Professor Michael Drinkwater
Professor of Astrophysics
Phone: 53428
E-mail m.drinkwater@uq.edu.au
BSc (Syd), PhD (Cambridge)
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Available Projects
| Title | Body | Level |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| What turns spiral galaxies into elliptical galaxies in galaxy groups? |
It is well known that dense galaxy clusters contain a much higher fraction of elliptical galaxies compared to spiral galaxies than more typical less dense regions of the Universe. Many processes have been proposed to explain how spiral galaxies can change into elliptical galaxies in clusters,... |
PhD Project Masters Project Honours Project |
