ATNF graduate student program
It's a pleasure to welcome three students into the ATNF co-supervision program:
Vicky Safouris (RSAA, ANU) will study "Environmental influence on the evolution of radio jets from AGN" with supervisors Geoff Bicknell (RSAA, ANU) and Ravi Subrahmanyan (ATNF).
Ilana Klamer (University of Sydney) will study "CO in high-redshift galaxies" with supervisors Elaine Sadler (University of Sydney), Dick Hunstead (University of Sydney) and Ron Ekers (ATNF).
Jamie McCallum (University of Tasmania) will undertake a study "A study of water megamasers in AGN" with supervisors Simon Ellingsen (University of Tasmania) and Jim Lovell (ATNF).
As mentioned in the last newsletter (issue 49, February 2003), Ilana and Jamie are also the 2003 recipients of CSIRO/ATNF scholarships.
Congratulations, and best wishes for the future, to Scott Gordon who has been awarded a PhD by the University of Queensland on "Radio Studies of Southern Interacting Galaxies". Many Universities issue awards for PhD theses of exceptional quality, and we would appreciate hearing about those where the student has had an association with the ATNF. Prof John Dickey reports that the University of Minnesota has just awarded its Best Dissertation Award in Physical Sciences and Engineering for 2001 2003 to Naomi McClure-Griffiths, who is now a Bolton Fellow at the ATNF.
Finally, Monday, 2 June saw the ATNF Annual Student Symposium for 2003 (see www.atnf.csiro.au/research/conferences/student_symposia/ASS2003 ). We had an excellent set of 10 presentations from students affiliated, or associated in some way, with the ATNF and covering a wide range of topics, including astronomy, visualization and low-frequency dynamic range studies. We thank Rachel Deacon, Daniel Mitchell, Erik Muller and Jess O'Brien for organizing the event this year.
Lister Staveley-Smith
Graduate Student Coordinator
(Lister.Staveley-Smith@csiro.au)