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| Personal facts, education & experience |
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Jan-Erik Ovaldsen |
| Email |
ovaldsen gmail.com |
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not available, please use email |
| Home page |
http://folk.uio.no/jeovalds |
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| Oct. 2008– Dec. 2009 |
Staff at the Norwegian node of The International Year of Astronomy 2009 |
| Sep. 2005– June 2007 |
Research (PhD level, astronomy), Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Univ. of Oslo |
| June 2002 |
Cand.Scient (Master of Science equivalent), Astronomy |
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Courses: Astrophysics, Mathematics, Physics, Information Technology, Statistics, Geo-physics, Philosophy |
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| Languages |
Norwegian, English, plus some German and Spanish |
| Computing exp. |
IDL, IRAF, Simula (similar to C++), LaTeX, some HTML, UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X, Pages (mac), Word, basic Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver and CMS (Joomla and WordPress) |
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| Other experience |
Involved in various book projects, both as an author, translator and consultant. Also worked with public outreach related to astronomy, including the International Year of Astronomy 2009 and translation of ESO's web pages and press releases (via ESO's Science Outreach Network) |
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Publications/
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Research: see Scientific publications |
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Popular science:
- Himmelkalenderen ("The Sky Calendar"): astronomical handbook and almanac published annually in Norway
- Himmelen sett fra Jorda ("The Heavens seen from Earth"): large format astronomical picture book published in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland
- Vårt fantastiske univers ("Our amazing universe"): 60 page educational booklet about astronomy
- Venus-passasjen 2012 ("The 2012 Transit of Venus"): 12 page booklet |
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| Conferences, workshops etc. |
2006, 20 Nov.–1 Dec.: XVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, "The Emission Line Universe" (Tenerife, Spain) |
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2006, 5–9 June: Swift and GRBs: Unveiling the Relativistic Universe (Venice, Italy) |
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2005, 14–17 Dec.: Cosmology 2005: A reality check (Dark Cosmology Centre, Cobenhagen, Denmark) |
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2004, 11–16 Apr.: Mitchell Symposium on Observational Cosmology (Texas A&M Univ., USA) |
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2004, 26–30 Jan.: Mathematical Challenges in Astronomical Imaging (UCLA, USA) |
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2003, 1 Sep.–31 Dec.: Research Associate, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Univ. of Oslo (Norway) |
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2003, 1–12 July: NorFA Summer School on Observational Astrophysics (La Palma, Spain) |
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2001, 4–6 June: GLITP Workshop in Gravitational Lens Monitoring (IAC, Tenerife, Spain) |
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