A/Prof Patrick Alan Woudt Associate Professor MSc Groningen (NL) PhD Cape Town (RSA) Contact details: RW James Building (Upper Campus), Room 539 phone: +27 21 650 2392 / fax: +27 21 650 3342 pwoudt at ast.uct.ac.za (preferred) Patrick.Woudt at uct.ac.za (alternative)

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	Research Interests:	Cataclysmic Variable Stars Rapid Oscillations in CVs, Non-radial pulsations in accreting white dwarfs, Ultracompact binaries, V445 Puppis
		The Great Attractor, Superclusters and Large Scale Structures The Norma Cluster and the Great Attractor, Fundamental Plane analysis of the Norma Cluster, Optical and Near-Infrared luminosity Function of the Norma cluster
		The Zone of Avoidance Optical and Near-Infrared View of the Galaxy Distribution behind the Plane of the Milky Way

	Planned SALT projects:	Cataclysmic Variable Stars
		• High time-resolution study of ultracompact mass-transferring binaries
		• Pulsating white dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variable stars
		• Dwarf Nova Oscillations in Cataclysmic Variable stars
		• Cataclysmic Variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds
		Galaxy clusters/superclusters • Probing Galaxy Evolution in Dense Environments: A Study of Superclusters at Intermediate Redshifts with SALT and KAT

	Teaching:	Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (AST2002S) Second year undergraduate course in Astrophysics
		General Astrophysics I NASSP BSc Honours module

	Postgraduate student (co-)supervision: Presently	Mr. Ihab Riad (PhD) An Infrared Survey of Galaxies in the Great Attractor Region Other co-supervisors: Prof. R.C. Kraan-Korteweg (UCT)
		Mr. Paul Kotze (PhD) The Evolution and Transformation of Galaxies in Superclusters at Intermediate Redshift Other co-supervisors: Prof. R.C. Kraan-Korteweg (UCT), Dr. P. Vaisanen (SAAO)
		Ms. Mellony Spark (PhD) New Telescope Technologies to Study the Accretion Disc Radii in Cataclysmic Variables Other co-supervisors: Dr. D. O'Donoghue (SAAO)

	Graduated students:	Cataclysmic Variables	Large Scale Structures / ZoA
		Mr. Ewald Zietsman (MSc, 2008) (thesis, pdf)	Dr. Michelle Cluver (PhD, 2009)
		Dr. Nceba Mhlahlo (PhD, 2007)	Ms. Wendy Williams (BSc Hons, 2008) (thesis, pdf)
		Dr. Retha Pretorius (MSc w/dist., 2004)	Ms. Kosma von Maltitz (BSc Hons, 2008) (thesis, pdf)
		Ms. Mellony Spark (BSc Hons, 2004)	Mr. James Tagg (MSc, 2008) (thesis, pdf)
		Ms. Denise Dale (BSc Hons, 2003)	Ms. Ros Skelton (MSc w/dist., 2007) (thesis, pdf)
		Mr. Thapelo Tshenye (BSc Hons, 2003)	Mr. Paul Kotze (MSc, 2007)
		Ms. Michelle Wiehahn (BSc Hons, 2002) (thesis, pdf)	Mr. Karsten Markus (MSc, 2006) (thesis, pdf)
		Dr. Vanessa McBride (BSc Hons, 2001)	Ms. Michelle Cluver (MSc, 2005)
			Mr. James Tagg (BSc Hons, 2005)
		Other
		Mr. Thapelo Tshenye (MSc, 2007)

The labour of the astronomer in the present state of his science is much like that of one who should examine, grain by grain, the sands of the sea in the certainty that among them numerous grains must exist of extraordinary value. Sir John Herschel in ``Mem. Roy. Astr. Soc. 2, page 472'', 1826.