School of Physical Sciences - Seminar Series
Seminars take place at various venues across the Glasnevin Campus, Dublin 9. Please refer to the Glasnevin Campus map for directions.
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Thursday 17/09/2026 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. David Long | Probing Particle Acceleration by Global Shocks in the Solar Atmosphere. |
N201 & Zoom (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 08/10/2026 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Huw Leggate | A Year in Artificial Intelligence. |
N201 & Zoom (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 15/10/2026 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Oisín Creaner | Scalability, Simulations, Satellites and Sensors |
N201 & Zoom (Marconi Building) |
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Monday 13/04/2026 3:00 - 4:00 |
Prof Satoshi Hamaguchi | Molecular dynamics simulation of atomic layer processing: challenges in the era of AI |
N222 (Marconi Building) |
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Tuesday 07/04/2026 11:00 - 12:00 |
Dr. Laura Hayes | The Flaring Sun: X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Diagnostics from Solar Orbiter |
N222 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 04/12/2025 11:00 - 12:00 |
Andrea Mesoraca | Exploring the link between the photospheric velocity driver and the FIP bias in the corona |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Friday 21/11/2025 12:00 - 1:00 |
Constantin Zankl | Form Physical Resources to Permissionless Blockchains |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Wednesday 08/10/2025 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Brian van Soelen | Spectro-Polarimetric Observations of TeV sources (SPOTS) |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Tuesday 09/09/2025 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Steven Lisgo | Elpis - an alternative pathway for nuclear fusion |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Monday 28/07/2025 12:00 - 1:00 |
Prof. Wonho Choe | Electric wind and water surface stabilization under impingement of a jet plasma: the Electrohydrodynamic story |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Tuesday 13/05/2025 12:00 - 1:00 |
Dr. Christoph Herwig | Digital Twins in the Biotech Industry: Prerequisites and Potentials |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Tuesday 01/04/2025 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Paul van Kampen | The 2D Heat Equation |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 27/03/2025 12:00 - 1:00 |
Prof. Klaus Drese | Acoustic multilayer characterization for quantitative condition monitoring of hip prostheses |
N222 (Marconi Building) |
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Tuesday 11/03/2025 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Tomo Murakami | Mathematical analysis to clarify how reaction networks grow in plasmas |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 06/03/2025 12:15 - 1:15 |
Prof. Jens Ducrée | Virtualized Development, Manufacture, Testing, and Optimization of Highly Integrated Centrifugal Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Disc Systems |
HG06 (ALICE REEVES) |
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Thursday 06/02/2025 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Eleanor Dunn | Are You Ready For It? Exploring the seismology behind Taylor Swift and its potential for science communication |
HG08 (ALICE REEVES) |
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Wednesday 04/12/2024 12:00 - 1:00 |
Dr. Andy Shu Ho To | Strange Coronal Composition and Where to Find Them |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 28/11/2024 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Gerhard Ulbricht | Astronomical Instrumentation with Superconducting Detectors: Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) for Astronomy |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 21/11/2024 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Brian van Solen | Using the Southern African Large Telescope to understand High Energy Sources |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 14/11/2024 12:00 - 1:00 |
Prof. Heinrich Wörtche | Edge Technologies in Industry and Human Care: Smart Sensors, Embedded AI, and Biodegradable Solutions |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Wednesday 13/11/2024 12:00 - 1:00 |
Philip J. Ryan | Nematicity, Ferromagnetic Superconductivity, and Quantum Paraelectricity: In-Situ Uniaxial Strain & X-Ray Scattering |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 31/10/2024 12:00 - 1:00 |
Prof. Nan Zhang | Towards defects-free mass production of plastic microfluidic devices: fundamentals and applications |
N201 (Marconi Building) |
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Tuesday 17/09/2024 4:00 - 5:00 |
Ryan Magee | Spatially resolved atomic hydrogen densities and optical emission in a capacitively coupled plasma using two- photon absorption laser induced fluorescence and phase resolved optical emission spectroscopy |
N222 (Marconi Building) |
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Monday 29/04/2024 12:00 - 1:00 |
Prof. Steven Pollock | A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division physics courses. |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Friday 01/03/2024 2:00 - 3:00 |
Dr. David Long | Why should we care about the Sun? |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 30/11/2023 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Robert Wallace | Physical Characterization of Advanced Device Materials |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 16/11/2023 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Enrico Bozzo | Probing massive star winds with SgXBs: current status, recent efforts, and future perspectives |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 19/10/2023 1:00 - 2:00 |
Alberto Canisares | Multilateration of Type III solar radio bursts using the BayEsian LocaLization Algorithm (BELLA) |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Friday 26/05/2023 3:00 - 4:00 |
Dr. Mahua Biswas | Engineering Nanomaterial Patterns for Emerging Technologies |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 06/04/2023 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Oisín Creaner | Developing a research group in DCU focused on explanet observartion |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 30/03/2023 1:00 - 2:00 |
Thomas Frederiksen | π-magnetism and transport in graphene nanostructures |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 23/03/2023 2:00 - 3:00 |
Dr. Masha Chernyakova | Extreme accelerators on the high energy sky |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 16/03/2023 2:00 - 3:00 |
Prof. Klaus Drese | Acoustic Waves as a Tool for Sensing |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Tuesday 28/02/2023 12:00 - 1:00 |
Prof. Charles W. Clark | Generation, Detection and Application of Twisted Waves of Light and Neutrons |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 23/02/2023 2:00 - 3:00 |
Dr. Patrick Kavanagh | James Webb Space Telescope observations of the iconic supernova SN1987A |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 16/02/2023 2:00 - 3:00 |
Prof. Fengzhou Fang | High effective laser assisted ultra-precision machining of brittle materials |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 09/02/2023 2:00 - 3:00 |
Daniela Rupp | Ultrafast dynamics in clusters followed with Coherent Diffraction Imaging |
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Thursday 08/12/2022 2:00 - 3:00 |
Prof. Jens Ducrée | Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Wednesday 30/11/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Walter Perrie | Ultrafast laser-materials micro-machining with Structured Light |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Friday 18/11/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Federico Corni | The Role of Metaphors in Teacher Education in Physics |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 03/11/2022 2:00 - 3:00 |
Dr. Mossy Kelly | The Teaching-Research Nexus: Symbiosis or Zero-Sum? Examples from applied physics teaching and research |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 27/10/2022 12:00 - 1:00 |
Dr. Duane Deardorff | Physics Activities for the Life Sciences (PALS) |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 13/10/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Marcus Brüggen | The non-thermal Universe or the biggest accelerators in the Cosmos |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 29/09/2022 12:00 - 1:00 |
Professor Philip Moriarty | Towards 3D Printing, Atom By Atom? (...or The Trouble With Tips) |
N115 (Marconi Building) |
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Thursday 10/03/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Graham Kells | Weak measurement, quantum trajectories, and topological order |
SA217 & Zoom (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 10/03/2022 2:00 - 3:00 |
Dr. Brian Hare | LIFT: Lightning corona Imaging From a radio Telescope |
SA217 & Zoom (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 03/03/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Alexandra Fogg | An assessment of Solar Wind - Magnetosphere - Ionosphere coupling using terrestrial radio emissions | Zoom | |
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Thursday 17/02/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Síle Nic Chormaic | Manipulating and trapping particles using evanescent light fields |
SA217 & Zoom (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 17/02/2022 2:00 - 3:00 |
Dr. Nuala M. Caffrey | Between the Sheets: Adsorbents and Intercalants in 2D Layered Materials |
SA217 & Zoom (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 10/02/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Julio Arrechea | Semiclassical relativistic stars |
SA217 & Zoom (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 03/02/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Anna Scaife | AI for Astronomy in the SKA Era | Zoom | |
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Thursday 27/01/2022 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Ruth Saunders | Belonging and Equity in Physics |
SA217 & Zoom (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 09/12/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr Sean Kelly | Plasma-based conversion: a focus on Nitrogen fixation | Zoom | |
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Thursday 02/12/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Serguei Komissarov | Electric charge of black holes and the Blandford-Znajek mechanism | Zoom | |
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Thursday 25/11/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr Lewys Jones | Performance, flexibility & sustainability in electron microscopy: the impossible dream? |
SA217 (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 18/11/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Samuel McKeague | Observing High-Mass X-ray Binaries with Athena X-IFU |
SA217 (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 11/11/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Stephen Power | Valley, spin and electronic transport phenomena in two-dimensional nanostructures |
SA217 (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 04/11/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Jens Ducrée | Decentralized Science - Ingredients, Opportunities and Challenges |
SA217 (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 28/10/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Matthew Snelgrove | Characterising Infiltration Techniques in Polymer Area Selective Deposition |
SA217 (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 21/10/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Mark Wardle | Cosmic Rays in the Centre of the Galaxy | Zoom | |
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Thursday 14/10/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Xavier Calmet | Quantum Gravitational Corrections to the Entropy of a Schwarzschild Black Hole | Zoom |
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Tuesday 13/04/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. John Goold | Taking the temperature of a pure quantum state | Zoom | |
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Tuesday 30/03/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Caitriona Jackman | Planetary Space Weather | Zoom | |
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Thursday 25/03/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Jens Ducrée | A blockchain-orchestrated, participatory research model boosted by open platforms and virtualization | Zoom | |
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Thursday 18/03/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Timo Gans | Controlled plasma dynamics and non-equilibrium chemical kinetics for next generation plasma technologies | Zoom | |
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Thursday 11/03/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. Deborah O'Connell | Disruptive plasma approaches for tackling global challenges | Zoom | |
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Thursday 04/03/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Gráinne Walsh | Supporting female belonging in physics: staff student partnership in the SOPHia school visit programme | Zoom | |
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Thursday 25/02/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Prof. John Costello | Photoionization of Rare Gases in Intense X-ray and Optical Laser Fields | Zoom | |
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Thursday 11/02/2021 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr Steve Campbell | A short tour of quantum speed limits | Zoom | |
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Thursday 12/03/2020 1:00 - 2:00 |
Gráinne Walsh | Supporting female belonging in physics: staff student partnership in the SOPHia school visit programme |
SA106 (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 05/03/2020 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Fergal O'Reilly | Soft Wet X-rays for 3D Biological Cell Imaging |
SA106 (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Thursday 27/02/2020 1:00 - 2:00 |
Dr. Shane O'Sullivan | Constraining intergalactic magnetic fields with LOFAR |
SA106 (STOKES EXTENSION) |
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Wednesday 12/02/2020 3:00 - 4:00 |
Ciara Maguire | Shock waves in the solar corona |
HG22 (ALICE REEVES) |
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Wednesday 22/01/2020 3:00 - 4:00 |
Dr. Cormac Purcell | Sharks, Tombs and Cosmic bubbles: How machine learning spans diverse scientific fields |
XG22 (Lonsdale Building) |