2018 : DIAS Summer School in High-Energy Astrophysics 2018
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Last Updated: 19th July 2018 by mary
The DIAS Summer School on High-Energy Astrophysics 2018 is the second summer school organised by the Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Astrophysics (CAPPA), part of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), and is hosted by Dublin City… Read More
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Last Updated: 23rd May 2018 by George Rogers
Thursday 3rd May: STP Seminar – “Black Holes, Stokes Flows & Transport at Strong Coupling”
Title: Black holes, Stokes flows and transport at strong coupling Speaker: Aristomenis Donos (U. Durham) Abstract: Certain strongly coupled materials, such as the cuprate superconductors exhibit fascinating, yet hard to explain transport properties. Holography provides a consistent framework to study the… Read More
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Last Updated: 23rd May 2018 by Anna
2018-04-25 – Seminar by Dr. Jana H. Borner (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology)
25 April 2018 – Seminar When: 16:00 on Wednesday, 25th April 2018 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Dr. Jana H. Borner (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology) Title: Complex electrical conductivity of… Read More
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Next week Professor Chris Bean @dias_geophysics will give the second lecture in the series, ‘Earth processes - drivers for life’. Register to attend on Thursday 28th March here: eventbrite.ie/e/earth-proces… #DIASdiscovers
Prof @petertgallagher finishes his talk with a question for the audience to ponder, ‘Is there anyone or anything out there?’ #DIASdiscovers
Radio telescopes such as @I_LOFAR here in Ireland help scientists explore the question ‘What is extraterrestrial life?’ #DIASdiscovers
.@petertgallagher gives us some possible solutions to the Fermi Paradox which postulates the possible existence of extraterrestrial life #DIASdiscovers
As of March 2019 there are 3,925 confirmed exoplanets in the @NASA Exoplanet Archive. @petertgallagher explains how astrophysicists detect these planets by looking at light curves as they transit in front of stars. #DIASdiscovers
Prof @petertgallagher kicks off with an apt quote from Schrödinger, ‘Some of us should adventure to embark on a syntheses of facts and theories....and the risk of making fools of ourselves’ #DIASdiscovers
Registrar Eucharia Meehan currently introducing the series and today’s speaker @petertgallagher #DIASdiscovers
Today at DIAS Professor @petertgallagher is answering the question ‘What is Extra-terrestrial Life?’. This is the first talk in a four-part public lecture series exploring ‘What is Life?’, famously considered by Professor Erwin Schrödinger in 1943. #DIASdiscovers
Tomorrow, at 1pm, Professor @petertgallagher will ask “What is Extra-terrestrial Life?” in the first of a four part public lecture series. There are a limited number of places still available - reserve your place free of charge at bit.ly/2HEJfYN. #DIASdiscovers
Have you registered for our commemorative 'What is Life?' public lecture series? Part 1 taking place on Thursday with @petertgallagher. More info here: bit.ly/2FbUl5J
Trína tograí ceannródaíocha sna daonnachtaí digiteacha, anois tá saothar @SCSLibrary ar fáil ar fud an domhain ar an idirlíon. Sampla is ea an togra Ogham in 3D de thogra a chuidíonn go mór le caomhnú ár gcultúir #DIASdiscovers #SnaG19
Is í an Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh an lárionad domhanda aitheanta don taighde sna teangacha agus litríochtaí Ceilteacha, an foilsitheoir acadúil is mó le rá sa réimse le taighde déanta ar an gCeilteachas in Éirinn agus i mór-roinn na hEorpa. #DIASdiscovers #SnaG19
Sa leabharlann ag @SCSLibrary tá an bailiúchán is cuimsithí agus is inrochtana de leabhair agus irisí faoin Léann Ceilteach ar oileán na hÉireann. #SnaG19 #DIASdiscovers
✨ Ag siúl siar le haghaidh #SnaG19 ✨ I DIAS sa bhlian 1978 foilsiú Corpus Iuris Hibernici, le Binchy - an phríomh obair ar dhlíthe Brehon go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. #DIASdiscovers
Ag siúl siar le haghaidh #SnaG19! I 1972 bhí DIAS freagrach as an gcéad turgnamh Éireannach riamh sa spás agus ar dhromchla na gealaí (misean NASA, Apollo 16) #DIASdiscovers
I 1943, thug Schrodinger (an chéad Stiúrthóir ar Scoil na Fisice Teoiriciúla in DIAS & buaiteoir na duaise Nobel) a shraith léachtanna cáiliúla "What is life?" i @tcddublin Aitheantas tugtha ag Crick &Watson gur spreag na léachtaí seo a bhfionnachtain DNA #SnaG19 #DIASdiscovers