Research projects
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Displaying 31 - 45 of 51 project(s).
This project aims to address the potential of Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) as highly nonlinear optical elements, including their potential use in pyramid wavefront sensing.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
This project aims to address the potential of Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) as highly nonlinear optical elements, including their potential use in pyramid wavefront sensing.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
The successful applicant will join the ANU team and will assist with the development of instrumentation for the optical communication team
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
The successful applicant will join the ANU team and will assist with the development of instrumentation for the optical communication team
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
This project aims to demonstrate the advantages of LGS-AO for deep space optical communications.
Theme
- Instrumentation
This project aims to utilize LLMs (Large Language Models) to enhance the usability of systems engineering documentation, including system requirement documents and flowdowns, interface documents, design documents, and reliability assessments.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Ioana Ciuca, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Mr David Brodrick, Supervisor
This project aims to utilize LLMs (Large Language Models) to enhance the usability of systems engineering documentation, including system requirement documents and flowdowns, interface documents, design documents, and reliability assessments.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Ioana Ciuca, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Mr David Brodrick, Supervisor
This project aims to utilize LLMs (Large Language Models) to enhance the usability of systems engineering documentation, including system requirement documents and flowdowns, interface documents, design documents, and reliability assessments.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Ioana Ciuca, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Mr David Brodrick, Supervisor
With this project we will be using the newly automated ANU 2.3m telescope and the powerful WiFeS optical spectrograph to perform a time-series measurement of luminous active galaxies (AGN) using the technique of Quasar Reverberation Mapping.
Theme
- Black hole phenomena
- Instrumentation
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
A student undertaking this project will investigate the potential customisations of lenslet arrays afforded by optical meta-surfaces, and propose designs to be fabricated in the Research School of Physics at ANU.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
A student undertaking this project will investigate the potential customisations of lenslet arrays afforded by optical meta-surfaces, and propose designs to be fabricated in the Research School of Physics at ANU.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
A student undertaking this project will investigate the potential customisations of lenslet arrays afforded by optical meta-surfaces, and propose designs to be fabricated in the Research School of Physics at ANU.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
The successful applicant will work on one of several software related projects for the DREAMS infrared surveyor
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Jamie Soon, Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
The successful applicant will work on one of several software related projects for the DREAMS infrared surveyor
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Jamie Soon, Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
This project aims to research and potentially develop the design of calibration light sources for use in the MAVIS instrument (currently being designed for the ESO VLT).
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Mr Gaston Gausachs, Supervisor