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Culture Night 2018 : Monitoring the Earth move

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies is a statutory corporation established in 1940 under the Institute for Advanced Studies Act of that year. It is a publicly-funded independent centre for research in basic disciplines. The Geophysics Section studies... Read More

Culture Night 2018 : DIAS Dunsink Observatory

Visit Dublin’s historical observatory and the home of Ireland’s greatest mathematician and scientist, William Rowan Hamilton. See the magnificent Victorian engineering of the South telescope and dome, built by Grubb of Dublin. Further Information : https://www.dunsink.dias.ie/

Forecasting the Unpredictable: earthquake science in a crowded world.

Schrödinger Theatre, Fitzgerald Building, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin

Abstract From Zhang Heng’s earliest seismoscope, to Dubliner Robert Mallet’s experiments on Killiney Beach and observations of the 1857 Neapolitan earthquake, scientists have tried to understand earthquakes and use this understanding to reduce their effect. Still, earthquakes have... Read More