DARK

Here you find Scientific publications by DARK researchers and Master's theses and Ph.D. theses by DARK students.

• Master's theses
• Ph.D. theses
• Scientific publications

• ESO facilities https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities.html, including VLT, ALMA
• ESA https://sci.esa.int/ & NASA facilities, including Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, Swift, Euclid
• Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) http://www.not.iac.es/
• Danish 1.5m telescope 
• Vera C. Rubin Observatory https://www.lsst.org/
• Greenland Telescope https://greenlandtelescope.dk/

Large collaborations

Computing

• Local DARK cluster: ~2000 cores, 1 Pb storage
• Access to national and international computing resources and storage
• Apple laptops

Large collaborations

• Young Supernova Experiment (YSE) https://yse.ucsc.edu/
• Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources at the Very Large Telescope (ENGRAVE) http://www.engrave-eso.org/
• Mirror-slicer Array for Astronomical Transients (MAAT) http://maat.iaa.es/
• LensWatch https://www.lenswatch.org/
• MIRI European Consortium (guaranteed time observations of high-redshift galaxies and SN 1987A)
• STARGATE (European GRB collaboration)
• Legacy Survey for Space and Time (LSST) https://www.lsst.org/

DARK offers Astronomy and Physics teaching and research training on Bachelor, Masters and Ph.D. level.

BSc and MSc students

The faculty at DARK teaches courses and supervises students in Astrophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. For the Astronomy and Physics programs and general rules of study, please refer to the University of Copenhagen sites:

• Bachelor in Physics, Astrophysics specialty (in Danish)
• Master's in Physics, Astrophysics program (in English)

PhD students

PhD projects are carried out in a dynamic international environment of daily interaction with the supervisors as well as other students, postdocs and staff at DARK. Typically projects involve state-of-the-art observations obtained at international observatories and/or new theoretical developments. Students typically complete one main project and 2 more 3 smaller projects.

In addition to research, PhD students have some teaching or other communications duties at the Niels Bohr Institute and they are required to take courses, which can be done at DARK or the NBI, through research-based independent projects, and by attending summer/winter schools or courses abroad.

• DARK expects students to develop a significant international network of collaborators.
• All of DARK's PhD students work on projects with researchers internationally, and they spend a significant amount of time abroad attending conferences and international schools, as well as for research stays at institutions abroad.
• DARK's research staff are very international, and they bring the benefits of their wide scientific networks to the Centre.

In addition, DARK hosts up to 100 visitors each year who contribute to DARK science in a number of ways; they infuse ideas and stimulate activity, add their expertise to on-going projects, get inspired and develop projects.

Visit the PhD School of Science

DARK also hosts Danish and international students for long- or short term studies and short-period visits.

The Visitor Programme is an integral part of DARK. Visitors contribute to DARK science in a number of ways; they infuse ideas and stimulate activity, add their expertise to on-going projects, get inspired and develop projects.

DARK's visitor program offers support for collaborators to come to DARK for short and long stays.  In the past 10 years, DARK has hosted more than than 1000 visits from scientists all over the world. 

Opportunities for visits

There is a wide range of opportunities, both regarding scope and duration of the visit. The main criterion is to optimize scientific return. We support short-duration visits of days to weeks as well as long-term visits up to 12 months. Visits of more than 2-3 weeks are strongly encouraged.  Our associates have a standing invitation to visit.

Categories for visits

Generally, visits fall into one of these categories:

• Scientists of world-recognized caliber in one of the areas of interest to DARK.
• Visitors who can contribute to DARK science-related activities.
• Those who would like to collaborate on a specific scientific project.

Visits can take many forms, for example, a single scientist or a research team of co-authors could come to DARK to work on or to finish a paper, to write an important application or proposal.  Suggestions for mini-workshops are also welcome.

Prospective visitors are kindly requested to complete the Visitor Application Form. Before submitting the form, prior contact to a DARK scientist is encouraged.

Support

Work space, computer access, and administrative support are offered to all visitors. 

Visitors are supported by the DARK admin team, who will help with all of the administrative aspects of the visit, including housing.  Any specific or unusual computing needs must be communicated prior to arrival.

The prospective visitor's host (a scientific collaborator at DARK) will introduce the visitor to the scientific and non-scientific life at DARK.

Niels Bohr Building, Jagtvej 155B, 2. floor, 2200 København N.

Head: Marianne Vestergaard, Professor
Phone: +45 35 32 59 09
Email: mvester@nbi.ku.dk