ATNF graduate student program

It is a pleasure to welcome Rachel Deacon, Gianni Bernardi, Aidan Hotan and Haydon Knight into the ATNF PhD co-supervision program. Rachel's project is "Planetary Nebulae - Origin and Morphology". Her supervisors are Anne Green (University of Sydney) and Jessica Chapman (ATNF). Gianni's project is "The Diffuse Galactic Synchrotron Polarized Radiation as a Foreground to CMB Polarization Experiments". His supervisors are Prof Corrado Bartolini, Dr Stefano Cortiglioni, Dr Ettore Carretti (University of Bologna and CNR IASF-Bologna) and Bob Sault (ATNF). Aidan and Haydon were mentioned in ATNF News Issue 46 after having been awarded a 2002 CSIRO top-up scholarship. Their respective thesis projects are: "Pulsar observations and timing" and "Baseband Searching for Millisecond Pulsars" with supervisors Matthew Bailes (Swinburne University), Colin Jacka (CTIP) and Dick Manchester (ATNF).

It's also a pleasure to be able to host Jennifer Donley, a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to work on the northern HIPASS/ZOA project. Jennifer graduated from Penn State University and will be based at Marsfield until she commences her PhD at the University of Arizona in late 2003.

Quite a number of theses have been submitted this year. This issue's congratulations go to Vivian Wheaton and Antoine Bouchard for the official acceptance of their Masters theses. Viv's University of Sydney thesis is entitled "Investigation of Radio Emission from Supernova Remnant 1987A". Antoine's Universite de Montreal thesis is entitled (in English) "Distribution and kinematics of the neutral hydrogen clouds around the dwarf galaxies of the Local Group".

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