Professor Michael Drinkwater
Professor of Astrophysics
Available Projects
| Title | Body | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Star formation in the most massive galaxies in the universe |
[Not available before February 2013 as Prof. Drinkwater is away.] The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey is an ambitious 4-year project designed to detect sound waves from the early universe. These will be used to test theories about dark energy: the mysterious force currently making the... |
PhD Project Masters Project Honours Project |
| The Formation of Massive Star Clusters |
[Not available before February 2013 as Prof. Drinkwater is away.] Globular star clusters are massive compact systems of up to a million stars. The globular clusters inside our own Milky Way galaxy contain some of the oldest stars... |
PhD Project Honours Project |
| Have galaxies been torn apart by the Hydra Cluster of Galaxies? |
[Not available before February 2013 as Prof. Drinkwater is away.] We recently discovered a new type of very small galaxy hiding in the central region of two nearby galaxy clusters. We call them... |
Honours Project Summer Project |
| Probing the distant universe for galaxy clusters |
[Not available before February 2013 as Prof. Drinkwater is away.] Here at UQ we are co-leading the WiggleZ Dark Energy... |
Honours Project Summer Project |
| Superwinds in massive star-forming galaxies |
[Not available before February 2013 as Prof. Drinkwater is away.] Here at UQ we are co-leading the WiggleZ Dark Energy... |
Honours Project Summer Project |
| Finding both common and unusual galaxies in the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey |
[Not available before February 2013 as Prof. Drinkwater is away.] The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey is an ambitious 4-year project designed to detect sound waves from the... |
Honours Project Summer Project |
| Using the Hubble Space Telescope to determine if galaxy collisions cause the rapid formation of new stars in distant galaxies |
Here at UQ we have just completed the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, identifying 240,000 of the most active star-forming galaxies known. We do not know what produces such high rates of star... |
PhD Project Masters Project Honours Project |
