CSIRO Summer Vacation Scholarship Program
From December 2001 to February 2002 the CSIRO Summer Vacation Scholarship Program was held with participating divisions including the Australia Telescope National Facility and Telecommunications and Industrial Physics (at both the Marsfield and Lindfield sites). There were 235 applications for the 22 positions, 10 with the ATNF (two of these at the Paul Wild Observatory, Narrabri) and 12 for CTIP. The students worked on projects with a scientist or an engineer for a period of eight to twelve weeks. This year's program included two Summer Legal Clerkship recipients working under the guidance of Anne McManus. We also welcomed Naomi McClure-Griffiths to the organising team.
Standing L to R Back row: Naomi McClure-Griffiths (ATNF), Jiufu Lim, Andrea Varsavsky, Richard Dixon, Nicolai Grosse, Edward Taylor, Aidan Hotan, Arron Cleary, Bob Sault (ATNF).
Standing L to R Middle row: Vanee Harichandran, Jessica Chapman (ATNF), Vicky Safouris, Kathleen Anonuevo, Laura Frost, Suzanne Kenyon, Thulasi Karunakaran, Paul Thompson, Jemima Harris, Lucia Bromley-Gambaro (ATNF).
Sitting L to R: Lester Chua, Arvind Vasan, Nicholas Burkett, Mark Cheung, Kristen Feher, Phillip King, Sebastian Corlette.
Absent: Huda Alam, Tammy Humphrey
The program emphasis is on providing the students experience in the working environment of a National Research Facility, as well as catering to group activities. These includes a series of introductory lectures on the work of the ATNF and CTIP, and tours of the CSIRO Marsfield and Lindfield laboratories. The program also includes a weekly afternoon session where a staff member from the either the ATNF or CTIP talks on a topic of their choosing.
The highlight of the program is the Observatory Trip where the students work in small teams and are given the opportunity to tour and work on their own projects at either the Parkes Radio Telescope or at the Australia Telescope Compact Array at Narrabri. The observatory trips were attended by Naomi Mclure-Griffiths at Parkes and Bob Sault at the ATCA.
The program concluded with a Summer Vacation Students Symposium, organised by the students. This was held on Thursday 7 February 2002 at the Radiophysics Laboratory Lecture Theatre in Marsfield.
The next round of Summer Vacation Scholarships will be advertised around mid-June 2002.
Lucia M Bromley-Gambaro
(Lucia.Bromley-Gambaro@csiro.au)