ASTR480/PHYS480/MDPH480/MAPH480
Research Projects 2011
The following list serves as a guideline to the wide range of interesting topics currently being investigated in the Department. Feel free to contact potential supervisers (as listed below) if you find a topic of interest to you for your 2011, 400-Level 480 project.
Project Titles
Dr Jenni Adams and Dr Anthony Brown
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Prof Phil Butler, Dr Peter Renaud, Mathematics and Statistics and Dr Anthony Butler
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- Project One: SNOW WEB 2.0
- Project Two: Do Climate Models Simulate Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent Correctly?
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- Project One: Constraints on scalar field models of cosmic inflation
- Project Two: Dynamical Gravity and Holographic Universe
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- Project One: Analysing non-radial oscillations in stars
- Project Two: Pulsations in RV Tauri stars
- Project Three: A survey of properties of Gamma Dor stars
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Assoc Prof Mike Reid, Prof Roger Reeves and Dr Jon Wells
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Assoc. Prof David L. Wiltshire and Teppo Mattsson
- Project One: Discrete universes - the Lindquist-Wheeler model
- Project Two: General relativitic galaxy models
- Project Three: Cosmological backgrounds and perturbations
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Further advice
If you have further questions, direct them as appropriate to:
400 Level Supervisor of Studies
Dr Jon-Paul Wells room
804, phone 364 2533
email: jon-paul.wells@canterbury.ac.nz
Head of Department
Room 710, phone 364 2404
email hod@phys.canterbury.ac.nz
or any of the lecturers concerned.