ASTRON/JIVE Summer Student Programme 2019 - The Netherlands

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Could you please distribute this advertisement to undergraduate students who might be interested in the ASTRON/JIVE Summer Student Programme.

The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) and the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) announce the availability of a limited number of grants for their 2019 Summer Research Programme. The Programme enables astronomy students (graduate or advanced under-graduate) to spend the summer (10-12 weeks) at the institute in Dwingeloo in the Netherlands, conducting astronomical research under the supervision of ASTRON and JIVE staff members.

Possible topics of study may include radio galaxies and quasars, aspects of observational cosmology, continuum and line mission/absorption from normal and starburst galaxies, stellar maser astrometry, faint radio sources, pulsar timing, pulsar searching, synchrotron transients, fast radio bursts, molecular clouds, cosmic magnetism, space science as well as algorithm development - or similar topics, depending on what supervisors will have to offer.

The actual project the successful candidate will work on will be defined after arrangement with the local supervisor. The programme is not aimed at engineering or electronics students.

ASTRON operates the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a cutting-edge, low-frequency, multi-field aperture array telescope that is using transformational technologies and novel software approaches to explore the Universe between 10-240 MHz. ASTRON also operates the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) which is equipped with the new APERTIF phased array feeds, greatly increasing the survey speed of the telescope.

JIVE is the main data processor centre of the European VLBI Network (EVN) and is leading the development of real-time e-VLBI in Europe. For more information see the institutes’ websites.

The research grants will provide successful candidates with accommodation in the locality of the Observatory, a modest stipend for up to three months, and full travel reimbursement. We expect the participants to start early June 2019 to ensure overlap of the participants so they can fully benefit from the scheduled lectures and social activities.

More information about recent summer student programmes can be found at http://www.astron.nl/astronomy-group/as ... -programme

Applications for the programme should be sent via the registration form at this website. Please note that two letters of reference are needed; names and contact information of referees should be filled in before you can submit your application. Deadline for applications is 1 February 2019.

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1th International Summer School on Radar/SAR (5-12 July 2019)

It’s time again to kindly ask you to circulate our invitation to suitable candidates as the application period has just opened for our 11th International Summer School on Radar/SAR. It will take place from 5-12 July 2019 near Bonn, Germany.

During an entire week attendees will get deep insights into radar and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques from international experts while connecting with new and renowned members of the radar community! The focus of the International Summer School is on fundamentals, system design, and signal processing for cutting-edge radar/SAR systems for a broad range of applications.

If you want to print a poster and post it on prominent notice-boards you can download it here:

http://workshops.fhr.fraunhofer.de/summ ... Poster.pdf

Flyer:
http://workshops.fhr.fraunhofer.de/summ ... _Flyer.pdf

Registration has just opened (1st December) and will close by mid of March 2019!

Specific queries regarding the summer school should be addressed to: summerschool@fhr.fraunhofer.de.

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PhD Position in Control Theory

Department of Mathematics of the University of Zagreb invites applications for one Ph.D. position on the project "Control of Dynamical Systems", a research project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. More details about the project can be found on its web page http://condys.unidu.hr/.

The candidate would work in one the the following three areas of research, depending on the interest and the applicant's background:

- Control of parameter dependent problems
- Control of vibrational systems
- The cost of controlling hyperbolic partial differential equations in a multiscale setting

The candidate is required to have a master degree (or equivalent) in mathematics. Preferably, the candidate should be familiar with basics of functional analysis and PDEs or with linear algebra and numerical analysis. Knowledge of English is mandatory.

Organisation: Department of Mathematics University of Zagreb Croatia

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