Buckman, SJ
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr JP Sullivan , Professor SJ Buckman
Experiments will be carried out to verify the existence of positron binding to atoms.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr JP Sullivan , Professor SJ Buckman
This experimental project will investigate the interactions of positrons with a variety of molecules of biological relevance.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB
The student will produce unique zeolite structures and perform characterization experiments on them using the materials beamline at the Australian Positron Beamline facility.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr JP Sullivan , Professor SJ Buckman
This experimental project will take advantage of a high energy resolution positron beam to measure positron interactions with targets of fundamental interest.
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
The student will use a pulsed positron beam for materials characterisation through PALS (Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy) experiments.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Electron beams will be used to study excitation of atoms and molecules at low energies
Cavanagh, SJ
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr SJ Cavanagh , Dr ST Gibson
This project will characterize various sulphur oxide compounds, in particular SO3, and the number of clustered water molecules and their arrangement required for their reaction to sulfuric acid, H2SO4, under gas phase conditions.
Suitable for: Honours
Supervisor: Dr SJ Cavanagh , Dr ST Gibson
Velocity-map imaging of charged particles has become a leading technique for the study of atoms and molecules, especially when using laser radiation. This project will allow the student to study highly reactive short-lived radials in the gas-phase with instrumentation that is considered to be the worlds best.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr SJ Cavanagh , Dr ST Gibson
This project will investigation the critical and rate controlling step in all chemical reactions, the formation of a transition state that links reactants and products of a chemical reaction.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr ST Gibson , Dr SJ Cavanagh
A systematic experimental and theoretical study of the photodetachment angular anisotropy parameters for a series of negative ions will be undertaken to elucidate the nature of nondipole and relativistic effects in photodetachment. This investigation will use our world-leading state-of-the-art velocity-map imaging photodetachment spectrometer to provide complete spectra, uniquely providing high-energy-resolution cross sections with full angular detail and the key dependence on photodetachment energy.
Gibson, ST
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr SJ Cavanagh , Dr ST Gibson
This project will characterize various sulphur oxide compounds, in particular SO3, and the number of clustered water molecules and their arrangement required for their reaction to sulfuric acid, H2SO4, under gas phase conditions.
Suitable for: Honours
Supervisor: Dr SJ Cavanagh , Dr ST Gibson
Velocity-map imaging of charged particles has become a leading technique for the study of atoms and molecules, especially when using laser radiation. This project will allow the student to study highly reactive short-lived radials in the gas-phase with instrumentation that is considered to be the worlds best.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr SJ Cavanagh , Dr ST Gibson
This project will investigation the critical and rate controlling step in all chemical reactions, the formation of a transition state that links reactants and products of a chemical reaction.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr ST Gibson , Dr SJ Cavanagh
A systematic experimental and theoretical study of the photodetachment angular anisotropy parameters for a series of negative ions will be undertaken to elucidate the nature of nondipole and relativistic effects in photodetachment. This investigation will use our world-leading state-of-the-art velocity-map imaging photodetachment spectrometer to provide complete spectra, uniquely providing high-energy-resolution cross sections with full angular detail and the key dependence on photodetachment energy.
Ivanov, IA
Suitable for: PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Professor A Kheifets , Dr IA Ivanov
Using methods of quantum many-body theory to describe elementary processes in atoms and molecules interacting with strong electromagnetic fields.
Kheifets, A
Suitable for: PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Professor A Kheifets , Dr IA Ivanov
Using methods of quantum many-body theory to describe elementary processes in atoms and molecules interacting with strong electromagnetic fields.
Lower, JCA
Suitable for: PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr JCA Lower , Professor E Weigold
The student will investigate ways to control the rate and nature of molecular breakup
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Electron beams will be used to study excitation of atoms and molecules at low energies
Mills, FP
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr FP Mills
Review archived very high resolution spectra (R ~ 200,000+) of Venus for evidence of molecular oxygen absorption features and determine instrument performance for requesting future dedicated observing time.
Suitable for: Honours, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr FP Mills
Analyse and interpret remote sensing measurements of aerosol optical properties made by ground-based instruments at selected sites around Australia. Devise statistical descriptions of the impact of aerosols on surface ultraviolet radiation at these sites with the assistance of radiative transfer model calculations.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr FP Mills
Develop an energy balance model based on research publications that can be used in undergraduate laboratory exercises to simulate the Earth's climate and allow students to interactively explore the sensitivity of Earth's climate to key parameters that affect the absorption and redistribution of energy in the Earth system.
Suitable for: Honours, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr FP Mills
Calculate the diurnal (day to night) variation of ozone in Venus' atmosphere using a one-dimensional version of the Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory photochemical model. Compare results with relevant observations from the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr FP Mills
Design, implement, and test an automated scheme for coupling multiple instances of an existing one-dimensional model. For example, one instance of the model may simulate the average day side chemistry while another simulates the average night side chemistry. The coupling scheme would then simulate the transport of chemical species between the two hemispheres.
Robson, RE
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr RE Robson
In this project we develop the kinetic theory of positrons in soft, biological matter with a view to enhancing resolution in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.
Sullivan, JP
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr JP Sullivan , Professor SJ Buckman
Experiments will be carried out to verify the existence of positron binding to atoms.
Suitable for: PhB, Honours
Supervisor: Dr JP Sullivan
This experimental project will use a new type of electron scattering experiment to measure cross sections of interest to plasma modelling.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr JP Sullivan , Professor SJ Buckman
This experimental project will investigate the interactions of positrons with a variety of molecules of biological relevance.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB
The student will produce unique zeolite structures and perform characterization experiments on them using the materials beamline at the Australian Positron Beamline facility.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr JP Sullivan , Professor SJ Buckman
This experimental project will take advantage of a high energy resolution positron beam to measure positron interactions with targets of fundamental interest.
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
The student will use a pulsed positron beam for materials characterisation through PALS (Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy) experiments.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Electron beams will be used to study excitation of atoms and molecules at low energies
Truscott, AG
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AG Truscott
We will use ultracold clouds of metastable helium to probe the surface of an atom chip
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AG Truscott
Make a dual condensate, comprising groundstate Rb atoms and excited state He* atoms
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AG Truscott
A He* condensate will be used to test some of the fundamental tenants of quantum mechanics
Vos, M
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr M Vos
What information is contained in the spectra and angular distributions of electrons scattered at high energies from surfaces? Now such measurements are possible with sub-eV resolution, we are discovering a wide range of phenomena buried in these spectra. Can we understand them, and can we develop such experiments into a novel analytical technique? This is the challenge of this research.
Suitable for: PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr M Vos
Recent theory predicts intricate line shapes of the spectra of keV electrons scattered from molecules over large angles. Can we establish if these predictions are correct? Similar momentum transfer collisions are studied in neutron scattering experiments using neutrons with energies of several eV. The theory developed here appears different, but are they deep down the same? These are the basic questions we aim to answer.
Weigold, E
Suitable for: PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr JCA Lower , Professor E Weigold
The student will investigate ways to control the rate and nature of molecular breakup
Went, MR
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB
The student will produce unique zeolite structures and perform characterization experiments on them using the materials beamline at the Australian Positron Beamline facility.
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
The student will use a pulsed positron beam for materials characterisation through PALS (Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy) experiments.