CIRA student projects present and past

Current PhD & MPhil Projects

Name	Degree	Title	Supervisor(s)	Study period
Timothy Colegate	PhD - Engineering	Transient Cosmic Phenomena and their Influence on the Design of the SKA Radio Telescope	PH, ST	2008 - present
Phil Crosby	PhD - Engineering	???	PH	2008? - present
Owen Giersch	PhD - Physics	???	JK	2009 - present (with LOAs)
John Goldsmith	PhD - Phys/AbSt	Cosmos, Culture and Landscape	ST+	2009 - present
David Herne	PhD - Physics	High-Fidelity Mapping and Calibration of the Ionosphere to Low-Frequency Radio Waves	ML	2008 - present (with LOAs)
Claire Hotan	MPhil - Physics	Testing Potential New Sites for Optical Telescopes in Australia	ST, CR, JPM	May 2008 - Sept 2010 (under examination)
Aziz Jiwani	PhD - Engineering	Active Antenna Arrays	PH, SP	2009 - present
Kevin (Jun Yi) Koay	PhD - Engi/Phys	Detecting Radio Transients at Cosmological Distances and Probing the Ionized Intergalactic Medium	PH, JPM	2009 - present
Ming Lim	MPhil - Physics??	???	??	2011?-
Aquib Moin	PhD - Physics	Observational study of radio transient sources associated with Gamma-ray Bursts and X-ray binaries using ATCA and LBA (e-VLBI/VLBI)	ST, ?	2008 - present
Hayden Rampadarath	PhD - Physics	Applications of Wide-Field VLBI	JM	Oct 2010 - present
Bruce Stansby	PhD - Physics	Developing a Fast Radio Transient Monitoring System	ST, AH	2008 - present
Michael Todd	PhD - Physics	Transient Astronomy using the 1-metre Zadko Telescope	MZ, DC(UWA)	2010 - present

Name	Degree	Title	Supervisor	Study period
Andrew Brown	BSc Hons	???	CR	2009 - present
Arwin Kahlon	BSc(Astronomy) Hons	Simulating the Epoch of Reionisation	JPM	July 2010 - present
Damien MacPherson	BSc(Astronomy) Hons	Developing Educational Activities using a Small Telescope	MZ	July 2010 - present
Timothy Young	BSc(Astronomy) Hons	Single Pulse Studies of the Vela Pulsar	AH	2010

Name	Reason	Title	Supervisor	Study period
Ben Goodsell	ICRAR	Analysis of radio astronomical data on TeV gamma-ray AGN	HB	2010-11
John Fielding(UWA)	ICRAR	Venus Express Data Analysis	JM	2010-11
Paul Graham(UNSW)	ICRAR	Exploring the relationship between radio and gamma-ray emission in active galactic nuclei	ST	2010-11

Name	Degree	Title	Supervisor(s)	Study period
Nino Bukilic	PhD - Physics	Extremely wide bandwidth focal plane array receivers for radioastronomy	ML	2006 - 2009

Name	Degree	Title	Supervisor	Study period
Jeffrey Hodgson	BSc Hons	The annual evolution of microarcsecond structure in quasars	HB	July 2009 - November 2010
Thomas Russell	BSc Hons	A New Phased Array Mode for the Australian LBA	AH	2010
Kranav Sharma	MSc	High Precision Timing of 20 Millisecond Pulsars	AH	2009 - 2010
Luis Victorero Moya	BSc(Astronomy) Hons	Investigating Sagittarius A*	JPM	July 2009 - June 2010
Michael Todd	BSc Hons	Asteroid Tracking and Detection using the Zadko Telescope	MZ, DC(UWA)	2009
Timothy Colegate	BSc Hons	Simulation of the Configuration and Performance of PAPER, a 32-Element Radio Astronomy Dipole Array	ML	2006

Name	Reason	Title	Supervisor	Study period
Mark Aartsen(Adl)	ICRAR	Compact Structures in BL Lac Objects Podcast Part I Part II	HB	2009-10
Naomi Altman(UWA)	ICRAR	The Radio Quiet MRO: Enabling Aperture Arrays for the SKA Podcast Part I Part II	RW	2009-10
Thom Beckerling(UWA)	ICRAR	Radio Meteor Observatory Podcast Part I Part II	MA	2009-10
Michael Bittle	3rd year	Meteorite Detection and Tracking using Low-cost Computer Hardware and Applications	ST	2008
Andrew Brown	3rd year	The Small Radio Telescope	ML	2007
Adam Carbone	3rd year	Determining the Orbital Period of Recent Novae	MZ, JB	2007
Michael Ensly	1st yr summer	Investigating a Radio Emitting Magnetar	AH	2008-09
Michael Ensly	2nd yr summer	Signal Processing with Nereus-V	AH	2009-10
Jeff Hodgson	3rd year	Radio Astronomy with the Small Radio Telescope	ML	2008
Arwin Kahlon	iVEC	Simulating the Epoch of Reionisation Podcast Part I Part II	JPM	2009-10
Kai Karvinen	3rd year	Detecting Solar Flares using Dual Centre-fed Half-wave Dipole Antennas	ST	2008
Luis Victorero Moya	3rd year	Galaxy rotation models ???	AH	2008
Tom Russell	3rd year	Simulation of Radio Transients using a 20 Element Aperture Array	ST	2008
Mick Todd	3rd year	Development of Infrastructure for Education in Optical Astronomy	MZ	2008
Tim Young	3rd year	Commissioning the Small Radio Telescope for Galactic Rotation Curve Measurement	AH	2009