| Research
Awards / Fellowships
and Scholarships / Cormack Scholarships/Postgraduate Prize/Small Astronomy Research Grants |
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| Cormack Postgraduate Prize - closing date Monday, 4th October 2010 |
| The Robert Cormack Bequest Committee annually awards a Postgraduate Research Prize to recognise and reward the most outstanding postgraduate student contribution to astronomical research in Scotland. In Session 2008/09 the Prize was awarded to Hazel Bain, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, for her paper entitled “Hard X-ray emission from a flare-related jet”.
I am now writing to seek nominations for the 2009/10 awards and would therefore be grateful if you could submit your nomination(s) to me by Monday, 4th October 2010.
The Prize “will be awarded for the best astronomical research paper, accepted for publication in the period from 1st July to 30 June in the year of the award, with the nominated student the prime author of the paper”.
Nominations should therefore comprise of a copy of the paper and a formal statement from his/her supervisor providing (in the case of multi-author papers) an indication of the student’s contribution and a brief statement of the relevance of the paper in its specialist context, but NOT a letter of praise for the paper. |
| Nominators Form (Word) (PDF) |
Postgraduate Prize Poster |
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| Cormack Small Astronomy Research Grant - closing date Monday, 4th October 2010 |
| The Robert Cormack Bequest Committee is able to make small Research Grants to individuals or groups for Public Understanding of Science activities. This scheme is intended to help set up new projects, or to add new elements to existing ones, rather than to fund ongoing activities.
Funded projects must benefit a wider audience (e.g. public visitors, whole school) rather than the recipients of the funds (e.g. Astronomical Society, School Class or Club). A total of £1000 is available this year and it is most likely that this will be divided among a number of awards. The outcome of applications will be announced in late November.
In 2009, awards included:
- Shetland Astronomical Society
- Sir E Scott Secondary School, Isle of Harris
- Cosmic Sky
Closing date: Monday, 4th October 2010 |
| Poster Small Astronomy Research Grant |
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| Robert Cormack
Bequest / Piazzi Smyth Bequest Vacation Research Scholarships - closing date now passed |
| Under the auspices of the Robert Cormack Bequest fund, the Royal Society of Edinburgh is pleased to invite applications for a limited number of undergraduate Summer Vacation Research Scholarships in the field of Astronomy. These may include one Piazzi Smyth Bequest Research Scholarship for work clearly related to mountain top observing/data. |
| Cormack Regulations |
Word |
PDF |
| Cormack Application |
Word |
PDF |
| Cormack Poster |
PDF |
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| Please note that the above files refer to the 2010 round of applications |
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| CORMACK UNDERGRADUATE VACATION RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS |
| PROJECT AVAILABILITY |
| The following is a list
of Institutions which may have vacation projects available
in the areas indicated and the contact person whom you
should approach if interested in making an application
to carry out a project there. |
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| University of Glasgow
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PROJECT AREAS
: Solar and astrophysical plasmas; solar x-ray data
analysis; stellar mass loss data modelling; cosmology;
stellar pulsation and distance indicators; VLF radio
astronomy; polarimetry; astrodynamics; image and signal
processing; gravitational wave detectors
CONTACT : Professor
John C Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
G12 8QQ. Tel. 0141 330 5182. |
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University of St Andrews
Department of Physics & Astronomy |
PROJECT AREAS
: Cosmology; MOND; galaxy formation; galactic structure;
binary stars; active galactic nuclei; stellar surface
imaging; stellar coronae; star formation; extra-solar
planets
CONTACT ADDRESS :
Keith Horne,
Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North
Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS. Tel 01334 463322,
Fax 01334 463104 |
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| University of Edinburgh |
PROJECT AREAS
: Cosmology, theoretical and observational; galaxies;
quasars and active galactic nuclei; low mass stars and
brown dwarfs; high redshift objects; star formation
CONTACT ADDRESS :
Professor J S Dunlop ,
Head of Institute, Institute for Astronomy, University
of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh,
EH9 3HJ. Tel. +44 (0)131 668 8349. Fax +44 (0)131 668
8264 |
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Department of Mathematical
Sciences
University of Aberdeen |
PROJECT AREAS
: Mathematical Relativistic and/or non-Relativistic
Cosmology
CONTACT ADDRESS :
Professor
G S Hall, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Meston
Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE.
Tel: 01224 272 748. |
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| Glasgow Caledonian University |
PROJECT AREAS
: Celestial Mechanics; Solar System Dynamics; Few-Body
Problem
CONTACT ADDRESS :
Dr Bonnie Steves,
Department of Mathematics, Glasgow Caledonian University,
Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA. Tel: 0141 331 3619.
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| University of St Andrews |
PROJECT AREAS
: Solar Physics; Solar Magnetic Fields; Analytical and
Computational Models of: solar flares, solar prominences,
the solar corona, magnetic waves, magnetic flux tubes,
magnetic instabilities, formation of singularities,
accretion discs, star forming regions, stellar and galactic
winds, jets
CONTACT ADDRESS :
Professor Bernard
Roberts, Department of Mathematical and Computational
Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16
9SS. Tel: 01334 463716. |
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| University of Strathclyde |
| PROJECT AREAS
: Laboratory Surface Astrophysics, Nanofabrication of
Surfaces for Astronomical Applications, Astrochemistry,
Chemical Reactivity and Astrobiology, Observations of
Star Forming regions with SPITZER & VLT
- Studying Water Ice in Interstellar
Regions
- Photo-desorption and Photochemical Reactions of PAHs
and Ices under Interstellar Conditions
- Ice Mapping on 1000 AU Scales
- Methanol and Formic Acid in Space; Just what is the
relationship?
CONTACT ADDRESS
: Dr Helen
Jane Fraser, Department of Physics, SUPA (Scottish
universities Physics Alliance) University of Strathclyde,
107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow, G4 0NG. G4 0NG. Tel: 0141
548 3420. |
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PROJECT AREAS
: Observations of Prominences and solar mass ejections
using the CDS and sumer instruments on the Soho Satellite
Opacity studies of solar active regions
using the sumer spectrometer on Soho
CONTACT ADDRESS :
Professor
Hugh P Summers, Department of Physics and Applied
Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow, Glasgow,
G4 0NG. Tel: 0141 553 4196. |
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PROJECT AREAS
: Solar sail trajectories and mission analysis; Spacecraft
autonomy for astronomy missions; Small body atmospheric
entry dynamics; Interplanetary dust evolution; N-body
celestial mechanics
CONTACT ADDRESS :
Professor
C R McInnes, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, University
of Strathclyde, James
Weir Building, Glasgow
G1 1XJ. Tel : +44 (0) 141 548 2049. Fax :
+44 (0) 141 552 5105 |
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Department of Mathematics
& Statistics
University of Edinburgh |
PROJECT AREAS
: Numerical Hydrodynamics of Astrophysical Objects,
eg Accretion on to Black Holes, Mergings of Neutron
Star Binaries, Equations-of-State of Matter, Gamma-Ray
Bursts
CONTACT ADDRESS :
Dr Maximilian Ruffert,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University
of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9
3JZ. Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5039 Fax: +44 (0)131 650 6553
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| Last Updated
27 August 2010 |
