Research projects
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Displaying 76 - 90 of 160 project(s).
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
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is being designed and built by an international consortium of institutions and will be the largest optical telescope in the world when it is completed around 2020.
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
This project requires significant data analysis efforts and some observational and theoretical efforts.
Theme
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
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
Mapping azimuthal variations in metals across cosmic time
Theme
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
Student intake
Open for PhD students
Observatory
People
- Associate Professor Emily Wisnioski, 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
This honours research developed numerical models of the inner radio structure of Centaurus A using the FLASH relativistic hydrodynamics code, and compared the predictions with observations of the galaxy.
Theme
- Black hole phenomena
You will model stellar spectra with spots to improve the spectrum analysis for some of the active stars observed by the million-star spectroscopic GALAH Survey.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
Student intake
Open for Summer Scholar, Bachelor students
Observatory
People
- Dr Sven Buder, Supervisor
- Maja Jablonska, Supervisor