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Thirty-fifth Hugh M Fitzpatrick Lecture in Legal Bibliography in association with DIAS

The Thirty-fifth Hugh M. Fitzpatrick Lecture in Legal Bibliography took place at DIAS on Tuesday 28th November. The lecture entitled “De Valera and the creation of an independent Irish constitutional tradition” was given by Dr Martin Mansergh. The… Read More

Tuesday 5th December: STP Seminar – “An M5-Brane Model”

Title: An M5-Brane Model Speaker: Christian Sämann (Heriot-Watt University) Abstract: We show how to write an action for a classical six-dimensional superconfomal field theory containing a non-abelian tensor multiplet. All of the ingredients of this action have been available in… Read More

Thursday 30th November: STP Seminar – “Commuting Matrices, MacDonald Identities & Supersymmetric Gauge Theory”

Title: Commuting Matrices, MacDonald Identities & Supersymmetric Gauge Theory Speaker: Giovanni Felder (ETH Zurich) Abstract: I will introduce the notion of representation homology, following Berest, Khatchatrian and Ramadoss, and discuss some examples, applications and open problems about pairs of commuting… Read More

CQG+ ‘Insight’ Article – A Kind Of Magic by Leron Borsten & Alessio Marrani

This paper was published in CQG+ – the companion blog to Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG). A Kind Of Magic The road from Dunsink to the exceptional symmetries of M-theory By Leron Borsten and Alessio Marrani  Our journey starts in the fall… Read More

Science Week Event: Evening, 16th Nov. 2017, 5 Merrion Sq. – limitied places remaining

Earthquakes and other Geohazards Despite its lack of large earthquakes, Ireland holds a special place in the history of Earthquake studies thanks to the pioneering work of Robert Mallet in the mid-19th century. Come see the past and… Read More

Thursday 7th December: STP Seminar – “Quantum Aspects of Black Hole and Fuzzy Sphere in String Theory”

Title: Quantum Aspects of Black Hole and Fuzzy Sphere in String Theory Speaker: Yoshifumi Hyakutake (Ibaraki University, Japan) Abstract: One of important directions in superstring theory is to reveal quantum nature of black hole. In this talk we embed Schwarzschild… Read More

M7.3 Iran earthquake, 12th November 2017

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred on the 12th November 2017 at 18:18 UTC in the northwest of Iran. For more details please see this post on the INSN homepage.

Science Week 2017 Press Release

Press Release Thursday 9th November 2017 DIAS School of Cosmic Physics announce programme of events for Science Week 2017   Space, telescopes, meteors earthquakes and other geohazards will form part of the exciting line-up of the Dublin Institute… Read More

Science Week at Dunsink Observatory

Kick Off Science Week at Dunsink Observatory Seanie Morris talks about Space and Telescopes of the Future Sunday November 12th at 7:20 pm Free Event, ample free parking Advance booking required: Book here Family Open Night, November 22nd… Read More

26th October 2017 – DIAS Annual Report Published

PRESS RELEASE  Thursday, 26th October 2017 DIAS annual report The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) has today (26.10.17) published its annual report for 2016. The report documents the key activities undertaken by DIAS last year, including global… Read More