Instruments that will be used on the James Webb Space Telescope were developed by scientists led by Prof. Tom Ray, from the Astronomy & Astrophysics Section, School of Cosmic Physics.

The Magnetotelluric Method: Theory and Practice was published this month by Cambridge University Press. It was co-written and co-edited by Professor Alan G. Jones (Geophysics Section, School of Cosmic Physics). The magnetotelluric method is a technique for imaging… Read More

Dr. Nicola Piana Agostinetti was awarded one of Science Foundation Ireland’s highly prestigious Starting Investigator Research Grants (SIRG) to work with Professor Sergei Lebedev undertaking studies of Ireland’s geothermal energy potential in collaboration with the IRETHERM project (www.iretherm.ie)… Read More

Professor Werner Nahm, School of Theoretical Physics, was awarded the 2012 Gothenburg Lise Meitner prize by the Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg on 14 September 2012. The nomination in particular refers to Professor Nahm’s… Read More

Andrew Schaeffer from the Geophysics section of the School of Cosmic Physics won the best student talk prize at the recent 2012 Irish Geological Research Meeting (IGRM). The 2012 IGRM took place at University College Cork from February… Read More

An explanation for recently detected radiation from the Crab Pulsar – one of the brightest persistent gamma-ray sources in the sky – is proposed in Nature this week. The pulses of very high-energy gamma-ray emission are ascribed to… Read More

At 01:04am on January 26th the INSN seismic station IDGL in Donegal recorded a minor earthquake in the region north of Buncrana.

Professor Werner Nahm recently gave a talk entitled “The Embedding of Quantum Field Theory in Mathematics” during the Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory Workshop in the Simon Center for Geometry on the 18th of January 2012.  Video… Read More

Professor Cumrun Vafa recently visited DIAS and gave the 2011 Statutory Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics. The lecture was held in Trinity College on Saturday 19th November and was entitled “Geometric Physics“.  The talk reviewed… Read More

The NASA Astronaut, Lieutenant Colonel Robert S. Kimbrough visited Dunsink Observatory on Thursday 6th October. He gave a talk on his recent mission on the STS-126 Endeavour and there was a Q&A session on his life as an… Read More