Recruitment

Job announcements to join BURSTT

Call for a BURSTT postdoc (due on 30 Nov. 2022)

BURSTT seeks a postdoctoral fellow to work on research programs that aim to study FRBs and related science or technical developments of BURSTT, including beamforming, RFI removal, etc. The applicants can select a preferable working place from the following institutes, depending on the supervisor.

  • National Chung Hsing University

  • National Changhua University of Education

  • National Tsing Hua University

  • National Taiwan University

  • Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The application deadline is 30 November 2022.

Please see the following link for details:

https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/43177629

Call for EACOA fellowships (due on 15 Nov. 2022)

BURSTT seeks for fellows to join BURSTT under the 2023 East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA) Research Fellowship Program. To join BURSTT, please select 'region 4': Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA).

The application deadline is 15 November 2022.

Please see the following link for details.
https://www.eacoa.net/program2023.php

Call for Postdoctoral Researchers in Observation, Theory, or Instrumentation
(due on 15 Nov. 2022)

BURSTT seeks for fellows to join BURSTT under the following postdoctoral positions. The Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) in Taipei, Taiwan, has multiple openings for postdoctoral positions. ASIAA seeks candidates to pursue observational and theoretical studies in the Institute's projects in solar system science, star and planet formation, galaxy formation and evolution, cosmology, and high energy astrophysics; or to participate in instrumentation development for optical/IR/submm telescopes.

The application deadline is 15 November 2022.

Please see the following link for details:
ASIAA - Job Openings (sinica.edu.tw)

Students recruitment (technical developments)

BURSTT seeks for students who work on the following development components

Beam forming

Contact: Kai-Yang Lin (ASIAA)

RFI removal

Contact: Kai-Yang Lin (ASIAA)

Site investigation

Contact: Pisin Chen (NTU)

Outrigger station at Hawaii

Contact: Ming-Tang Chen

Students recruitment (science oriented)

BURSTT seeks for students who work on the following science cases

Progenitor identification

Contact:

Chin-Ping Hu (NCUE)

FRB statistics and classification

Contact:

Tetsuya Hashimoto (NCHU)

Multi-wavelength/messenger counterparts

Contact:

Chin-Ping Hu (NCUE)

Tetsuya Hashimoto (NCHU)

Host galaxies

Contact:

Tomotsugu Goto (NTHU)

Tetsuya Hashimoto (NCHU)

Scintillation

Contact: Ue-Li Pen (ASIAA)

Polarization

Contact: Ue-Li Pen (ASIAA)

FRBs as cosmic probes

Contact:

Tomotsugu Goto (NTHU)

Tetsuya Hashimoto (NCHU)

FRB progenitor model

Contact: Ue-Li Pen (ASIAA)

Shotaro Yamasaki (NCHU)

Image credits

  • The first image: Chalmers University of Technology/Daniëlle Futselaar, artsource.nl. © Institute of Physics (the “Institute”) and IOP Publishing Limited 2019. https://physicsworld.com/a/source-of-fast-radio-bursts-surprises-astronomers/

  • The second image: Hsiu-Hsien Lin et al. 2022 accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

  • The third image: Hsiu-Hsien Lin et al. 2022 accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

  • The fourth image: freepik

  • The fifth image: irasutoya

  • The sixth image: Tetsuya Hashimoto

  • The seventh image: Tetsuya Hashimoto et al., 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 511, Issue 2, pp.1961-1976

  • The eighth image: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet

  • The ninth image: Gemini Observatory / NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory / AURA

  • The tenth image: Ravi et al., 2016, Science, Volume 354, Issue 6317, pp. 1249-1252

  • The 11th image: Cho et al., 2020, the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 891, Issue 2, id.L38, 10 pp.

  • The 12th image: Illustris Collaboration

  • The 13th image: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine