Dear Listowner,
Would you please distribute the following PhD place advert to your list. I
believe it may be of interest.
Thanks
Marek
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Opportunity at:
DEPARTMENT OF GEOMATIC ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
EPSRC FUNDED PHD OPPORTUNITY IN SATELLITE GEODESY AND ASTRODYNAMICS
An opportunity has arisen for a PhD student to participate in a new
international collaborative research project under the direction of
Professor Paul Cross that will lead to exciting employment possibilities in
the rapidly developing field of global navigation and space geodesy.
IMPROVING FORCE MODELS FOR THE REAL-TIME PREDICTION OF GNSS SATELLITE
POSITIONS
The student will work as part of a team to develop modelling techniques for
the non-conservative forces acting on GNSS spacecraft in medium Earth orbit
arising from anisotropic thermal radiation, as well as from solar radiation
pressure and albedo effects. The specific role of the student will be to
work on modelling of heat transport mechanisms for the spacecraft in the
course of its orbital trajectory. This will involve radiative transfer
theory, finite element/finite difference methods, space environment
simulation and orbit modelling. The project involves collaboration with NASA
s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, California) and the UK NERC Space
Geodesy group. There will be the opportunity to visit, and work at, JPL each
year over the period of study, as well as working with and visiting the NERC
group at both Monks Wood, near Huntingdon and Herstmonceux in Sussex. There
will also be opportunities to attend and present papers at major
international conferences.
Following the EU decision to develop a European GNSS (Galileo) such
technology has become an important growth area in global infrastructure, and
this PhD studentship is an excellent opportunity to develop highly
marketable skills in the subject.
Start date 1 October 2001
Contact information:
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Department of Geomatic Engineering
University College London
Gower Street,
London, WC1E 6BT
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 3638
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7380 0453
Further details concerning the studentship are at :
http://www.ge.ucl.ac.uk/people/vacancies/index.html
EPSRC studentships are available to persons with a good honours degree who
fulfill certain UK residency criteria. Please refer to the following URL:
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/TRAINING/INUNI/INTRO/INTRO.asp?Main.htm
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