About the workshop
The James Webb Space Telescope is ushering in a new era in studying the earliest epochs of the Universe. Dubbed the “First Light Machine”, JWST is already revealing unprecedented insights and unexpected mysteries about the first galaxies that lit up the Universe during the so-called Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). Situating and contextualising these ground-breaking observations within our current models of how galaxies like our Milky Way came to be is a forefront challenge in astrophysics today.
Edinburgh’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) and Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) are two of the leading institutes involved in utilizing JWST and other observations to probe the EoR. This workshop is the second of two bringing together DAWN and IfA astrophysicists working on early galaxy evolution, with the goal of creating synergies and fostering collaborations that will strengthen and benefit researchers at both institutes.
Time and venue
The meeting will take place on 26–28 August at the Cosmic Dawn Center, Copenhagen.
SOC
- IfA
- Fergus Cullen, Romeel Davé, Jim Dunlop
- DAWN
- Thomas Greve, Charlotte Mason, Sune Toft
Registration
To register, please fill out this form.
There is no registration fee, and travel funding is available for a limited number of participants from the non-host institute. Lunch, coffee breaks, and a workshop dinner are included. This workshop is generously funded by the Edinburgh – Copenhagen Strategic Partnership Seed Fund, with additional support from the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics.
List of participants
Participants will be listed here as they register.
Schedule
Talks are likely to be 10–20 minutes + 5–10 minutes for questions depending on the number of participants. The schedule will be finalised after registration is closed
Program TBA.
Dinner for the participants:
Restaurant SILO, Helsinkigade 29, 17. Etage, 2150 Nordhavn
Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Time: starting at 19:00
Local information
Getting there
The workshop will take place at the DAWN's location in the Niels Bohr Building, meeting room 02.2.I.158, Rådmandsgade 64, 2nd floor (counting from 0).
Busses 6A and 5C will take you from Nørreport in the center of the city. Alternatively, it's a good 30 minutes' walk.
From the Central Station, you can take metro line M3 "via Frederiksberg" eight stops, getting off at Skjold's Plads, from where it's a 10 minutes' walk.
Nørreport is the 9th stop.
Accommodation
Participants should arrange their own accommodations, but a list of recommendations can be found here: