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these upgrades although it was almost certainly responsible for kick starting the process overall i think the new designation is probably a positive thing it is undoubtedly true that having a local university will make it easier to attract industry to the region and help to slow the brain drain of young people to the larger cities my main concern is that there has been very little information from the hea on the nuts and bolts of the change notably on how the change will impact staff contracts for example staff on the standard lecturer grade in the iots are currently contracted to be in class 16 hours a week this typically means teaching 4 different modules this teaching load is perfectly acceptable for a teaching college but is far above the norm for universities where staff are expected to be active in research indeed the difficulty in carrying out meaningful research on top of a heavy teaching load has long been a problem in the iot sector hopefully the new designation will see some improvement in this area 2 comments filed under uncategorized march 18 2022 8 20 pm st patrick s day in austria i thought i d take advantage of this year s double bank holiday for patrick s day to get away from it all so i m back in austria once again this time in bad hofgastein one of several beautiful small towns in the famous gastein valley it s another great austrian ski resort plenty of variety with lovely pistes above and below the treeline and easy connections to the neighbouring resorts of angelet and bad gastein there seem to be far more skiers here from austria and germany than from the uk always the sign of a local treasure the weather has been fine most days and more importantly the snow cover is as good as one can expect in march lunch on st patrick s day not a parade in sight i had a great few days my only complaint is that although the resort boasts quite a few ski touring routes the off piste skiing was in fact very challenging this is because it hasn t snowed in 3 weeks so anywhere unprepared had quite a hard crust in addition there are v few snowbaorders around a community i rely on when i m looking for company on a mad jaunt one of the few doable off piste tracks enjoyed this one last lift of the day by contrast the snow on piste is quite mushy and slow in the afternoons i quite like this sort of snow although a lot of people complain about it one suspects many of them never learnt how to absorb the bumps for the anoraks as always for spring snow i hired flexible soft skis with twin tips popular with free stylers in the snow park these skis are also really handy in soft lumpy snow perfect for short flexible turns close to the fall line as the main pistes turn into mogul fields late in the afternoon all in all a great break i ll be back comments off on st patrick s day in austria filed under uncategorized february 17 2022 4 31 pm mid term in tirol now that the covid threat appears to be receding i took advantage of the mid term break to take my first ski trip in quite a few years i grabbed the last seat on a cheap n cheerful package holiday to niederau a small village in tirol it s been an excellent week plenty of snow and good weather yet not too many people on the slopes niederau is a pretty small resort anyway but i suspect the ski season is pretty quiet this year because of travel hesistancy due to covid i ve been in niederau once before and it s just as i remember it lots of nice runs not too many people lovely old fashioned hotel with a swimming pool that seems to be open 24 hours i learnt to ski as a child so i do a few hours work in the mornings while others are at ski school and head out to the slopes in the afternoon hard to beat as a holiday had this run to myself all day found it hard to leave 2 comments filed under uncategorized january 11 2022 11 39 am why don t third level colleges postpone the second semester until february like many third level colleges in ireland wit is set to resume face to face teaching next week thus the college will begin the second semester of the academic year at a time when the covid infection rate is running at over 20 000 a day surely close to peak omicron to be sure there is little question that online learning is a poor substitute for face to face teaching but the obvious solution is to delay the second semester for a few weeks rather than put the health of many thousands of staff and students at unnecessary risk one wonders why colleges have not explored this option it s not as if postponing the onset of the second college semester would impose a great hardship on students in many countries a long break after the first semester exams is the norm in third level colleges indeed i recall a great deal of talk about a long break in january when semesterization was first introduced to third level colleges in ireland although it never materialized perhaps the problem lies at the other end of the semester it s hard to see why ending lectures in may rather than april would pose an insurmountable problem yet one suspects this is indeed the problem it seems to be an inviolable law of academia that all college lectures must cease in april i ve never quite understood this law although i must admit i don t question it much given the heavy teaching loads during the semester almost all research is done outside the teaching weeks but why the college as a whole must grind to a halt in april irrespective of exceptional circumstances is far from clear all in all it seems that an opportunity for colleges to show flexibility during a difficult period has been missed no doubt politicians and college managements will claim inflexibility on the side of the teaching unions while the unions will retort that no suggestion of a delay was put to them whatever the reason college staff and students across the country face a daunting term with a high probability of infection not to mention teaching classes that are severely depleted by both infections and close contacts 2 comments filed under uncategorized january 3 2022 10 15 pm last day of the hols today marked the last day of our college christmas break i must say i quite enjoyed spending the break up here in kilternan dublin despite the scary onset of yet another variant of covid 19 one welcome surprise was that a paper i had undertaken to write for a nasa anthology on astronomical testing of einstein s theories turned out to be very satisfying and took much less time to write than i expected sometimes procrastination is a good thing i suspect my subconscious had been hard at work during the teaching semester in any event the article was pretty much all there once i sat down at the keyboard another welcome surprise was that the weather has been unusually mild for this time of year allowing for plenty of tennis and even some surfing like many people i haven t been willing to take the risk of a ski holiday while covid is still on the rampage and i really miss the snow that said i have been cutting down on ski holidays quite a bit in recent years even without taking the flights into account it is not the most environment friendly of sports instead i ve been trying to replace skiing with surfing quite a sacrifice as i m not a very good surfer at all surfing at magharamor beach last weekend contrary to popular opinion there is quite a decent surf beach just south of dublin i ve been trekking down there with my longboard quite a few times recently it s true the conditions tend to oscillate from slightly too small to far too wild but it s all good exercise that said i really need to get myself a warmer wetsuit for the winter all in all a very enjoyable break and a change is as good as a rest i m quite looking forward to going back to college tomorrow to collect my exam scripts and make a start on correcting but i m certainly not looking forward to resuming face to face lecturing on jan 14th it seems crazy that even in the face of a resurgent global pandemic college management and the teacher s union couldn t agree to start the second semester a month later just this once comments off on last day of the hols filed under uncategorized september 30 2021 6 05 pm response to covid 19 and climate change a remarkable divergence this article appeared in the irish times on 30th september 2021 as the year 2021 progressed a remarkable divergence between the global response to the covid 19 pandemic and to climate change became ever more apparent considering covid 19 first there is little question that the tide has turned in this war the use of selective lockdowns masking and social distancing measures followed by widespread vaccination dramatically slowed the spread of the disease indeed these measures proved so successful in countries like ireland that some commentators have taken to criticising the government for being overly cautious in the measures it took to combat the disease i don t subscribe to this view one reason is that an exponential rate of growth left unchecked can quickly become unstoppable another is the emergence of the delta variant which proved highly infectious among unvaccinated people and also resulted in a significant number of breakthrough infections among the vaccinated indeed it remains to be seen how severe the impact of the delta variant will be in primary school children most of whom are unvaccinated as regards second and third level education i was somewhat disappointed vaccination was not made mandatory for all staff and students after all we are institutes of education no doubt there are complex legal reasons for this but it certainly makes everyday life difficult from teachers and lecturers having to deliver class through a mask to students attempting to observe social distancing in the classroom overall it could be said that the war against covid 19 has been won mainly due to the use of widespread vaccination the main worry now is to ensure that similar vaccination programmes take place in the poorest nations not least because of the possibility of the emergence of new variants that could prove to be vaccine resistant global warming as regards the climate crisis the situation is very different despite a great many reports resolutions and international meetings there has been almost no slowing in the rise of greenhouse gas emissions or in the rise of mean global temperature indeed even the global shutdown in the year 2020 2021 had a barely discernible impact on the seemingly inexorable rise in emissions and surface temperature thus it appears that we are losing the war in the long term theatre of climate change this a matter of great concern it should be obvious that the longer it takes to bend the curve on emissions the more severe our corrective action will need to be in addition many climate scientists point to the existence of likely tipping points in global warming i e points of no return such as the collapse of enormous ice sheets yet some commentators continue to emphasise the uncertainties in climate change in particular the uncertainty in climate sensitivity defined as the rise in mean global temperature produced by a doubling of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere this seems to me to be an odd approach akin to asking how many cancer cells are produced by a single cigarette given that we have not managed to slow the rise of emissions to date the current trajectory is clear it is simply a question of time before we sail past a catastrophic tipping point if action is not taken so what is the solution is there a vaccine for climate change the good news is that the very fact that global warming is a result of human activity implies that the solution is at hand it is a matter of making the necessary changes to human activity from land use to the burning of fossil fuels from the obsession with relentless economic growth to a reconsideration of unnecessary enterprises such as space tourism in recent years it has become a mantra among some journalists that the solution to climate change lies in the actions of the individual there is some truth to this but given the scale of the challenge governments also have a vital role to play the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy or from cars to public transport are choices that can be facilitated only by strong government most importantly the national governments of the world need to co operate on action rather than indulging in fruitless bouts of whataboutery with this in mind it will be interesting to see what comes out of the cop26meeting in edinburgh in november dr cormac o raifeartaigh lectures in physics at waterford institute of technology and blogs at http www antimatter ie comments off on response to covid 19 and climate change a remarkable divergence filed under uncategorized june 5 2021 11 04 am online international conference on the history of physics yesterday i participated in a virtual conference on the history of physics the event supported by the institute of physics and the european physics society formed part of an ongoing series of international conferences on the history of physics a biennial series of meetings that aims to bring together professional historians and physicists with an interest in the history of their subject i have been involved with the organization of these conferences for some time now and it was great to see this year s version an online conference go off without a hitch there were many interesting talks spanning across several centuries of physics such as the ghost of galileo and the spirit of copenhagen john heilbron to g or not to g jh poynting and the gravitational constant in the 19 th century isobel falconer the marie curie effect patricia fara political opportunism and friendly disservice on the premature nobel prize to otto hahn and the missed nobel prize to lise meitner karl grandin the rayleigh archive unpublished correspondence with kelvin and others paul ranford changes in the measurement and understanding of electromotive force hasok chang the full programme can be found here i myself chaired the session containing the last two talks above this was quite a challenging task as i felt i should come up with a few decent questions after each talk to give members of the audience some time to type in theirs the last session of the conference saw a lovely tribute in the form of poetry reminiscences and music to our late colleague peter schuster an inspirational figure in the history of physics and one of the founders of this series of conferences sadly peter passed away quite suddenly last year all in all a most enjoyable conference not for the first time i found myself hoping that at least some conferences will stay online in the future comments off on online international conference on the history of physics filed under uncategorized tagged as history and philosophy of science december 31 2020 9 09 pm a year of triumph for modern science this article of mine was pubished in the irish times on 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