DAWN Newsletter

January 2024

D-LOCKS Workshop

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DAWN hosted the 1st DTU, Lund, Oslo, Chalmers, KU and Stockholm (D-LOCKS) workshop on the 11th and 12th of January 2024 at DTU.

It was successfully executed by DAWNers: Bitten Gullberg (LOC chair) Steve Gillman (co-LOC chair, SOC chair), Nikolaj Sillassen (LOC), Minju Lee (LOC), Iris Jermann (LOC) and Aswin Vijayan (LOC).

The workshop aimed to bring together observers and theorists in Scandinavia to discuss advances in modeling and observational techniques in extragalactic astronomy.

You can read more about the workshop here.

Well done everyone!

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PhD Defense by Clara!

On Thursday, 18 January 2024, Clara Giménez Arteaga successfully defended her PhD Thesis in the historically Aud. A at the Niels Bohr Institute!

The PhD Committe included: Supervisor Gabriel Brammer and Evaluation Committee: Sune Toft, Pablo Pérez-González (CAB) and Erin Alexandra 'Alex' Pope (UMASS).

You can read the PhD thesis here: Resolving Stellar Populations in Galaxies Across 13 Billion Years of Cosmic Time

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Welcome onboard!

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Welcome to our new PhD Student Rashmi Gottumukkala!

We had a small informal lunch with danish pastries to welcome Rashmi to DAWN. Rashmi will be working closely with Sune Toft as supervisor.

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Outreach

Albert Sneppen gave a great presentation in late November for 50 young participants for a special lecture aimed the next science-passionated generation.

Only 50 participants could enter the lecture, but 250+ children had signed up in the hope of participating!

Photo credit: Janne Koefoed Jørgensen

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Upcoming Events

♦ Cake Talks (ongoing) See the schedule here
♦ Inaugural Lecture by Jens-Kristian Krogager 09 Feb Read more here
♦ DG Annual Meeting 2024 22 Feb Venue: DTU: room 129+123 in building 328
♦ DAWN Day (DTU) TBD See the agenda in this link (Teams Group)
♦ DAWN SUMMIT 2024 15-17 Apr Venue: Festauditorium (A1-01.01 - Frederiksberg Campus)
♦ KU Festival 2024 31 May Read more here

Upcoming Guests

Alessio Mei (Gran Sasso Science Institute) 26 Jan 26 Apr
Caroline Heneka (Uni. of Heidelberg) 08 Feb 09 Feb
Erik Kool (University of Turku) 19 Feb 23 Feb
Seppo Mattila (University of Turku) 19 Feb 23 Feb
Nicholas (Nick) Vieira (McGill University) 02 Mar 09 Mar
35 x Guests / JADES meeting - Peter Jakobsen 15 Apr 17 Apr

Meet David Blánquez Sesé new member of the 1st Author Pub-Club!

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Hi everyone! My name is David Blánquez, a 3rd year Spanish PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Georgios Magdis who has so far focused on investigating why galaxies quench (stop forming stars) in the distant universe.

During my MSc thesis and the first part of my PhD I worked on studying the far-IR properties of quiescent galaxies, i.e. their cold interstellar medium. With the commissioning of JWST and the vast amount of data made available at DAWN, I thought it would be interesting to also explore the mid-IR emission of distant quiescent galaxies.

As a result of my publication, I have applied for more time on JWST in order to follow up on a few selected galaxies so if I’m awarded the time, surely I’ll produce a new study.

Fun fact: I never actually studied astrophysics, I come from an engineering background and during my MSc I decided to try and apply for a PhD position in Extragalactic astronomy. Luckily and unexpectedly, I got the position and here I am.

Lucky for us at DAWN too David!

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My study has provided robust evidence to support the existence of dust in distant quiescent galaxies and has also shown that the mid-IR properties of quiescent galaxies are quite similar for galaxies in the local universe and those at z ~ 0.3-0.5. This means that, in the mid-IR, quiescent galaxies have not changed or evolved much in the last 4 billion years, which is approximately one third of the universe’s lifetime.

OPPORTUNITIES & CALLS

♦ Conference: The Physics and Impact of Astrophysical Dust: from Star Formation Through Cosmology, Aspen 03-08 Mar Link is here
♦ Webinar: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship applications in Horizon Europe 11 Apr Read more and sign up here
♦ STScI’s Annual Spring Symposium 15-19 Apr Link is here
♦ Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VII: Stars, Gas & Dust in the Universe, Porto 29 Apr - 02 May Link is here
♦ The importance of involving students in modeling practices in physics (NBI) 07 May Read more and sign up here
♦ Conference: First Stars VII, CCA at the Flatiron Institute in New York 20-24 May Link is here
♦ ADAM 2024, Roskilde 22-23 May Link TBD
♦ Conference: "The physical processes shaping the stellar and gaseous histories of galaxies" - Pisa, Italy 27-31 May Link is here
♦ Webinar: Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Master Class 11 Jun Link is here
♦ The Line Intensity Mapping 2024 meeting, University of Illinois 12-14 Jun Link is here
♦ Conference "Galaxy Groups in the era of eROSITA and Euclid: a multiwavelength view”, Sesto 01-05 Jul Link is here
♦ Special Session SS8 at EAS2024, Padova, Italy 02 Jul Link is here
♦ Special Session SS12 at EAS2024, Padova, Italy 04 Jul Link is here
♦ IAU Symposium #391: The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST, Cape Town 06-09 Aug Read more here
♦ AGN Feedback and Star Formation Across Cosmic Scales and Time, Italy 02-06 Sep Read more here
♦ Workshop: ‘’Kochel CLAW" in Schloss Aspenstein, Kochelsee, Germany 30 Sep - 04 Oct Read more here
♦ The VILLUM Foundation: VILLUM Synergy Programme 21 Feb DTU link UCPH link
♦ VILLUM Experiment (preliminiary call) 06 Mar DTU link UCPH link
♦ The Carlsberg Foundation: Visiting Fellowships at University of Oxford 01 Apr DTU link UCPH link
♦ The Carlsberg Foundation: Internationalisation Fellowships 01 Apr DTU link UCPH link
♦ DFF: Project 1 17 Apr DTU link UCPH link

Danish Traditions & Culture

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Lightworks 2021 - Copenhagen Light FestivalCopenhagen Light Festival: When a new year begins, we often seek for new purposes and new energy to re-charge our life-batteries again. But in the cold and grey winter-weather in Denmark, this calls for extra help!

The event is an annual light festival that transforms the quiet and cold winter darkness into a unique celebration of light art, lighting design and illumination in the Center of Copenhagen.

Vision - Copenhagen Light FestivalIn three weeks of February the festival presents a wide range of light based works - such as sculpture, installation, projection mapping, event and illumination created by both established and upcoming light artists, lighting designers, students and organizations.

This year, the Copenhagen Light festival will take place from 02 February - 25 February 2024. You can read more and find the official program here.

Komplet fastelavnstønde sæt - et tilbud med alt hvad du skal bruge!_______________________________________________________________________________________

"Fastelavn" is a tradition dating back to the 16th century and is a mixture of Halloween and a carnival event. Fastelavn is celebrated in February and children dress up in costumes to take turns hitting a wooden barrel filled with candy and treats. It's similar to a piñata, although instead of sweets, a live black cat was traditionally inside of the barrel. (But don't worry! Nowadays, the cat has been switched out for the sweets and the barrel is simply decorated with a painted version of a black cat).

The barrel ritual ("Slå katten af tønden") has been practiced for centuries and the same rules still apply today. The game continues until the entire barrel is broken. The one who knocks the bottom off the barrel (causing all of the candy to spill out) becomes the kattedronning ("queen of cats"); the one who knocks off the last piece of the barrel becomes the kattekonge ("king of cats"). Historically, it was believed that beating the barrel and chasing the black cat symbolized demolishing evil and chasing it away. This was practiced up until the 1800s, with the last known event occurring in the 1880s. The cat was not killed, but allowed to escape when the barrel was broken. The practice was also popular in Holland and similar events were known to take place in Germany, called "Katzenschlagen”.

Den store guide: Disse 9 bagere serverer de bedste fastelavnsboller i Odense - Tips til Odense

Today, Fastelavn is mostly a fun tradition kept alive by young children at daycare institutions and primary schools. The best part of Fastelavn for adults is the Fastelavnsboller (sweet choux buns with thick cream or jam in the middle) Read more about Fastelavn, its origin and its traditions here.

 

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