Approved Research Projects for Postgraduate for 2020
Approved Engineering Research Projects for 2020
Approved Engineering Masters Projects for 2020
- EMP 1 – Direction of Arrival Estimation Techniques for Wideband Radio Frequency Sources
- EMP 2 – Two Element Interferometer Demonstrator
- EMP 3 – Low -Loss, broadband, cooled Dicke switches
- EMP 4 – An tuneable X-band notch filter for interferer suppression in radio astronomy
- EMP 5 – Efficient modelling of large-scale radio astronomy antenna arrays with interconnected elements
- EMP 6 – Highly Integrated Quad-Ridge Horn Feed for Reflector Antennas
- EMP 7 – Designing a reduction pipeline for TART that can be used as an educational tool in South Africa
- EMP 8 – Investigate the use of ground plane slots in the design of Wideband Planar Marchand Buluns
- EMP 9 – Performance comparison trade-off investigation between Vivaldi and Sinuous Antenna
- EMP 10 – Implementation and Analysis of Wideband Direction-of-Arrival MUSIC Algorithms using a Red-Pitaya
- EMP 11 – Evaluation of Decorrelation Techniques for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Coherent Radio-Frequency Sources
- EMP 12 – Applied Filtering and Shielding for EMC
- EMP 13 – RFI Warning System Development
- EMP 14 – Reverberation Chamber Optimisation for EMC Pre-compliance Testing
- EMP 15 – WOLA Filters and Auto-tuning for Radio Astronomy
- EMP 16 – Low-cost Gaussian Process-based RFI Source Predictor
- EMP 17 – Development of a drone based signal strength verification system
- EMP 18 – VLBI mobile radio RFI source modelling by means of ray tracing
Approved Engineering Doctoral Projects for 2020
- EDP 1 – Multi-Ridge Horns as Wideband Reflector Antenna Feeds for SKA
- EDP 2 – A broadband cooled radio astronomy receiver
- EDP 3 – New methods for efficient modelling of large-scale antenna arrays with interconnected elements
- EDP 4 – C-BASS South Development and Commisioning
- EDP 5 – Exploring cosmic dawn from the sub-Antarctic
- EDP 6 – Coherent Frequency Reference and Data Signals over Optical Fibre Networks for the SKA
- EDP 7 – Intelligent monitoring and failure analysis for large aperture array antennas
- EDP 8 – Modelling Aggregate Effect of Multiple Radiators inside Electrically Large Shielded Enclosures
- EDP 9 – HIRAX Instrument Characterisation and Array Commissioning
Approved Science Research Projects for 2020
Approved Science Masters Projects for 2020
- SMP 1 – Gradient Descent based Optimization for Radio Interferometer Field of View Shaping
- SMP 2 – A MeerKAT morphological and spectral index study of M87
- SMP 3 – A MeerKAT HI and radio continuum study of the archetype binary AGN host galaxy NGC 6240
- SMP 4 – Quasar jet structures at _300 micro-arcsecond angular resolution using EHT imaging algorithms
- SMP 5 – Studying giant pulses in eclipsing binaries of Southerly millisecond pulsars using MeerKAT
- SMP 6 – Time variability of radio sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud
- SMP 7 – Statistical Pilot Study for MERGHERS
- SMP 8 – HI Imaging of the Norma Cluster with MeerKAT
- SMP 9 – Observations of high redshift galaxy clusters with MeerKAT
- SMP 10 – Calibration of Epoch of Reionization observations with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
- SMP 11 – Studying the brightest radio sources in the southern sky
- SMP 12 – A MIGHTEE investigation into_radio-quiet_AGN
Approved Science Doctoral Projects for 2020
- SDP 1 – VLBI Exploration of the Spatio-kinematics of Maser
- SDP 2 – Binary supermassive black holes in post-merger galaxies
- SDP 3 – Goal-orientated stacking to enhance MeerKAT statistical analyses and VLBI multi-source self-calibration
- SDP 4 – A MeerKAT survey of galaxy clusters,lens modelling and cosmological HI contraints
- SDP 5 – Classifying and interpreting marginally resolved or unresolved detections in HI surveys
- SDP 6 – Quantifying AGN feedback processes in massive galaxy clusters with MeerKAT
- SDP 7 – Characterisation of instrumental systematics on foreground leakage in HIRAX data
- SDP 8 – Calibration of 21cm intensity mapping data from HIRAX
- SDP 9 – Unveiling the formation of the large scale structure in the nearby Universe. The spectacular case of the Shapley Concentration
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Last Updated on December 10, 2019
