CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Student Program: previous students
2016
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Student | University | Date |
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Vasaant Krishnan | University of Tasmania | Submitted 5th Jan 2016 | Astrometric observation of methanol masers |
2015
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Student | University | Date |
Project title |
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Kosuke Fujii | The University of Tokyo | 2015 | The effects of large-scale stellar feed-backs on the molecular cloud formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
Andreas Herzog | Ruhr University Bochum | 2015 | The broad-band spectra of infrared-faint radio sources |
Anita Titmarsh | University of Tasmania | Submitted Dec 2015 | Investigating the earliest stages of high-mass star formation |
Courtney Jones | University of Tasmania | 2015 | The Southern Milky Way |
Emily Petroff | Swinburne University of Technology | 2015 | Study of the interstellar medium through radio phenomena of short duration |
Christopher Jordan | University of Tasmania | Sep 2015 | CS(1-0) observations with MALT-45: a 7mm survey of the southern galaxy |
Shi Dai | Peking University | 2015 | High precision pulsar timing |
Xingjiang Zhu | University of Western Australia | 2015 | Searches for continuous gravitational waves in the Parkes pulsar timing array data sets |
Paul Brook | University of Oxford | 2015 | Variability in pulsars |
Raheel Hashmi | Macquarie University | Mar 2015 | á |
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2014
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Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Tiffany Day | Macquarie University | Dec 2014 | The flows of neutral hydrogen in the grand design spiral galaxy M83 |
Peter-Christian Zinn | Ruhr-Universitat Bochum | Dec 2014 | New avenues in galaxy evolution studies: large-scale magnetic fields and properties of high-redshift radio emitters |
Hayden Rampadarath | Curtin University | Aug 2014 | Application of wide-field VLBI |
Kathrin Wolfinger | Swinburne University of Technology | Aug 2014 | The effect of environment on the evolution of nearby gas-rich spiral galaxies |
Vanessa Moss | University of Sydney | July 2014 | Intermediate mass black holes in dwarf galaxies |
Caterina Ubach | Swinburne University of Technology | Feb 2014 | A multi-wavelength study of grain growth in protoplanetary discs |
Sarah Hegarty | University of Queensland | 2014 | Making the first multibeam images with an ASKAP PAF |
Rai Yuen | University of Sydney | 2014 | Pulsar magnetosphere revisited: emission geometry and the synthesis of the vacuum-dipole and the rotating-magnetorsphere models |
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2013
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Claire-Elise Green | University of New South Wales | á | The relationship between starbursts and black holes in galaxies |
Guillaume Drouart | European Southern Observatory | á | AGN and star formation history in high redshift powerful radio galaxies |
Christopher Hales | University of Sydney | Jan 2013 | Deep imaging of the radio sky in total intensity and linear polarisation |
Dan Thornton | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics | Sept. 2013 | Pulsar and transient searching with GPUs |
Xinping Deng | National Space Science Center, Beijing, CAS | á | Pulsar timing and its application in spacecraft navigation |
Jay Blanchard | University of Tasmania | á | Linking the radio and gamma-ray properties of blazars |
Justin Bray | University of Adelaide | Aug 2013 | Ultrahigh-energy neutrinos and their detection with the lunar Cherenkov technique |
Jingbo Wang | Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS | July 2013 | Searching for the gravitational wave memory effect in pulsar data sets |
Catarina Ubach | Swinburne University of technology | á | CABB millimeter observations of proto-planetary disks |
Stefan Oslowski | Swinburne university of technology | á | The highest precision pulsar timing |
Meng Yu | Peking University | Jan 2013 | Pulsar X-ray thermal emission in a solid quark star model and glitches in southern radio pulsars |
2012
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Chris Hales | University of Sydney | Dec 2012 | Deep imaging of the radio sky in total intensity and linear polarisation |
Yanett Contreras | University of Chile | May 2012 | The nature of filamentary structures of dense molecular gas in the Galactic Plane |
Lina Levin Preston | Swinburne | Jun 2012 | A search for radio pulsars: from millisecond pulsars to magnetars |
Rajan Chhetri | University of New South Wales | June 2012 | Quasars, radio galaxies and gravitational lenses in the high radio frequency universe |
Luke Hindson | University of Hertfordshire | June 2012 | The G305 star forming complex: a panoramic view of the environment and star formation |
Minnie Mao | University of Tasmania | May 2012 | Cosmic evolution of radio sources in ATLAS |
Kate Chow (nee Randall) | University of Sydney | Mar 2012 | The evolution of young radio sources and the milliJansky radio source population |
Andres Guzman | University of Chile | Jan 2012 | Ionized jets and molecular outflows in high-mass young stellar objects |
2011
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Elizabeth Mahony | University of Sydney | Nov 2011 | Unveiling the high-frequency radio source population |
Tye Young | ANU | Oct 2011 | Mapping interstellar molecular emission lines with the Tidbinbilla 70m radio telescope (honours thesis) |
Sui-Ann Mao | Harvard University | Oct 2011 | Magnetic fields in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds |
Keith Bannister | University of Sydney | Sep 2011 | Radio transients: surveys and techniques |
Laura Bonavera | SISSA | Sep 2011 | Spectra of extragalactic radio sources after Planck |
Doug Hayman | University of Macquarie | Aug 2011 | Beamforming and evaluation of focal plane arrays for radio astronomy |
Aquib Moin | University of Curtin | 2011 | e-VLBI science with LBA. Exploring science applications for the long baseline component of ASKAP |
Daniel Yardley | University of Sydney | May 2011 | Studying gravitational waves with pulsars: results from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array |
Annie Hughes | University of Swinburne | May 2011 | Molecular gas in the large magellanic cloud |
2010
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Joanne Dawson | University of Nagoya | Dec 2010 | Supershells as molecular cloud factories in the evolving ISM: observations of HI and 12CO in the Galactic supershells GSH 287+04-17 and GSH 277+00+36 |
Sarah Burke-Spolaor | Swinburne | Oct 2010 | Supermassive black hole binaries and transient radio events: studies in pulsar astronomy |
Deanna Matthews | La Trobe University | Oct 2010 | The Magellanic Stream South of 0 degr declination - a high-resolution ATCA and Parkes HI investigation |
Natasa Vranesevic | University of Sydney | Sep 2010 | Galactic distribution and evolution of pulsars |
Shari Breen | University of Tasmania | Sep 2010 | Masers as evolutionary tracers of high-mass star formation |
Emma Kirkby | ANU | Aug 2010 | Turning the time arrow: an evolutinary history of the local universe |
Urvashi Rau | UNM | May 2010 | Parameterized deconvolution for wide-band radio synthesis imaging |
Paul Hancock | University of Sydney | Jul 2010 | The Australia Telescope 20 GHz survey and the search for young radio galaxies |
Alyson Ford | Swinburne | Jul 2010 | The HI Cloud population in the lower halo of the Milky Way |
Rebecca McFadden | University of Melbourne | Mar 2010 | UHE neutrino detection using the Lunar Cerenkov technique |
Attila Popping | University of Groningen | Jan 2010 | Diffuse neutral hydrogen in the local universe |
2009
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Jamie McCallum | University of Tasmania | Nov 2009 | Scintillation in Circinus |
Katherine Newton-McGee | University of Sydney | Oct 2009 | Radio polarimetry as a probe of interstellar magnetism |
Leith Godfrey | ANU | Dec 2009 | Dynamics of large-scale extragalactic jets: a multi-wavelength study of X-ray bright jets |
Aaron Chippendale | University of Sydney | Sep 2009 | Detecting cosmological reionization on large scales through the 21-cm HI line |
Joris Verbiest | University of Swinburne | Swinburne | Long-term timing of millisecond pulsars and gravitational wave detection |
Nadia Lo | UNSW | Jun 2009 | A multi-molecular line study of an entire giant molecular cloud |
Emil Lenc | Swinburne | Feb 2009 | Studies of radio galaxies and starburst galaxies using wide-field, high spatial resolution radio imagnig |
Adam Deller | Swinburne | Jan 2009 | Precision VLBI astrometry: instrumentation, algorithms and pulsar parallax determinations |
2008
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Marcella Massardi | SISSA | Oct 2008 | The extragalactic sources at mm wavelengths and their role as CMB foregrounds |
Martin Leung | University of Sydney | July 2008 | A wideband feed for a cylindrical radio telescope |
Janine van Eymeren | Bochum University | June 2008 | Gas kinematics in the haloes of nearby irregular dwarf galaxies |
Vicky Safouris | ANU | June 2008 | Environmental influence on the evolution of jets from Active Galactic Nuclei |
2007
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Xiaopeng You | Chinese Academy of Sciences | June 2007 | The propagation of pulse signals in interstellar medium and their effect on the detection of gravitational waves |
Ivy Wong | University of Melbourne | Sep 2007 | Star formation and galaxy evolution of the local universe based on HIPASS |
Steven Longmore | University of New South Wales | 2007 | The cradle of galactic superpowers - studying the natal environment of massive stars |
Jess O'Brien | ANU | Apr 2007 | Probing the shape of dark halos of thin edge-on disk galaxies |
Haydon Knight | University of Swinburne | Jan 2007 | Pulsar applications of baseband recording |
2006
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Rachel Deacon | University of Sydney | Oct 2006 | Magnetic fields and companion stars: behind the shaping of planetary nebulae |
Sebastian Gurovich | ANU | Aug 2006 | An observational study of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation |
Antoine Bouchard | ANU | June 2006 | The interstellar medium and evolution of dwarf galaxies in nearby galaxy groups |
Ilana Feain | University of Sydney | June 2006 | Active galaxies at high redshift: gas, jets and star formation |
Aidan Hotan | Swinburne | July 2006 | High-precision observations of relativistic binary and millisecond pulsars |
2005
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Jamie Stevens | University of Melbourne | Dec 2005 | Neutral hydrogen in galaxy groups |
Meryl Waugh | University of Melbourne | Oct 2005 | Neutral hydrogen in Fornax and Eridanus - blind basketweaving for beginners |
Bradley Warren | ANU | Mar 2005 | The nature of high HI mass-to-light radio field galaxies |
2004
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Erik Muller | University of Wollongong | Sep 2004 | High resolution studies of the HI in the Western magellanic bridge |
Daniel Mitchell | University of Sydney | July 2004 | Interference mitigation in radio astronomy |
Catherine Buchanan | ANU | June 2004 | Radio-excess IRAS galaxies |
Gianni Bernardi | University of Bologna | Apr 2004 | Diffuse galactic polarised synchrotron radiation as foreground for CMB experiments |
Roberto Ricci | University of Trieste | Apr 2004 | High frequency properties of extragalactic sources |
Minh Huynh | ANU | 2004 | Constraining the star formation history of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South region with sensitive radio data |
Emma Ryan-Weber | University of Melbourne | Jan 2004 | Neutral hydrogen in galaxies and the intergalactic medium |
2003
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Hayley Bignall | University of Adelaide | Feb 2003 | Radio variability and interstellar scintillation of blazars |
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt | University of Adelaide | July 2003 | Detection of magnetic fields and diffuse radio emission in Abell 3667 and other rich Southern clusters of Galaxies |
Martin Anderson | University of Western Sydney | Feb 2003 | A radio survey of selected fields from the ROSAT all sky survey |
Boris Babic | University of Queensland | 2003 | Mass distribution in rich clusters of galaxies |
Scott Gordon | University of Queensland | Jan 2003 | Radio studies of Southern interacting galaxies |
Paul Roberts | University of Sydney | Jan 2003 | Components for wide bandwidth signal processing in radio astronomy |
2002
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Jasmina Lazendic | University of Sydney | Mar 2002 | Molecular diagnostic of supernova remnant shocks |
Christian Bruens | University of Bonn | Dec 2002 | The gaseous arms of the Magellanic system and other high-velocity clouds |
David Legge | University of Tasmania | Mar 2002 | Accurate astrometry of Southern Pulsars |
Maria Hunt | University of Western Sydney | Feb 2002 | Molecular spectral line observations of Southern Molecular Clouds |
Wheaton Vivienne | University of Sydney | 2992 | Hydrodynamical models and an investigation into radio emission from SNR 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
2001
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Virginia Kilborn | University of Melbourne | May 2001 | The large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen in the local universe |
Sebastian Juraszek | University of Sydney | 2001 | A study of galaxies behind the milky way |
Thu Hoang Ngoc | UNSW | 2001 | Where is the Eye of the Tornado Nebula? |
Martin Ott | University of Bonn | 2001 | Atomic and molecular gas in the starburst galaxy NGC 4945 |
Ruisheng Peng | UNSW | 2001 | Southern molecular clouds at CH3OH 20r3-1E transition |
Robert Minchin | Cardiff | Nov 2001 | Properties of galaxies in a deep blind neutral hydrogen survey |
Nina Wang | Urumqi Astronomical Observatory | 2001 | Pulsar timing and scintillation studies |
2000
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Kate Brooks | UNSW | Oct 2000 | An investigation of the Carina Nebula |
Mary Putman | ANU | 2000 | Mapping the Galaxy's neutral hydrogen halo |
David Rayner | University of Tasmania | 2000 | Circular polarisation of active galaxies |
Jagmit Sandhu | USA | á | High precision timing of millisecond pulsars |
Niven Tasker | University of Macquarie | Feb 2000 | Identifications from the PMN Southern Survey |
Thomas Tauris | Aarhus University | á | Formation and evolution of binary millisecond pulsars |
1999
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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David Abbott | University of Sydney | Oct 1999 | Correcting atmospheric distortion in short-wavelength radio observations from tropospheric water-vapour soundings |
Richard Gooch | University of Sydney | July 1999 | Advanced visualisation techniques to handle astronomical data cubes and images |
Duncan Roy | University of Queensland | á | Large-scale radio structure in the Southern galaxy at 2.4GHz |
Bryan Gaensler | University of Sydney | Feb 1999 | Barrels, jets and smoke-rings: understanding the bizarre shapes of radio supernova remnants |
1998
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Gareth Banks | University of Wales | Dec 1998 | 21cm blind searches for galaxies |
Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer | University of Sydney | Dec 1998 | The study of intraday variability of extragalactic compact radio sources |
Alan McPhall | University of Macquarie | Sep 1999 | Non-linear iterative image reconstruction techniques for images with well known point-spread function |
Snezana Stanimirovic | University of Western Sydney | July 1998 | Complex nature of the ISM in the SMC |
Marc Elmouttie | University of Queensland | June 1998 | A multi-frequency investigation of the nuclear activity in the Circinus galaxy |
Mark Bransford | University of Melbourne | May 1998 | Star formation in collisional ring galaxies and the circumnuclear regions of active galactic nuclei |
Jon Bell | ANU | á | Binary and millisecond radio pulsars |
Sungeun Kim | ANU | Apr 1998 | An HI aperture synthesis mosaic and Halpha survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud |
David Barnes | University of Melbourne | Apr 1998 | Neutral hydrogen in the nearby universe |
Chris Phillips | University of Tasmania | Jan 1998 | Class II Methanol masers and their environment at high resolution |
Edward King | University of Tasmania | á | Compact structure in Southern Peaked Spectrum Radio Sources |
Derek McKay | UNSW | á | Pointing-techniques for radio telescopes |
Sally Houghton | UNSW | Jan 1998 | A study of some southern spirals: Goldilocks and the Three Bars |
Isabella Prandoni | Bologna | á | ATESP survey |
1997
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Jim Lovell | University of Tasmania | 1997 | Southern radio gravitational lens survey and observations |
Wilfred Walsh | UNSW | 1997 | Studies of dwarf galaxies and missing dark matter |
Brett Wells | ANU | 1997 | FIR-Radio continuum correlation in star-forming galaxies |
Ben Stappers | ANU | Sep 1997 | Observations of eclipsing and binary pulsars |
1996
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Haida Liang | ANU | 1996 | Distribution of matter in clusters of galaxies |
Miroslav Filipovic | University of Western Sydney | 1996 | A multi-frequency investigation of discrete sources in the Magellanic Clouds |
Simon Ellingsen | University of Tasmania | 1996 | Class II Methanol masers in star formation regions |
1995
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Mattias Ehle | University of Bonn | Mar 1995 | Characteristics of the diffuse interstellar medium of the nearby galaxies M51, M83, and NGC 1566 - based on X-ray and radiocontinuum observations |
1994
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Alan Roy | University of Sydney | Nov 1994 | Active galaxy unification: radio and far-infrared studies |
Clive Robinson | University of Manchester | Sep 1994 | Pulsars and globular clusters |
Duncan Lorimer | University of Manchester | 1994 | The galactic population of millisecond and normal pulsars |
Andrew Gray | University of Sydney | 1994 | Radio observations of sources near the galactic centre |
1993
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Vicki Kaspi | Princeton University | 1993 | Applications of pulsar timing |
1990
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Simon Johnston | University of Manchester | Nov 1990 | A high frequency survey of the southern galactic plane for pulsars |
1989
Student | University | Date | Project title |
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Matthew Bailes | ANU | 1989 | á |
Norbert Junkes | University of Bonn | Aug 1989 | CO-Shells, HI-Holes and Protostars. Evolution of supernova remnants in the interstellar medium |
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