Previous DIAS O'Donovan Scholar, Dr Nike Stam opens this years Samhain agus Science festival, describing the challenges of bringing Celtic Studies to new audiences. Dr Nike Stam, creator of the School of Celtic Studies Podcast, joins us to... Read More
As part of our Samhain agus Science mini-festival and Dark Matter Day 2021, we present "The Dark Side of the Universe", a talk delivered by Prof. Katherine Freese. Prof. Freese will recount the ongoing search for understanding the... Read More
Sound artist & composer David Stalling has collaborated with a team of seismologists at DIAS, led by Sergei Lebedev (now a DIAS Adjunct Professor, and at Cambridge University), since 2018. What has emerged is a new set of... Read More
Poet and Physicist Iggy McGovern will present a selection of poems from his most recent book: Making Waves, a sonnet sequence based on the life of Erwin Schrödinger. Joining Professor McGovern will be Dr. Ian Jubb, of DIAS,... Read More
Our final day of Samhain agus Science events begins at 1pm, when Dr Martin Möllhoff of DIAS Geophysics will explain why Hekla is to this day frequently referred to as 'gateway to hell'. It's volcanic activity since the... Read More
Join us for our final talk of Samhain agus Science 2021 where Dr Erin Higgins looks at end of life black holes. The most massive stars in our Universe collapse to form black holes at the end of... Read More
The purpose of this conference is to survey the various forms that Platonism has taken in Ireland’s history (from the seventh century to the present) in a broad sense which includes the development of Platonic ideas implicit in... Read More
DIAS is delighted to welcome the award-winning Science Integrity consultant Dr. Elisabeth Bik to present our 2022 DIAS Day Lecture. The Dark Side of Science: Misconduct in Research Science builds upon science. Even after peer-review and publication, science... Read More
From the first ever Irish experiment in space, to landmark insights on volcanoes, the School of Cosmic Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) has played a leading role in strengthening our understanding of the world... Read More
The Armagh-Dunsink-Harvard telescope (ADH) was the first major international project undertaken by Dunsink Observatory following the observatory’s re-opening as part of DIAS’ School of Cosmic Physics (founded in 1947). The ADH was the brainchild of Eric Lindsay, Director... Read More
