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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
The evolution of brightest cluster galaxies with BEAMS	Rosalind	Skelton	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
ADFS-MeerKAT : Time-Domain Extragalactic Astronomy with MeerKAT Observations of the Akari Deep Field South	Mattia	Vaccari	University of the Western Cape (UWC)	(UCT)
Examining Star Formation and Molecular Gas in M100	Moses	Mogotsi	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
SALT Observations of candidate black holes in transient Low Mass X-ray Binaries	David	Buckley	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Accretion onto Modified Gravity (MOG) black holes	Anslyn	John	Rhodes University (RU)	(UCT)
Multi-Wavelength Studies of Strong Gravitational Lensing	Lucia	Marchetti	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Finding extreme star-forming galaxies for SALT in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey	Matthew	Bershady	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Long-term multiwavelength monitoring of gamma-ray binaries	Itumeleng	Monageng	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Runaway stars and the formation of bow shocks	Shazrene	Mohamed	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Interactions of planets with evolved stars	Shazrene	Mohamed	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Explosive transients from stellar collisions	Shazrene	Mohamed	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Using SALT’s high-resolution spectrograph to measure radial velocities in X-ray binaries	Lee	Townsend	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Population synthesis studies of high mass X-ray binaries	Naomi	Titus	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Defining an interesting sample of new MeerKAT radio sources	Retha	Pretorius	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Determining the most powerful radio-galaxies in the southern sky	Sarah	White	Rhodes University (RU)	(UCT)
Spectroscopy of a strange binary	Vanessa	McBride	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Can we exam Gaussianity of primordial fluctuations with SKA-II?	Yin-Zhe	Ma	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
Scheduling algorithms for mini-trackers on SALT	Retha	Pretorius	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Machine Learning for Photometric Redshift Estimation of Distant Quasars	Khadija	El Bouchefry	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Search for Fossil Groups using Multiwavelength Data and Virtual Observatory Tools	Khadija	El Bouchefry	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)

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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
ADFS-MeerKAT : Time-Domain Extragalactic Astronomy with MeerKAT Observations of the Akari Deep Field South	Mattia	Vaccari	University of the Western Cape (UWC)	(UCT)
Extended radio sources in the SMC	Vanessa	McBride	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Preparing for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space & Time (LSST)	David	Buckley	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Structure formation with bulk viscosity	Anslyn	John	Rhodes University (RU)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Multi-Wavelength Studies of Strong Gravitational Lensing	Lucia	Marchetti	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Studying giant pulses in eclipsing binaries of Southerly millisecond pulsars using MeerKAT.	Shazrene	Mohamed	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Fibre-Optical Integral Field Spectroscopy with SALT	Matthew	Bershady	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Runaway stars and the formation of bow shocks	Shazrene	Mohamed	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Interactions of planets with evolved stars	Shazrene	Mohamed	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Explosive transients from stellar collisions	Shazrene	Mohamed	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
The broad spectral energy distributions of accreting white dwarfs	Retha	Pretorius	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Machine Learning for Galaxy Morphology Classification	Khadija	El Bouchefry	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Gravitational lensing beyond geometric optics	Julien	Larena	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
MeerHoGS: The role of environment in the baryon cycle of galaxies	Thomas	Jarrett	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
The growth of brightest cluster galaxies over the past 7 billion years	Matt	Hilton	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
Study on Biomass burning over South Africa using space and ground based instrumentation	Sivakumar	Venkataraman	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
RFI detection in HIRAX Data using Machine Learning Techniques	Kavilan	Moodley	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
Dynamics of small-body ring systems	Amanda	Sickafoose	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Data Mining and Virtual Observatory: Identifying galaxies, quasars and stars in multiwavelength surveys	Khadija	El Bouchefry	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Data Mining and Virtual Observatory: Identifying galaxies, quasars and stars in multi-wavelength surveys	Khadija	El Bouchefry	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)