10 April 2017 – Seminar
When: 16:00 on Monday, 10th April 2017
Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library)
Speaker: Prof. Tarje Nissen-Meyer
Title: Occam or not? On the interaction of waves with structure.
The First meeting to promote research on massive stars and supernovae in Ireland was held in DIAS May 25-26
In 2016 a number of new Astronomy and Astrophysics research groups were set up in the ROI to study massive stars, their evolution, and explosion. Following on from this a series of meetings have been proposed linking these researchers to their NI colleagues at research centres for the evolution (Armagh Observatory), and explosion (Queens University Belfast) of stars. These meetings will enable knowledge exchange, build collaborations, and help group leaders to develop complementary themes of research. They will also strengthen and focus Horizon 2020 applications being developed by young researchers. They will strengthen North-South collaboration in education and public engagement.
These Meetings are funded by the Irish Research Council’s New Foundations programme to promote research on massive stars and supernovae in Ireland, North and South.
The first meeting was held at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, on 25-26 May 2017
Invited Speakers
Dr Robert Izzard presenting his talk on Evolution and Disssolution of massive binary stars.
Dr Sylvia Ekström
Stellar Evolution : recent results, challenges and future advances
Dr Takashi Moriya
Connecting supernovae with their progenoitors: progress and open questions
Dr Ben Davies
Red Supergiants in the local universe, and determining the mass on SN progenitors.
Monday 29 May 2017 – DIAS Press Release on Eucharia Meehan’s appointment as Registrar and CEO of DIAS and admittance to RIA
Dr Eucharia Meehan pictured with Prof. Peter Kennedy (President of the RIA)
Dr. Eucharia Meehan has been appointed as Registrar and CEO of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), the internationally-renowned institute for world-leading basic research and scholarship.
Dr. Meehan previously held the position of Director of the Irish Research Council, having been appointed as the inaugural leader of the organisation when it was established in 2012.
Commenting on her new role with DIAS, Dr. Meehan said: “It is a privilege to take up this appointment in an institution with such a strong international reputation for excellent work in the pursuit of new knowledge. Reflecting its roots and rich legacy, DIAS connects Ireland to international and indeed global research networks. From its inception to the present day, DIAS is a magnet for current and emerging research leaders in each of its specialised branches of knowledge.”
Professor Vincent Cunnane Chairman of DIAS said: “We are delighted to welcome an individual of such high calibre to DIAS. Eucharia has an outstanding leadership record and, importantly, has been a consistent advocate for the funding of basic research in Ireland.”
Dr. Eucharia Meehan with Prof. Dervilla Donnelly (Chair of Friends of DIAS and former Chairman of DIAS Council)
In addition to starting her new role at DIAS, Dr. Meehan was admitted as a member of the Royal Irish Academy in recent days. She is among 18 individuals to achieve the distinction of being admitted as a member in 2017. Membership is attained by election and is considered the highest academic honour on the island of Ireland.
l-r : Prof. Liam Breatnach (DIAS School of Celtic Studies), Dr. Eucharia Meehan, Prof. Tom Ray (DIAS School of Cosmic Physics)
Dr. Meehan received this honour on foot of more than 20 years of leadership across a range of public and private research-based organisations. Prior to her role with the Irish Research Council, she was Head of Research and Innovation at the Higher Education Authority, and directed the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI), which invested €1.2bn over a decade to create the strategic research infrastructure that became the bedrock for Irish research, particularly in the higher education sector.
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About DIAS
DIAS was established in 1940 by Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. It combines humanistic and scientific disciplines in three schools: Theoretical Physics, Celtic Studies and Cosmic Physics. The Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger was the first Director of the School of Theoretical Physics. Areas of research interest include Celtic manuscripts and texts, Celtic languages and linguistics, geological phenomenon, star formation, cosmic astrophysics, astro-particle physics, quantum information theory and condensed matter theory.
In addition to the conduct of research, DIAS mentors and trains early-stage researchers, and provides opportunities for engagement with projects and experts at the highest level. DIAS is also an academic publisher of monographs, books, and journals in Celtic Studies and on advanced scientific subjects. It conducts a range of public outreach activities, including open evenings at its Observatory in Dunsink and an extensive school programme in seismology which involves in excess of 55 schools.
Thursday 18 May 2017 – Appointment of New Registrar at DIAS
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Eucharia Meehan to the position of Registrar following the retirement of Cecil Keaveney.
Dr Meehan has more than 20 years of leadership experience across a range of public and private research based organisations.
Prior to joining DIAS, Dr Meehan was the inaugural Director of the Irish Research Council, the latter being established in 2012 through the merger of two former councils (the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology). Most recently in that role Eucharia spearheaded the national #LoveIrishResearch communication campaign and successfully instigated the new Irish Research Council Laureate Awards. The latter will fund internationally competitive frontier research across all disciplines.
Prior to her role at the Irish Research Council, Dr Meehan was Head of Research and Innovation (policy and investment) at the Higher Education Authority (HEA). This latter role encompassed Director of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) which invested €1.2bn of public and private funds to develop strategic research infrastructure and capacity. She was also for a time Head of Capital Investment for the university sector.
Before joining the HEA in 2001, Dr Meehan was Head of Programme Management at Elan Biotechnology Research (EBR). In this role she had responsibility for sites and joint ventures in Ireland, Israel and the USA. Dr Meehan holds a PhD in Pharmacology (Neuropharmacology) from NUIG, in addition to a number of postgraduate management, accounting and finance qualifications from TCD and the ACCA.
Symposium: New Approaches to Brittonic Historical Linguistics
Taking place from 31 August – 1 September 2017.
Programme now available here
Andrea Licciardi wins outstanding Student presentation at EGU 2017
During the Geodynamics division meeting at the 2017 EGU general assembly, that took place in Vienna on April 25, DIAS former PhD-student, Andrea Licciardi has been awarded with the Outstanding Student Presentation and Pico (OSPP award). Andrea presented new evidence about crustal anisotropy along the North-Anatolian Fault system obtained using passive seismic observations. This study is a joint collaboration between DIAS, GFZ and Istanbul Technical University. His poster was titled: “Crustal anisotropy along the North Anatolian Fault Zone from receiver functions”
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DIAS Research Forum 2017 – Wednesday 17th May
An inter-disciplinary research forum has been scheduled for Wednesday 17 May 2017, 3-5pm at Burlington Road. The forum is intended to be an informal event that provides post-doctoral scholars and PhD students with the opportunity to share and discuss their current research with scholars and staff from across the three schools of DIAS. There will be no main speakers at the event. Instead, participants will be assigned a space where they can share and discuss their research interests. Participants are encouraged to present a poster which visually complements their research, and allows them to explain what they do to all DIAS staff. In instances where a poster presentation is not appropriate, participants should feel free to develop an alternative approach. The forum presents a great opportunity for scholars to sharpen their academic presentation and public outreach skills in an informal setting, while also getting to know colleagues from across the Institute. The organisers strongly encourage scholars from all three schools to participate in the forum. A coordinator from each section will liaise with participants regarding their presentations. Participants are asked to register here prior to Friday 12 May. Section Coordinators: Celtic Studies - Eibhlín Nic Dhonncha eibhlin@celt.dias.ie CP, Astrophysics - Eileen Flood eflood@cp.dias.ie & Anne Grace ag@cp.dias.ie CP, Geophysics - Clare Horan choran@cp.dias.ie Theoretical Physics - George Rogers grogers@stp.dias.ie
Please contact your section coordinator with any queries. All DIAS staff are welcome to attend.
Friday 7th April : DIAS astronomer wins ERC Advanced Grant with SFI support – no EASY feat
Professor Tom Ray of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) has been awarded one of the European Research Council’s (ERC) prestigious Advanced Grants to study the birth of stars and planets. Tom is an Irish astronomer whose work sheds light on what the Solar System would have looked like 5 billion years ago when it began to form. During this rather chaotic and turbulent period matter is not only gravitationally sucked onto a newborn star like the Sun but ejected as well in the form of highly supersonic jets that stretch for light-years.
His proposal, “Ejection Accretion Structures in Young Stellar Objects (YSOs)” with acronym EASY, aims to use the latest observing facilities, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, the European low frequency radio telescope LOFAR (with an Irish node funded by SFI currently under construction in Birr, County Offaly) and those of the European Southern Observatory, to improve our understanding of the complex processes involved. Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) awarded Prof Ray an ERC development grant and this was crucial in enabling him to obtain all the necessary international observatory agreements.
This round was highly competitive with only 9.6% of proposals being funded. The grant of just under 2M Euro will support seven research positions in DIAS.
Speaking on behalf of DIAS Prof Luke Drury, Director of the School of Cosmic Physics, said “We are all delighted for Tom. DIAS, like the ERC, is an organisation that believes in the pursuit of excellence and curiosity-driven research; this award is a vindication of that vision at the highest level”.
Graeme Horley, SFI Programme Manager and ERC National Contact Point said, “We are delighted that Tom has been successful in winning an ERC Advanced Grant. These awards are among the most highly sought after in Europe and are extremely difficult to win. We are particularly pleased that the support provided to Prof. Ray through our ERC Development Programme has helped in this success. We congratulate Tom and look forward to learning about the exciting developments from this project over the coming years”.
For further information contact:
Prof Tom Ray, School of Cosmic Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,
e-Mail tr@cp.dias.ie
Phone 087 9062696
Dr Graeme Horley, Science Foundation Ireland, ERC National contact point,
e-Mail graeme.horley@sfi.ie
ERC web site and list of awards:
https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-advanced-grants-540-million-euros-eu-231-senior-researchers
2017-4-10 – Seminar by Prof. Tarje Nissen-Meyer
2017-4-5 – Seminar by Prof. Heiner Igel
5 April 2017 – Seminar
When: 16:00 on Wednesday, 5th April 2017
Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library)
Speaker: Prof. Heiner Igel (Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Germany)
Title: Earth’s Rock and Roll: Rotational Motions in Seismology.
Monday 27th March: STP Seminar – “Yang-Baxter sigma-models, conformal twists & noncommutative Yang-Mills”
Title: Yang-Baxter sigma-models, conformal twists & noncommutative Yang-Mills
Speaker: Eoin Ó Colgáin (University of Surrey)
Abstract: The Yang-Baxter σ-model is a systematic way to generate integrable deformations of AdS5×S5. We recast the deformations as seen by open strings, where the metric is undeformed AdS5×S5 with constant string coupling, and all information about the deformation is encoded in the noncommutative (NC) parameter Θ. We identify the deformations of AdS5 as twists of the conformal algebra, thus explaining the noncommutativity. We show that the unimodularity conditon on r-matrices for supergravity solutions translates into Θ being divergence-free. Integrability of the σ-model for unimodular r-matrices implies the existence and planar integrability of the dual NC gauge theory.
Time: Monday 27th March 2017, 3.00pm.
Place: Lecture Room, School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4.
News & Events
- Science Week at Dunsink Observatory
- 16th November 2017 – Earthquakes and other Geohazards
- 26th October 2017 – DIAS Annual Report Published
- 17th November – School of Celtic Studies Statutory Public Lecture 2017
- Thursday 2nd November: STP Seminar – “Top Mass from Asymptotic Safety”
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