Canadian Graduate Student Proposals for the JCMT
The Canadian Time Allocation Group (CTAG) for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) would again like to call the attention of all Canadian astronomers to the opportunities for graduate students in Canadian universities to use the JCMT for part, or all of, their thesis project.
There are established policies regarding graduate students in Canadian universities (see original guidelines in 1990 March issue of Newsletter of the JCMT - pages 13 and 18). These CTAG policies became operational in September 1990.
This note is a reminder of the opportunities available and is meant to encourage graduate students to use the JCMT for their thesis research.
Graduate students who intend to use the JCMT for a significant part of their thesis work may submit a proposal (with a longer scientific justification of 2 pages total) to the CTAG. For thesis status, please mark the JCMT Application for Observing Time as "Student Thesis Status Requested?" YES.
Somewhere on these two pages of scientific justification, C-TAG would like to see
- a short abstract of their intended thesis,
- how this JCMT proposal fits in with their thesis, and
- what is the expected completion date of their thesis.
If student thesis status is requested, the student must be
the PI.
A Thesis Status Proposal, if accepted by CTAG, will receive protection against bad weather and/or instrument failure. Note that it is not the full thesis project that is protected, but only that individual JCMT proposal.
Successful proposals in this category will be scheduled for all the observing time requested in the upcoming semester, and will be renewed by CTAG in succeeding semesters until the proposed observations have been completed. Students should submit a progress report (and a statement of the weather/instrument conditions) to CTAG before the date of their semi-annual meeting, if applicable.
Henry Matthews
CTAG Chair
Penticton
(first enforced) February 2003
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