Photo Credit: Dulce Sanders
Dave Sanders, Dulce Sanders and Sune Toft. Photo Credit: Dulce Sanders
Meet Simone Vejlgaard Nielsen - DAWN PhD Student and selected Summer School Student at the Vatican Observatory in Rome!
June 2023 is a month I will never forget! Together with 25 students representing 20 different countries, I was selected to participate in this year’s Vatican Observatory Summer School which took place in a picturesque old abbey near Albano, southeast of Rome. These historical surroundings served as the setting for our lectures, where we were taught the frontiers of data science tools for astronomical applications by excellent professors such as Viviana Acquaviva, Željko Ivezić, and Stefano Christiani.
Besides attending inspiring lectures and engaging in hands-on tutorials, I also had the opportunity to initiate a new project collaboration. I already find myself missing the entire team, and I genuinely hope they will continue to excel in their exciting research upon returning to their respective home countries.”
OPPORTUNITIES & CALLS
| ♦ Scientific Communication in Astronomy School 2nd Edition - Italy | 02-06 Oct | Link is here |
| ♦ "Young Astronomers on Galactic Nuclei" (YAGN23) in Italy | 18-20 Oct | Link is here |
| ♦ Conference: First Stars VII, CCA at the Flatiron Institute in New York | 20-24 May, 2024 | Link - TBD |
| ♦ Conference: "The physical processes shaping the stellar and gaseous histories of galaxies" - Pisa, Italy | 27-31 May 2024 | Link is here |
| ♦ Horizon Europe - Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) | 13 Sept | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ The Carlsberg Foundation: Semper Ardens: Accerlerate (preliminary) | 01 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ The Carlsberg Foundation's annual call: Research Infrastructure | 01 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF): Sapere Aude 2023 | 10 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ Independent Research Fund Denmark: Project 2 (DFF) | 11 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Starting Grant (preliminary) | 25 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ Independent Research Fund Denmark: International Postdoc (DFF) | 31 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Synergy Grant (preliminary) | 08 Nov | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Consolidator Grant (preliminary) | 12 Dec | DTU link | UCPH link |
Danish Traditions & Culture
DHL Relay Race: In 1980, the athletic club Sparta Chairman Niels Jørgen Holdt, was travelling in the USA and saw a commercial for a company-relay and decided that Denmark should also have this kind of event. Upon his return to Denmark, he began coordinating the DHL Relay Race which takes place every year and has become very popular.
The first DHL Relay Race was held in 1981 in the park called Fælledparken (just between the old Niels Bohr Institute and the new Niels Bohr Building). Later other greater Danish cities joined in with Aarhus in 1983 and Aalborg and Odense in 2003. The number of runners has also expanded greatly over the years. In the first DHL Relay Race, 134 teams participated with a total of 670 runners. In 2022 the number of teams was 23,428 with a total of 117,140 runners/walkers! It makes it the largest Relay Race in the world.
When the DHL Relay is opened for the run, it is not only the baton that are handed over, but also a trust within the next runner, that will provide all the energy that the runners has and do ones ultimate best for the team. The symbolic in the event is precisely why the transport and logistical company DHL has been the main sponsor of this relay race for +30 years. Along with the motto: We are running a relay for our customers every day, all year - in the entire world.