Samhain agus Science: Sonnets for Samhain

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) conducts advanced studies exploring big questions of the 21stcentury and beyond. Its research gains insights into Celtic society and its legacy; progresses our understanding of our island, our planet and the universe; and deciphers the underpinning mathematical principles of nature.The Institute leads Ireland’s participation in a number of international and global initiatives that focus on big unanswered questions for mankind.When it was founded in 1940, DIAS was the world’s second-only institute for advanced studies – and the first such institute in Europe. For 80 years, it has pushed the boundaries of discovery and, today, it is a globally-embedded institution that attracts high-calibre researchers from all over the world in its core disciplines of Celtic Studies, Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics and Geophysics. DIAS Dunsink Observatory is a designated European site of historical significance for physics.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Join our panelist discussion on the origins and context of a sonnet sequence based on the life of physicist Erwin Schrödinger.

Samhain agus Science 2021

Samhain agus Science is an annual initiative of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies taking place each year during Halloween.

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, to discuss the origins and context of the sonnet sequence which is split into five parts corresponding largely to specific important locations in which Schrödinger lived during his lifetime. Erwin Schrödinger came to Ireland in 1939, at the invitation of Éamon de Valera, and was appointed as the first Director of the School of Theoretical Physics here at DIAS. About our SpeakerIggy McGovern is Fellow Emeritus in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin; he has published three collections of poetry with Dedalus Press, most recently The Eyes of Isaac Newton (2017). His awards include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary, the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry and the Hennessy Literary Award. A Mystic Dream of 4 (2013) and Making Waves (2021) are sonnet sequences based on the lives of William Rowan Hamilton and Erwin Schrödinger, respectively, and are published by Quaternia Press. This will be an online event hosted via Zoom. Registration is required to receive the attendance link.

Our {communityGuidelinesLink} describe the sort of content we prohibit on Eventbrite. If you suspect an event may be in violation, you can report it to us so we can investigate.

To report other categories of prohibited or illegal content, submit {link}