Brian Lindgren Jensen

Personal data:

      Name: Brian Lindgren Jensen
     Title: Cand.scient (physics/astronomy), IT Manager/Research Assistant
    Office: RK 113
     Phone: +45 3532 5979
       Fax: +45 3532 5989
        At: Dark Cosmology Centre,


   Address: Dark Cosmology Centre
            Juliane Maries Vej 30 
            DK-2100 København Ø Denmark

     Email: brian_j@dark-cosmology.dk,


Employment: IT Manager/Research Assistant at DARK Cosmology Centre (Jun. 2005 -- Aug. 2010)
            Research Assistant at AO, at the "Reinvigorating the GRB ToO program at the NOT" project
                (funded by IDA and NOT) (Jul. 2004 -- Jun. 2005).
            Project developer on the Cosmological Calculator
                (AVO project, funded by NIK) (May 2004 -- Jun. 2004).
            Project developer on the Urania Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO)
                (Funded by DCN and NIK) (Jan. 2002 -- Nov. 2002).
            Web-adminstrator for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) (1998 -- 2001).
            Teaching Assistant for Dat.F. (First-year computer/programming course, fall semester '99).
            Lecturer+organiser at Åbent hus arrangement (1998 -- 2001).
            Co-editor on Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 11A+B (proceedings of the XXIIIrd General Assembly of the IAU 1997).
            Lecturer+organiser at HCØ-dage (1998 -- 2001).
            Lecturer at the course: Astronomisk Nyt fra Forskningsfronten (1997 -- 1998).
            Astronomical guide at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium (1996 -- 1998).
            Internet guide at Midtfyns Festival (1995).
            Postarbejder and Team Supervisor at Post Danmark (1994 -- 1999).
            External IT consultant for Digital Equipment Coporation (DEC) (25 hours -- 1989).
            Assistant supervisor at Søholm Champignon-gartneri (1987 -- 1992)

Activities: Member of the AO Board (student representative, June 1998 -- March 2002).
            Participated in the IAU XXIVth General Assembly, August 7-18, 2000.
            Participated in the Extragalactic Astronomy & Cosmology from Space, Summer School, July 18-27, 2000.
            Public Lectures for KAF (1999, 2001).
            Public Lecture for UNF (2000).
            Member of the Space Generation Forum,
                Participated as Danish representative at UNISPACE III (Vienna 19-30 July, 1999),
                (Third UN conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space).
            Participated in Dansk Fysisk Selskabs Årsmøde (DFS),
                (Nyborg, 1997 (poster), 1999 (2xposter), 2000 (talk), 2001 (poster), 2002 (poster), 2005).
            ASF (Astronomisk Studenter Forening) (Chairman (1998-2000), NeST, Web, Excursion).
            Participated in Spontaneous Order of Life (SOL II) Summer School, NBI, DK (1998).
            Participated in Spontaneous Order of Life (SOL I) Summer School, NBI, DK (1996).
            IAPS: (ICPS(96)(talk) + ICPS(97)(talk)) (International Association of Physics Students).
            Participated in Relativistic Astrophysics Conference (in honour of Prof. I.D.Novikov, 60 yr.),
                Copenhagen DK (Jan. 10 - 13, 1996)
            One week stay at CERN and ESRF (1995).

Projects currently available on the net:

GRB field information (Free Access, Usage Restricted)

Finding Chart generator (beta-version) (Free Access, Usage Restricted)

Urania AVO initiative Portal (Free Access, Free Usage)

C-node site (Restricted Access)

Publications (160 - 1526 ADS citations)

Master Thesis (submitted March 31, 2004; accepted April 30, 2004) entitled Rapid Response Analysis of GRB Optical Afterglows
(Supervisor: Jens Hjorth), available as blj_thesis.pdf (214p, 6.4Mb) and blj_thesis.ps.gz (214p, 8.2Mb).

Master Thesis Colloquium (presented on April 16, 2004) presentation entitled Rapid Response Analysis of GRB Optical Afterglows,
available as blj_thesis_coll.pdf (39p, 1.4Mb).

Hovedfagskollokvium (presented on April 14, 2004) presentation entitled The Urania Portal - a Copenhagen Virtual Observatory Initiative,
available as blj_avo_coll.pdf (29p, 2.0Mb).

Pages for certain specific GRB-events: GRB050802.422 : GRB050802.422 : Fading of the afterglow and detection of the host galaxy
GRB050801.769 : GRB050801.769 : Optical photometry and decay index; Unchanged decay slope
XRF050509.95 : XRF 050509C: Optical monitoring
GRB050509B : GRB 050509B : Optical observations
GRB050509.074 : GRB 050509.074: Further I-band imaging
GRB041006 : GRB041006 : Optical observations and Potential host galaxy
GRB030725 : GRB030725 : optical observations
XRF030723 : XRF 030723 : Detection of the likely host galaxy; Detection of a rebrightening in the optical afterglow; optical observations
GRB020124 : GRB 020124 : optical observations
GRB011211 : GRB 011211 : Optical Observations; BVRi-band photometry
GRB001025 : GRB 001025 : Optical Observations;
GRB000926 : GRB 000926 : Optical candidate; Optical observations; Spectroscopic Redshift; Preliminary R-band Lightcurve; Lightcurve Update and Predictions; Increasing optical decay slope; Optical observations
GRB000630 : GRB 000630 : Detection of the Optical Afterglow; Optical observations
GRB000528 : GRB 000528 : Optical observations
GRB000508B : GRB 000508B : Optical observations
GRB000326 : GRB 000326 : Optical Observations
GRB000301C : GRB 000301C : Optical Candidate

GRB000210 : Optical Observations of the Chandra X-ray source for GRB 000210
GRB000131 : VLT Detection of Fading Optical Source in the GRB 000131 Error Box
GRB991216 : GRB 991216 Optical Observations
GRB991208 : GRB 991208 Optical Decay
GRB991106 : GRB 991106 Optical Observations
GRB990704 : GRB 990704 Optical Observations
GRB990527 : GRB 990527 Optical Observations
GRB981226 : GRB 981226 Optical Observations

Midterm Project in the course Stjerners Struktur og Udvikling I, submitted April 21 1998. The title is: An Overview of Recent methods and Observations of Abundances and Masses of Galactic Black Holes. It is available for download here ((in english, .ps.gz 463 Kb)).

In January 1998 I submitted an afløsningsopgave titled ALH 84001: Aspects of the Search of Martian Biology in the course of Nucleosynthesis: Evolution of stars, and the formation of the solar system conducted by Uffe Gråe Jørgensen. This report (available here ((in english, .ps.gz 1.8 Mb) (or without frontpicture, here, .ps.gz 316 Kb)) treats the status of the research performed on the martian meteorite ALH 84001 (found on Antarctica in 1984), up to and including January 1998.

In the Spring term of -97 I worked with Morten Andersen on our Bachelor Project: Gas in Dominating Galaxies, supervised by Leif Hansen
We conducted an analysis of the physical properties of the distant Galaxy cluster Abell 478, concentrating our efforts on the central area of the Dominating cD-galaxy.

The full project is available here: A478rap ((in danish) .ps.gz (311 Kb))
A poster prepared for the 1997 Annual Meeting of Dansk Fysisk Selskab (Danish Physical Society) can be found here ((in english) .ps.gz (152 Kb))

Computer Physics qualification project, fall 1996.

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Brian Lindgren Jensen

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This page was last updated by brian_j@astro.ku.dk on February 17, 2005.

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