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3D printed optical translation stage Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course
3D printed water-cooled deformable mirror for high power lasers. Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
A Deep-Space and Lunar Optical Communication System: Optical ground station to support Artemis II Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
A high-altitude survey for nearby supernova Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
A resolved star formation study of galaxies using TYPHOON Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours and Summer scholar course
Adaptive Optics for Laser Communication: iLaunch Trailblazer Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Adaptive vibration cancellation in adaptive optics Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
AITC Adaptive Optics Test Bench Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
Are magnetic fields the scaffolds of galaxies? Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD
Asteroids studies with the Kepler Space Telescope for Future Asteroid Mining Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Bulk motions in the nearby Universe and the approach to homogeneity Structure and evolution of the Cosmos PhD
Closing the gap: Tracers of the interstellar medium in GALAH spectra Galactic archaeology Bachelor and Summer scholar course
Computational astrophysics studies in turbulence, magnetic fields, and star/galaxy formation and evolution Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD
Connecting the Galactic and Extragalactic with MUSE: a comparison of integrated and resolved stellar populations Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours, Masters and PhD
Constraining cosmic ray dynamics with gamma-ray data Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos PhD
Cosmic Magnetism and the Universe’s Biggest ‘Dye Tracer’ Experiments: Deciphering The Impact and Lifecycles of Outflows from Supermassive Black Holes. Black hole phenomena, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Dancing with the Stars: Rotation periods and rotational velocities for the open clusters Messier 67 and Ruprecht 147 Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor and Summer scholar course
Design and simulation of an Ultraviolet spatial heterodyne spectrometer instrument Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
Do star clusters have a mid-life crisis? The age gap between open and globular clusters in the Milky Way Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor and Summer scholar course
Dockerising optical sensors and correctors Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course
Double stars observations at Mount Stromlo Observatory for satellite laser communications Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Exploring Galactic magnetism through radio polarization Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
Exploring the Ultraviolet Extinction Landscape: A Mission Concept for Probing Interstellar Medium Composition in the Milky Way and Local Group Galaxies Instrumentation, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
Extended Main-sequence Turn-off in Galactic Open Clusters Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor, Honours and Masters
Formation History of the Milky Way from Stellar Observables Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos PhD
Gas motions and excitation in edge-on barred galaxies Galactic archaeology PhD
Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system for the 8-metre Subaru Telescope in Hawaii Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
HI Absorption-Emission Fitting: A New Approach Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours and Masters
Infrared sensor systems for Astronomy and Earth Observation from space Instrumentation Honours, Masters and PhD
Investigating Spatial Light Modulators and Pyramid Wavefront Sensing Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
Just another brick in the halo Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor, Honours and Masters
Laser Communications Site Testing and Analysis Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for deep space optical communications: The Moon and beyond. Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
LLMs for systems engineering Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course
Magellanic foreground: The handshake between HI gas and Galactic magnetic field Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours and Masters
Mapping azimuthal variations in metals across cosmic time Structure and evolution of the Cosmos PhD
Measuring the masses of black holes in distant galaxies Black hole phenomena, Instrumentation, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Meta-surface lenslet arrays for adaptive optics Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Multiple Stellar Populations from a Single Galaxy Spectrum Galactic archaeology Honours
Opening the dynamic infrared sky with DREAMS Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Precision astrometric reference source for optical calibration Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course
Pulsars as a probe of the ionised gas in the Milky Way Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
Reinforcement learning for phasing giant telescopes Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
Satellite galaxies as probe of structure formation in our cosmic backyard Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours, Masters and PhD
Shaping the Magellanic Stream with the Magellanic Corona: A Faraday Rotation search Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD
Simulated observations of galactic wind metal loading Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours and Masters
Simulated Observations of the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course
Simulating integral field spectrograph images for MAVIS Instrumentation Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course
Simulating the formation of the first galaxies Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD
Synergy between future 21-cm experiments and physical cosmology Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours and PhD
Taking the Temperature of a galaxy Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD
Taking the temperature of red giant stars in Globular clusters Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy PhD
The chemistry of M dwarfs from colours Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Masters and PhD
The dinosaurs of the Milky Way: high precision chemical abundance measurements of ancient star clusters Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor and Summer scholar course
The Galactic ASKAP Survey of Atomic Gas structure and temperature of the Magellanic System Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours and Masters
The Oldest Stars in the Universe Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy PhD
The origin of filamentary structures in the interstellar medium of spiral galaxies Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
The Origin of the High Galactic Latitudes Asymmetry in the Milky Way Magnetic Field Structure Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course
The origin of the mass step in supernovae Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours and Summer scholar course
The Origins of Elements with Next-Generation Stellar Spectroscopy Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos PhD
The Pyxis Space Interferometer Prototype Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course
The rise of supermassive black holes Black hole phenomena, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours, Masters and PhD
The ultraviolet excess of hot stars: there or not? Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor, Honours and Masters
Toward improved measurements of galactic wind mass fluxes Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos PhD
Understanding the gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Centre’s giant outflow Galactic archaeology Honours, Masters and PhD
Uniting optical and infrared spectroscopy with GALAH and APOGEE Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
Unveiling the Mysteries of the Magellanic Stream: Galactic ASKAP HI Absorption Study Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours and Masters
Weighing gravity with galaxy motions Structure and evolution of the Cosmos PhD
What new information can we extract from stellar spectra? Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course
Where does Galactic antimatter come from? Black hole phenomena, Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours, Masters and PhD
Why does the inner Galaxy glow in gamma-rays and radio emission?: dark matter, ancient pulsars, neither or both? Black hole phenomena, Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Honours, Masters and PhD