ATNF graduate student program

It's a pleasure to introduce four new students who have recently started PhD projects with ATNF
co-supervisors:

* Deanna Matthews (La Trobe University) has started a project "High Velocity Clouds around the Galaxy" with Prof Peter Dyson (La Trobe) and Dr Lister Staveley-Smith (ATNF).

* Katherine Newton-McGee (University of Sydney) has started her project "The Magnetic Universe" with A/Prof Anne Green (University of Sydney), Drs Ron Ekers and Naomi McClure-Griffiths (ATNF).

* Ivy Wong (University of Melbourne) has started a project "Neutral Hydrogen in a Galaxy Cluster Environment" with a supervisory panel consisting of Prof Rachel Webster (Melbourne), Dr Lister Staveley-Smith (ATNF), Dr Virginia Kilborn (Swinburne) and Dr Gerhardt Meurer (Johns Hopkins University).

* XiaoPeng You (National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences) has started a project "Pulsar Timing Studies" with Dr J.L. Han (NAOC) and Dr Dick Manchester (ATNF).

We also congratulate Erik Muller on the successful defence of his PhD thesis, "High resolution studies of the HI in the Western Magellanic Bridge"; Catherine Buchanan (previously Drake) on her successful PhD thesis, "Radio-Excess IRAS Galaxies"; and Gianni Bernardi on the successful submission of his PhD thesis, "Diffuse Galactic polarised synchrotron radiation as foreground for CMBP experiments". Erik has been a postdoctoral fellow at Arecibo Observatory since mid-2003; Catherine is now at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA and Gianni is at the University of Bologna.

Lister Staveley-Smith
Graduate Student Coordinator
(Lister.Staveley-Smith@csiro.au)