Official announcement on the CERN website Peter Ware Higgs (while visiting DIAS for a conference in honour of Professor Werner Nahm – 20-11-2009)

Ireland’s National Data Centre for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) hosted by DIAS, was officially opened on Friday 22 June, by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, T.D., and Dr… Read More

On June 6th, 2012, at 07:58:13.9 UTC a moderate earthquake Mag 4.0 occurred in the Atlantic Ocean at location 54.151 -10.904, 100 km off Belmullet in Co Mayo.

Two of DIAS’s top academics were recently admitted as new Members of the Royal Irish Academy. Professor Felix Aharonian (Cosmic Physics) and Professor Denjoe O’Connor (Theoretical Physics) were among only 22 academics on the island of Ireland to… Read More

On June 6th 2012, weather permitting, Ireland will witness a transit of Venus when the planet will cross in front of the Sun. Transits of Venus are very rare and if you don’t see this one, you will… Read More

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