Get-together of the PhD students

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On June 5th, we had the third get-together of the PhD students that are supervised by the astronomers at ASTRON. Thanks to the various personal grants (like ERC) and the collaboration with NOVA, we now have a record number of PhD students. They visit ASTRON regularly but they spend most of their time at their university, in particular Groningen and Amsterdam.

The get-together aimed at offering the opportunity to the students to present their projects, and to the ASTRON astronomers to present some of the work done in the astronomy group. We had a full program, with long presentations from those who are already advanced in their PhD, and short presentations from the others.

The projects of the students cover a broad variety of science and technical topics and are making use of all our facilities, from the WSRT to LOFAR. Some of them are aimed at preparing for the upcoming Apertif. The get-together would of course not have been complete without a lunch at the BosPub, and the final "borrel".

With more students starting soon, we plan to regularly organize events like this. This will give the opportunity to everybody (students and astronomers) to stay uptodate on the progress of all these extremely exciting projects.