Outreach


Note that most of the public outreach material is in Danish.

Teaching:
Teaching Assistant at the following courses:

  • Cosmology (Astro 1)
  • Computer Science for Physicists (Dat F)
  • NOT Observing course

  • Popular talks:
    Regular talks for high-school classes and astronomy associations on various astronomy related topics.
    Since I have snatched most of the pictures of the slide shows randomly from the web without caring too much about copyrights, I have removed the links, but drop me a line if you're interested...
  • Galaxies – the building blocks of the Universe
  • Cosmology
  • The dark, dark Universe
  • Stars – birth, life, and death
  • My research
  • Dust and galaxies
  • Spectroscopy and astronomy

  • Interviews:
  • At a furniture design exhibition in the Bella Center, May 2006, Hannah Heilmann of the designer trio Ingen Frygt ("no fear") put special emphasis on alternative views on the term "creation", resulting in this 19 minute interview about The Creation of the Universe
  • In an attempt to save Brorfelde Observatory, this documentary was made (in which I appear after 23:17 minutes)

  • Exhibition about Tycho Brahe aimed mainly at secondary school and high-school students, that took place in the National Museeum of Denmark

    Posters and flyers:
  • Poster for soliciting Master students in astronomy
  • Flyer explaining what we do at DARK

  • Anwers to readers:
  • For Lasse & David: On the end of the World
  • For Rasmus: On the beginning of the World
  • For Rasmus again: On the purpose of everything
  • For several worried friends and family members: On the killer potential of the LHC
  • For Ole: On negative mass and the creation of the Universe
  • For Søren: On the time of the Universe
  • For Søren again: More about time, on the expansion of the Universe, plus a little on General Relativity
  • ...and again for Søren: On the arrow of time
  • For M M: Om superluminal speed and the creation of the Universe
  • For David: On the speed of light in gravitational fields
  • For Torkild: On Olbers' paradox
  • For Tobias: On dark matter and dark energy
  • For Torkild: On the influence of matter on the structure of Space
  • For Torkild: On the homogeneity of the cosmic microwave background radiation
  • For Mikkel: On Earth without Moon
  • For Signe og Klaus: On Sagittarius A*