IRCSET’s Embark Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme is designed for either Masters or Doctorate level researchers in the sciences, engineering or technology. 2008 Programme [First Call] NOW OPEN The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology invites applications for funding from intending postgraduate researchers under the Embark Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme (2008). This first call in the 2008 programme will fund up to 165 Masters or Doctorate level researchers in the sciences, engineering and technology. The scheme is open to candidates worldwide with a number of scholarships also being available to exceptional candidates from non EU member states. A number of additional scholarships will be jointly funded by industry as part of IRCSET Enterprise Partnership Scheme (see below for details). This scheme fosters mutually beneficial collaboration between the academic and commercial research sectors. The Closing Date for all applications will be 5pm,

The European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) offers two one-year programs in the humanities, one for undergraduates, one for recent graduates. The academic year runs for nine months from early October to late June and is divided into three ten-week terms: Autumn, Winter and Spring. A core curriculum in philosophy, history, literature, political theory and the visual arts is team-taught by faculty with background in these disciplines. The core course uses a lecture/seminar/tutorial format, and students learn through discussion in small groups, writing assignments and one-to-one tutorials. The core course begins with the classic texts of ancient Greece and has a loosely chronological structure through the three terms, with particular focus on selected historical periods. Key authors who feature in the course include Aristotle, Dante, Descartes, Dostoyevsky, Homer, Hume, Kafka, Kant, Kierkegaard, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Pascal, Plato and Shakespeare. Elective courses in a range

Doctoral positions starting October 2008 Munich Graduate School of Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Germany) UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH MUNICH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Graduate Program Research Training Group “Markets, Institutions, and the Scope of Government” Department of Economics The Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE) offers a distinguished three-year Ph.D. program in Economics to outstanding young graduates. We offer: 10 DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS The program provides advanced training for in-depth research into global market integration, its consequences for institutional change, and its impact on the role of governments in the organization of economic activity. These themes are widely conceived and allow for applications in any field of economics. We offer a wide range of Ph.D. courses, all taught in English. The German Research Foundation (DFG) supports excellent doctoral students with a three-year scholarship in our Research Training Group. QUALIFICATIONS:

The POSCO Asia Fellowship is a scholarship program designed to invite promising Asian graduate students to the Master’s Program at the Graduate School of International Studies(GSIS), Seoul National University(SNU), supporting their studies at one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in Korea. The fellowship, offered by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation, covers full tuitions for up to 4 semesters at GSIS-SNU and monthly living stipends for two years in Korea. A total of 9 fellowships for this year have been awarded to students from Asia. The POSCO Asia Fellowship Foundation has continued to expand the scope of its social contributions and hopes to provide additional Asian countries with more scholarships in the future. For the Master’s program at GSIS SNU AY 2008, Asian universities are invited to recommend students to the Fellowship. Fellowships are provided to promote mutual understanding between Asian countries and Korea, and to strengthen professional abilities of Asia

Uses of the fast wavelet transform to study some applications of carbon nanotubes and light diffusion by dust grains Location: institut UTINAM (UMR CNRS 6213) Besançon, France Length: 9 months, starting as soon as possible considering the time needed by the person retained to get all the administrative papers necessary to work in France. Financial conditions: The credits obtained allow us to warrant a gross salary of 1839 € per month, which in reality means 1508 € per month transferred on the bank account. Requested profile: The applicant should preferentially have with experience in numerical analysis concerning implementation of the fast wavelet transform in fortran. Experience of parallelization and/or knowledge of Green’s function techniques and/or knowledge of the scattering matrix formalism in optics would be a plus, but are not required. In any case, the person retained must have completed his/her PHD since less than 2 years and NOT be of French nationality! Therefore, the app

Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Brisbane, Australia / University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Primary supervisor: Dr Stuart Macgregor Applications: open until position filled. To apply, send CV to stuart.macgregor[ at ]qimr.edu.au Stipend: Fully funded stipend available for ‘home’ applicant (AUS$20K per annum tax free, rising to AUS$25K subject to satisfactory progress). ‘home’ applicant means Australian/New Zealand citizens/permanent residents. International students are still eligible for AUS$20K stipend but may need to pay additional tuition fees – please contact stuart.macgregor@qimr.edu.au for further details. Reasonable relocation expenses available. Funding is tenable for 3 years. Title: Statistical and computational methods for gene mapping Description: The project will focus on statistical and computational methods for locating disease susceptibility genes. This will be based mainly on genome wide association approaches with a particular emphasis on