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Ras Grant Applications Grants Submitted for Consideration by 15 February 2010 RAS GRANT APPLICATIONS GRANTS SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION BY 15 FEBRUARY 2010 Title of Application Applicant Name Amount Awarded 1. Funding for travel and Mr Matthew GARTHWAITE FRAS subsistence costs to attend School of Earth and Environment £495 AGU Fall Meeting (14-18 University of Leeds Dec 2009) 2. Travel grant for AGU Fall Mr Ian HAMLING FRAS Meeting Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics £542 (14-18 Dec 2009) School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds 3. Presentation at “UCF Winter Prof. I.W. ROXBURGH FRAS Workshop 2010: Exoplanets QMUL £350 for Planetary Scientists [email protected] Orelando, FL-USA, 6-8 Jan on behalf of Giammarco CAMPANELLA 4. International Conference on Mr Sohan JHEETA FRAS Chemical Evolution 4-8 £650 March 2010 – India Deadline Date: End Jan beginning of Feb 2010 5. Funding to attend the KITP Mr THRASTARSON FRAS programme The Theory and £900 Observation of Exoplanets California USA Deadline Date: Feb 20 2010 6. Identifying Gravitational Dr Dannielle BEWSHER FRAS Micro-lensing Events with Jeremiah Horrocks Institute £1,800 STEREO/HI University of Central Lancashire [email protected] 7. Support for a postgraduate Mr Nathan BOURNE FRAS student to participant in an University of Nottingham £160 international conference [email protected] “Infrared Emission ISM and Star Formation” Max Planck Institute 22-24 Feb 2010 8. Undergraduate Research Dr Martin BUREAU FRAS Bursary for Sanjay Nanda (on behalf of Sanjay Nanda, Indian £1,640 Institute of Technology) Physics (Astrophysics) University of Oxford [email protected] 9. RAS Grant for studies in Michele Cappellari Astronomy and Geophysics Sub-Department of Astrophysics £1,440 Undergraduate Research University of Oxford Bursary for Summer Student [email protected] Note: Has recently applied for Fellowship 10. The VISTA near-infrared Dr Maria-Rosa CIONI FRAS (Herts) YJK8 survey of the On behalf of Maria-Ida MOREITI £1,600 Magellanic System: Variable INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Stars in the LMC Bologna 11. Support for speakers for Dr Apostolos CHRISTOU FRAS International Meteor Armagh Observatory £525 Conference 2010 in Armagh College Hill, Armagh e-mail: [email protected] 12. The gas content of local Prof. Shawn COLE FRAS galaxies On behalf of Dr Lacey CEDRIC £1,440 Institute of Computational Cosmology Dept. of Physics, Durham University [email protected] [email protected] 13. Travel to Swinburne Mr Thomas Collett University, Australia to Oxford University £470 conduct a research project into Note: Recently applied for Fellowship quasar and GRBs e-mail: [email protected] 14. Shocks and particle Dr Judith H. CROSTON FRAS acceleration in radio-loud On behalf of Daniel Ollett £1,440 active galaxies School of Physics & Astronomy Proposal for undergraduate University of Southampton research bursary [email protected] 15. Application for funding to Mrs Lottie DAVIS FRAS attend the Astrobiology UCL £500 Science Conference in 2010 e-mail: [email protected] 16. Undergraduate Research Dr Joanna DUNKLEY Bursary „Holes in the Cosmic Oxford Astrophysics £1,800 Microwave Background‟ On behalf of an undergraduate student at Oxford still to be selected [email protected] Note: recently applied for Fellowship 17. Cosmic Origins : An Prof. Carlos FRENK FRAS Education Experience in 3D – Institute for Computational £1,000 Royal Society – Summer Cosmology, Dept of Physics Durham Science 2010 University [email protected] 18. Remote Observations of Dr Stephen FOSSEY FRAS Exoplanet Transits University of London Observatory £1,520 (Undergraduate Research UCL Bursary) e-mail: [email protected] 19. Attendance at “From Stars to Dr Jennifer HATCHELL FRAS Galaxies” Conference – On behalf of Mr Eli Bressert £730 Florida 2010 Astrophysics Group School of Physics University of Exeter [email protected] 20. Application for travel funding Dr Caitiona JACKMAN FRAS to attend the 2010 Western Space and Atmospheric Physics Group £500 Pacific Geophysics Meeting Imperial College London in Taiwan, June 2010 [email protected] 21. Position & Sizes of X-ray Dr E.P. KONTAR FRAS solar flare sources: Effect of Dept of Physics & Astronomy £720 Compton back scattering University of Glasgow On behalf of Ms Natasha L.S. Jeffrey [email protected] 22. Characterising plasma Dr Nicholas LABROSSE FRAS parameters in solar On behalf of Mr Richard Middlemiss £1,080 prominences Undergraduate research student (if the Nuffield Dept of Physics and Astronomy application fails) University of Glasgow [email protected] 23. Undergraduate research Prof. Andrew LIDDLE FRAS bursary, Stacey-Jo Dyas, UCL Astronomy Centre £1,440 to undertake a research project University of Sussex at Sussex during Summer [email protected] 2010 24. Multi-Wavebank Galaxy Dr Jon LOVEDAY FRAS Luminosity Function On behalf of Mr Harry Wilcox £1,080 Astronomy Centre University of Sussex [email protected] 25. Study of the X-ray variability Dr Thomas J. MACCARONE FRAS associated with relativistic jets On behalf of Ms Panagoulia £1,080 in X-ray binaries ELECTRA School of Physics and Astronomy University of Southampton [email protected] 26. High Resolution Imaging of Dr René OUDMAIJER FRAS Massive Young Stars On behalf of Mr Jacobs CLOSE £1,440 School of Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds e-mail: [email protected] 27. Computational Modelling of Dr Balaz PINTER FRAS Stellar Brightness Variations Co-Supervisor Fund one grant for Caused by Active Region Keiran Burrows (in the process of Burrows - see Transits applying for Fellowship) Application below on behalf of Mr Stuart MUMFORD Institute of Maths & Physics Aberystwyth University [email protected] 28. A Novel Observational Dr Balaz PINTER FRAS Technique to Detect Active Co-Supervisor Regions on Distant Stars Keiran Burrows (in the process of applying for Fellowship) Application on behalf of Miss Hannah Ruth WAKEFORD Institute of Maths & Physics Aberystwyth University [email protected] 29. Variation of Magnetic Fields Dr Balaz PINTER FRAS Observed in the Umbra and Application on behalf of Penumbra Mr Karl STOKES Institute of Maths & Physics Aberystwyth University [email protected] 30. Tracking the Evolution of the Dr Balaz PINTER FRAS Power of Sound Waves in and Application on behalf of No group has ever around Sunspots On behalf of Mr Andrew LEONARD got more than two Institute of Maths & Physics grants for students Aberystwyth University in an RAS round, [email protected] and so we propose to award one grant to be supervised by Dr Pinter (£1800) and one by Dr Pinter and Dr Burrows (£1800). It is up to the applicants to select the two students. 31. Support for attending Ms Vinothin SANGARALINGAM Workshop '2010 Sagan FRAS £800 xoplanet Summer Workshop' School of Physics and Astronomy Pasadena, CA University of Birmingham July 26-30 2010 Birmingham [email protected] 32. European Geosciences Union Mr Neel SAVANI FRAS (EGU) Space and Atmospheric Physics £624 General Assembly 2010 Huxley 6M65 Travel Grant Imperial College London [email protected] 33. Attendance at Exoplanets Mr Christopher WATKINS FRAS Rising: Astronomy and Queen Mary, University of London £200 Planetary Science at the [email protected] Crossroads (Conference) Kavil Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 29 March to 2 April 2010 34. Workshop Travel Grant Mr Daniel WENT FRAS (Meudon) 3 Day Space and Atmospheric Physics £230 Magnetospheric and Plasma Group, The Blackett Laboratory Science Imperial College (MAPS) Workshop - April [email protected] 2010 35. Presenting VLTI data the Prof. Albert ZIJLSTRA FRAS APN5 Conference On behalf of Miss Foteini LYKOU £285 (June 20-25, 2010) in Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, Bownes-in-Windermere Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester [email protected] 36. Support to attend AbSciCon Miss Claire COUSINS FRAS 2010 Dept. Earth Sciences £1,046 "Evolution and Life: University College London Surviving Catastrophes and [email protected] Extremes on Earth and Beyond" League City, Texas - April 26-29 „10 37. Support to attend IAU Dr Lara SILVERS FRAS Symposium 271 Centre for Mathematical Science, £480 SEMS City University London [email protected] 38. Support for Royal Society Prof. Michael KENDALL FRAS Exhibit on East African Rift Dept of Earth Sciences £1,000 University of Bristol [email protected] .
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