
Research projects
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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
- David Brodrick, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, 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
- David Brodrick, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
The Milky Way's magnetic field is critical for shaping the structure and evolution of the galaxy, regulating star formation, and transporting cosmic rays. Understanding the interaction between the magnetic field and atomic HI gas is key to unraveling the galaxy's dynamics and evolution.
Theme
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
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
This has wide potential applications to chemical and dynamical studies of galaxies from two-dimensional integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
Using ANU's SkyMapper Telescope we follow up on gravitational-wave events from LIGO/Virgo to characterise the ejecta from neutron-star collisions.
Theme
- Black hole phenomena
Using ANU's SkyMapper Telescope we follow up on gravitational-wave events from LIGO/Virgo to characterise the ejecta from neutron-star collisions.
Theme
- Black hole phenomena
Theme
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
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
- Gaston Gausachs, 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
- Gaston Gausachs, Supervisor
In this project, the student would study both the spectral and structural properties of the thermal electron density and magnetic fields in the ionised gas phase of the Milky Way.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
In this project, the student would study both the spectral and structural properties of the thermal electron density and magnetic fields in the ionised gas phase of the Milky Way.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos