ATNF graduate student program
It is a pleasure to welcome Jess O'Brien and Bradley Warren from the RSAA, Mt Stromlo into the ATNF co-supervision program. Jess' project is "Probing the shape of dark halos of thin edge-on disk galaxies". Her RSAA supervisor is Ken Freeman and her ATNF advisor is Lister Staveley-Smith. Bradley's project is "The Nature of Nearby High HI Mass-to-Light Ratio Field Galaxies". His supervisors are Helmut Jerjen (RSAA) and Baerbel Koribalski (ATNF).
Well done to two students at Swinburne University, Aidan Hotan and Haydon Knight, who have just been awarded a prestigious CSIRO scholarship. These are brand new scholarships. For the year 2002, these scholarships were available for inter-divisional projects, though we expect the scheme will soon be expanded to cover pure astronomy projects. For further details, see http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/graduate/csiro_scholars.html .
It is also a pleasure to congratulate two recently graduated students. Robert Minchin from the University of Wales Cardiff obtained his PhD for a thesis entitled "Properties of Galaxies found in a deep blind neutral hydrogen survey". Maria Hunt obtained her PhD from the University of Western Sydney for a thesis entitled "Molecules in southern molecular clouds: A millimetre-wave study of dense cores".
The 2002 Annual Student Symposium will be held in Marsfield on 1 May. Attendees are asked to register by 17 April. For details, check with the SOC - Erik Muller, Daniel Mitchell and Jess O'Brien.
At the latest ATUC meeting, new publication arrangements were announced for co-supervised students. As has always been the case, ATNF-affiliated students must include their university as their primary affiliation on any paper. However, students may also list the ATNF as a secondary affiliation (note that this may have financial implications for the University). If the ATNF affiliation is given, then the ATNF will contribute 50% of the pro-rata page charges for the student, if based in Australia. It is recommended that ATNF-affiliated students who do NOT list the ATNF as an affiliation in the author list include a footnote on the front page to state that:
"name is a graduate student jointly enrolled at the university name and the Australia Telescope National Facility."
Co-supervised students who are first authors on publications must have their paper internally refereed by an ATNF staff member (who is not an author on the paper), following standard ATNF publication policy. See http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/publications/policy.html As always, all authors should include the appropriate acknowledgement for the use of ATNF facilities. See http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/publications/ .
Please consult the Graduate Student pages, or contact me, if further clarification is needed. See http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/graduate/ .
Lister Staveley-Smith
Graduate Student Coordinator
(Lister.Staveley-Smith)