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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
Abell 1656 : How Typical is the Coma Cluster of Galaxies	Khadija	El Bouchefry	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Case Study in Quasar-Star Classification	Khadija	El Bouchefry	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Correlation between emission-line luminosity and gamma-ray dominance in blazars	Markus	Boettcher	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Hunting for High-redshift Radio Galaxy Candidates	Kshitij	Thorat	University of Pretoria (UP)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Resolving AGN feedback in high redshift starbursts	Jack	Radcliffe	University of Pretoria (UP)	(UCT) (NWU)
Studying giant pulses in the Large Magellanic Cloud pulsar B0540-69	Marisa	Geyer	SKA SA	(UCT)
Dynamical Systems Analysis of the three-body problem	Keshlan	Govinder	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
Thermal gas kinematic of massive protostars	James	Chibueze	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Black holes and accretion disks in Modified Gravity (MOG)	Haidar	Sheikh Ahmadi	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Viscous Dark Fluid Cosmologies	Amare	Abebe	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Accretion Burst in Massive Stars - The Origin of Maser Periodicity?	James	Chibueze	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Modelling Broadband Emission from Pulsars	Christo	Venter	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Dynamics of Supernova Remnants with MeerKAT	James	Chibueze	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Dark Energy: Theory and Phenomenology	Amare	Abebe	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Study of radio galaxies in the Complete Local-Volume Groups Sample (CLoGS) fields: A search for distant powerful radio sources	Konstantinos	Kolokythas	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Galaxy evolution in the Complete Local-Volume Groups Sample (CLoGS): Properties of group member galaxies and the relation to their environment	Konstantinos	Kolokythas	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
A more optimized approach to numerical cosmic ray transport studies	Nicholas Eugene	Engelbrecht	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Numerical simulations of Astrospheres	Stefan	Ferreira	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Neutron monitor multiplicity measurements	Du Toit	Strauss	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Coulomb collisions in the solar wind	Du Toit	Strauss	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)

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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
The Nature of Compact Sources Detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Matt	Hilton	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
The Galaxy Population of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Selected Clusters	Matt	Hilton	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
Cross-correlation study of Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect with luminous red galaxies	Yin-Zhe	Ma	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
Constraining the Dark Matter property with 21-cm observation	Yin-Zhe	Ma	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
Machine Learning Techniques for Source Classification and Photometric Redshift Estimation	Khadija	El Bouchefry	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)	(UKZN)
Resolving AGN feedback in high redshift starbursts	Jack	Radcliffe	University of Pretoria (UP)	(UCT) (NWU)
Unveiling the faintest nuclear activity using high-resolution stacking	Jack	Radcliffe	University of Pretoria (UP)	(UCT) (NWU)
Measuring the mass-spin relation for galaxies in the Simba simulation	Ed	Elson	University of the Western Cape (UWC)	(UCT)
Search for TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud	Nukri	Komin	University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)	(NWU)
A new spectrograph: Characterization and early transient science	Retha	Pretorius	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Exploiting MeerKAT’s discovery of vast numbers of radio point sources	Retha	Pretorius	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
SuperDARN radar groundscatter statistics	Michael	Kosch	South African National Space Agency (SANSA)	(UKZN)
Photons in Darkness: The Search for Dark Matter	Deepak	Kar	University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)	(NWU)
Multi-scale study of massive star forming region NGC 6334I/F	James	Chibueze	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Large-scale Structure Constraints of Modified Gravity	Amare	Abebe	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Neutrino emission from bright blazar flares	Markus	Boettcher	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Multi-wavelength study of radio galaxies in MeerKAT fields	James	Chibueze	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Molecular dynamics simulations of the plasma - surface interactions of poly(2,5)benzimidazole enhanced with carbon nanotubes for space applications.	Lynndle	Square	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Numerical simulations of the radiation environment in stellar wind astrospheres	Stefan	Ferreira	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Understanding the origin of bunny-hop light curves of periodic methanol masers	Johan	van der Walt	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)