There's a PhD studentship to work with me in the Imaging and Sensing group at Manchester Metropolitan University. The main drive of the work I'm interested in is the use of digital type radio receivers which sample short words (single bit, 1.5bit 2 bits) and then digitally cross-correlating them to develop sensing applications. The objectives are to examine simple analogue/digital electronic circuits, high-speed mathematical operations running inside FPGAs, and algorithms operating on accumulated quantities that exploit coherence properties of passive (radiometric) emission. Radio astronomy aperture synthesis is a good application of this technique, but the objective here is examine other moments of coherence and algorithms in a general sense to find new sensing and imaging schemes, perhaps some quantum measurements, and to find new applications.
Interested parties should check out the link http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=69983&LID=2719 http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-study/studentships/engineering-and-materials/ and contact me if they have an interest. Although the PhD studentship is for a European student, I'd be interested to hear from potential students from further afield, for which I'd need to make a case and find a sponsor. Many thanks, Neil -------------------------- Dr Neil A. Salmon Sensing and Imaging Group, School of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK Office: +44 (0)161 247-1697, Mob: +44 (0)7921172892 "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer "
