[ASA] Enhanced PhD scholarship available at Curtin University

[Steven Tingay]

Dear Colleagues,

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:

“The application of commercial supercomputing to next generation radio
astronomy”

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:

* 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;

* Research support funds of $12,000 per annum (fixed);

* Skill development and conference support fund of $8,000 per annum (fixed);

* Tuition fee scholarship;

* Open to Australian Citizens, Australian Permanent Resident, New Zealand
Citizens, and Permanent Humanitarian Visa holders;

* Application deadline 31 August 2021.

About the scholarship and project:
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 (
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/fZAFC2xMQziplLQkzhnm-do?domain=dug.com, 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.

Applications can be lodged at:
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oV1AC3QNPBipAjvmzhqCYVa?domain=scholarships.curtin.edu.au

Enquires can be sent to me at s.tingay at curtin.edu.au

Regards,
Steven

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Professor Steven Tingay (He/Him/His)
John Curtin Distinguished Professor

Executive Director
Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy
Curtin University
Bentley, Western Australia
Australia

Deputy Executive Director
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

Director
Murchison Widefield Array

Street address:
Brodie Hall building
1 Turner Ave
Technology Park
Bentley 6102
Western Australia

Email:  S.Tingay at curtin.edu.au <s.tingay at curtin.edu.au>

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Phone: +61 (0)8 9266 4908

Mobile: +61 (0)401 103635

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.
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