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<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-kerning: none">An ARC-funded PhD scholarship in astronomy is open at the University of Tasmania, for the project “The Occurrence of Cold Planets in the Galaxy”, supervised by Andrew Cole (UTAS) and Jean-Philippe
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<div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(16, 15, 16)"><span style="margin: 0px; font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">The project aims to explore a unique niche in exoplanet detection: searches for cold planets down to Earth mass, including ice
giants, rogue free-floating planets, and those with “dark” hosts (e.g., degenerate objects). Discovering these planets and learning whether their frequency varies with location in the Galaxy can only be done with gravitational microlensing experiments and
follow-up high angular resolution observations. The project involves modelling and observational components, with local, international, and space telescopes.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-kerning: none">For further information on this and other projects, see<span> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/eIsTCYW8NocW6YGYH0fW0N?domain=utas.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-phd-projects/college-of-sciences-and-engineering</a><span> </span>.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-kerning: none">The University of Tasmania has an active and collegial astrophysics research group within a small physics department. Our campus in the Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay is nestled between the
Derwent River and Mt. Wellington, offering good access to our optical and radio telescopes and a wide range of recreational activities. We have strong links with other disciplines including Mathematics and Spatial Sciences. We offer Doctoral and Masters degrees
in subjects including exoplanets, pulsars, stellar populations, star formation, active galactic nuclei, cosmology, geodesy, and geophysics. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-kerning: none">Scholarships are competitively awarded. To send an expression of interest, see<span> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oJFBCZY1NqiqovOvtjF5WG?domain=utas.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/apply-now</a><span> </span>or
send an email to<span> </span><a href="mailto:andrew.cole@utas.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">andrew.cole@utas.edu.au</a><span> </span>for further information. The deadline for email expressions
of interest is 16 October 2020. The closing deadline for full applications is 30 October 2020.</span></div>
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