The Director, Don Melrose, is responsible for all management decisions regarding the Special Research Centre. An Advisory Board comprising senior astrophysicists and theoretical physicists, which meets formally on a yearly basis, provides advice on major and strategic issues. Research Fellows and Post-Doctoral Fellows of the SRCfTA are responsible for specific administrative tasks as outlined in the accompanying diagram. Administrative support is ably provided by the Special Research Centre's Administrative Officer, Ms Jenny Thompson.
Dr Norbert Wex was a Visiting Fellow with SRCfTA again, for five months to August, working in particular with Simon Johnston on observations and interpretation of PSR B1259-63 (see Research Highlight 4.6), and funded jointly by the Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany and the SRCfTA.
The close ties with the SRCfTA of Dr Dave Galloway of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Drs Neil Cramer and Peter Robinson of the Sir Frank Packer Theoretical Physics Department and the ARC Research Fellow Sergey Vladimirov, continued in 1997.
A complete list of staff together with their research interests is given in Appendix A.
Staff of the SRCfTA & administrative responsibilities
Staff of the SRCfTA. From left, back row: Jenny Thompson, Simon Johnston, Lewis Ball, Kinwah Wu; front: Michelle Storey, Don Melrose, Jenny Nicholls, Jeanette Weise.
SRCfTA affiliates. From left: Neil Cramer and Sergey Vladimirov.
Special Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics