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On Thursday, 30 May 2024, Minju Lee, Anne Hutter and Jasleen Matharu were among the researchers who spoke at this great great public talk event that gathered more than 100 people! After the session, they received a lot of questions and positive responses relevant to their talks.
- Minju's presentation was on the introduction of studies of the large-scale structures with JWST. She described how to find distant overdense environments and how their mass can be measured by gravitational lensing.
- Anne's presentation involved simulations, which are used when modeling the early universe. This evening, she enlightened us on the many scientific possibilities of JWST’s findings, and how simulations can help scientists predict what to expect from James Webb and future telescopes.
- Jasleen's presentation aimed on processing and analyzing data from telescopes, such as JWST, that is crucial for making new scientific discoveries, and Jasleen is working on developing software for doing precisely this. She aims to use data from the telescope to explore some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe.
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The great discovery happened via JWST, which has given the world the first 'live observations' of galaxies in the process of being formed.
For the first time in the history of astronomy, DAWNers have witnessed the birth of three of the universe's absolute earliest galaxies between 13.3 and 13.4 billion years ago!
The study was led by Kasper Heintz and was published in Science, where the team created the first direct measurement of cold, neutral gas that later formed stars within and around some of the earliest galaxies observed with JWST.
Read the full article in Science here and read the news story on the result and team behind at NASA's webpage here:
DAWNers that have contributed to this great discovery: Kasper E. Heintz, Darach Watson, Gabriel Brammer, Simone Vejlgaard, Anne Hutter, Victoria Strait, Pascal Oesch, Peter Laursen, Charlotte Mason, Meghana Killi & Sune Toft.
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On Tuesday, 25 June 2024, Katriona Gould successfully defended her PhD Thesis.
The PhD Committe included: Supervisor Gabriel Brammer, Co-Supervisor Francesco Valentino and Evaluation Committee: Pascal Oesch, Mariska Kriek (Leiden University) and Ross McLure (The University of Edinburgh).
You can read the PhD Thesis here: Ultra red galaxies in the distant universe: The first quiescent galaxies and their hidden progenitors
Big congratulations to Kate!
On Tuesday, 21 May 2024 we held a wonderful event in collaboration with Maren Malling from KIF (Kvinder i Fysik) and the 'opening' of the atrium at the Niels Bohr Building named after Julie Vinter Hansen.
It involved our own emeritus Erik Høg, Svend Laustsen and Jørgen Otzen, who all have worked under the leadership of 'VH' as her nickname became at that time.
Julie Vinter Hansen was the first danish woman to obtain a scientific degree in astronomy and to hold an appointment at the University of Copenhagen.
You can read the report and manuscript of the interesting speeches here.
OPPORTUNITIES & CALLS
| ♦ Conference "Galaxy Groups in the era of eROSITA and Euclid: a multiwavelength view”, Sesto | 01-05 Jul | Link is here |
| ♦ Workshop: The Edinburgh-DAWN Workshop (Copenhagen) | 26-28 Aug | Link and program |
| ♦ Conference: Black Holes Inside and Out (Copenhagen) | 26-30 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 |
| ♦ VILLUM Foundation: Villum Investigators | 21 Aug | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Advanced Grant | 29 Aug | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ Horizon Europe - Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) | 11 Sep | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ DFF Independent Research Fund Denmark: Project 2 | 08 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ DFF Independent Research Fund Denmark: Sapere Aude | 10 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Starting Grant (Preliminary call) | 15 Oct | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Synergy Grant (Preliminary call) | 06 Nov | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ Horizon Europe - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks - preliminary call | 27 Nov | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Consolidator Grant (Preliminary call) | 14 Jan | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ DFF Independent Research Fund Denmark: Project 1 | 29 Apr | DTU link | UCPH link |
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