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Sudeshna Sen (University College Dublin)

Title: Interplay of Molecular Symmetry & Strong Correlations in Molecular Junctions Abstract: Single molecule transistors offer a fascinatingly diverse range of physics due to their ultrasmall size, chemical complexity, and strong electronic interactions. They constitute a playground for… Read More

DIAS scientists collect unique data from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

Unique ocean-bottom recordings of North Atlantic earthquakes and the songs of great baleen whales offshore Ireland have been obtained thanks to one of the boldest deep-ocean research projects ever undertaken in Europe. The SEA-SEIS project, led by scientists… Read More

Werner Nahm (DIAS)

Title: Euclidean Quantum Field Theory: Axioms and Automorphic Forms Abstract: The partition functions of euclidean quantum field theory can be described as functions on the moduli space of compact manifolds with Riemanninan metric that have few generalized derivatives. The conventional derivative with respect to the… Read More

Parameswaran Nair (City College of New York, CUNY)

Title: Entanglement in the Quantum Hall System and a Generalized Chern-Simons Form Abstract:  We analyze some features of the entanglement entropy for an integer quantum Hall state in comparison with ideas from relativistic field theory and noncommutative geometry…. Read More

Poetry Day Competition

Covers of prize books

To celebrate Poetry Day at DIAS we are again giving away two poetry books to one lucky winner: Irish Bardic Poetry Fuidheall Áir: Bardic poems on the Meic Dhiarmada of Magh Luirg c. 1377–c. 1637 Thanks to all… Read More

DIAS scientists to retrieve valuable seismometers and unique data from bottom of Atlantic Ocean

New insights into earthquakes off the Irish coast, the potential for enhanced tsunami warning systems, and the migration patterns of North Atlantic whales are among the topics on which key information will be obtained in the coming weeks,… Read More

Donal O’Connell (University of Edinburgh)

Title: Quantum Amplitudes & Classical Gravity Abstract: Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory have a number of surprising properties. They also provide a close link between Einstein gravity and Yang-Mills theory. We can exploit this link to simplify… Read More

Marking Earth Day 2020 at DIAS

Today – 22nd April – is Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual initiative that began in the US in 1970. It has now become a global environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in almost 200… Read More

Jürg Fröhlich (ETH Zürich)

Title: Kochen, Specker, Bell, and Others Abstract: Work of Ernst Specker (1960), Simon Kochen and Ernst Specker (1967), and John Bell (1964) concerning the non-existence of a hidden-variables theory reproducing the predictions of Quantum Mechanics is reviewed. Subsequently,… Read More

Anne Taormina (Durham University)

Title: Mathieu Moonshine: quarter BPS states at the Kummer point Abstract: The elliptic genus of K3 surfaces encrypts an intriguing connection between the sporadic group Mathieu 24 and non-linear sigma models on K3, dubbed `Mathieu Moonshine’. By restricting… Read More