<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>A PhD scholarship is available at Curtin University. I'd appreciate it if you could distribute the opportunity around your Australian and New Zealand networks . The scholarship is on the topic:<font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">“The application of commercial supercomputing to next generation radio astronomy”</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">The scholarship is funded via the Curtin University - CSIRO Industry PhD program, and the project will be co-supervised between Curtin University and CSIRO. The conditions are:</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">* PhD scholarship of $28,597 per annum (indexed), plus a top-up of $13,000 per annum (fixed), for a period of four years. In total, a starting value of $41,597 in the first year;</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">* Research support funds of $12,000 per annum (fixed);<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">* Skill development and conference support fund of $8,000 per annum (fixed);</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">* Tuition fee scholarship;</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">* Open to </span></font>Australian Citizens, Australian Permanent Resident, New Zealand Citizens, and Permanent Humanitarian Visa holders;</div><div><br></div><div>* Application deadline 31 August 2021.<br></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">About the scholarship and project:</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is the largest radio telescope
ever conceived and will generate the highest volume scientific data
flows in history; it will challenge traditional supercomputing capacity
over the next decade. The student will utilise Australia’s two SKA precursor
facilities, ASKAP (CSIRO) and the MWA (Curtin University), in
conjunction with large-scale commercial supercomputing provided by DUG
Technology (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/EC96C6XQ4LfrORJoYuxrWOp?domain=dug.com">https://dug.com/</a>), at the forefront of high-performance computing as a service
(HPCaaS) with impressive green compute credentials. The student will explore the application of DUG’s compute and expertise to a
range of challenging radio astronomy problems, for example the hunt to detect the Epoch of Reionisation.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">Applications can be lodged at: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oV1AC3QNPBipAjvmzhqCYVa?domain=scholarships.curtin.edu.au">https://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?id=5608</a></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">Enquires can be sent to me at <a href="mailto:s.tingay@curtin.edu.au">s.tingay@curtin.edu.au</a><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">Regards,</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">Steven<br></span></font></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">***************************************************************************************</div><div>It is often convenient for me to send emails outside business hours. <br></div><div>But I have no expectation of responses outside business hours.<br></div><div dir="ltr">***************************************************************************************</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Professor Steven Tingay (He/Him/His)<br></div><div>John Curtin Distinguished Professor<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Executive Director<br>Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy<br>Curtin University<br>Bentley, Western Australia<br>Australia<br><br></div><div>Deputy Executive Director<br></div><div>International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research</div><div><br></div><div>Director</div><div>Murchison Widefield Array<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Street address:<br>Brodie Hall building<br>1 Turner Ave<br>Technology Park<br>Bentley 6102<br>Western Australia<br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:s.tingay@curtin.edu.au" target="_blank">S.Tingay@curtin.edu.au</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>WWW: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ue06C4QOPEiB0ZxJKtB7zcc?domain=astronomy.curtin.edu.au" target="_blank">http://astronomy.curtin.edu.au</a><br></div><div> <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/SzkdC5QPXJiZjy10LH2G8Zp?domain=icrar.org" target="_blank">http://www.icrar.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Phone: +61 (0)8 9266 4908<br><br>Mobile: +61 (0)401 103635<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(47,84,150)">I acknowledge and pay
respect to the past, present and future traditional custodians and
elders of the Nation’s First Peoples and the continuation of their
cultural, spiritual and educational practices. I pay particular
respect to the traditional owners of the land on which our Perth Campus
is located, the Wadjuk people of the Noongar nation, and on our
Kalgoorlie Campus, the Wongutha people of the North-Eastern Goldfields. And the Wajarri Yamaji people of the Murchison, the site where we are building the MWA and the SKA.<br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>