Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS), University of Cologne (Germany) Doctoral Program – funded by the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia - Scholarships available The Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo-Faculty) of the University of Cologne is the largest and best reputed faculty of its type in Germany. The Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences (CGS) of the WiSo-Faculty offers a three-year doctoral program to outstanding students holding a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or German Diploma or equivalent) in Management, Economics and Social Sciences or related disciplines. The course program will start in October 2008. During the first year, students with a Master’s degree will take part in courses on multidisciplinary methods and theories and subject-specific courses. During the second and third year, students mainly conduct research and work on their thesis. Students are encouraged t

The Colour and Texture Group of the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain) is offering a 3 years PhD studentship. The work will be within the general framework of Computational Colour Vision and will involve perceptual experiments with human subjects. The Colour and Texture Group offers a well funded, amicable and very creative environment not far from Barcelona city in Spain. Its main work is related to computational colour and texture representations. We focus on the basis of colour and texture perception in order to automatise the task of labelling the colours and the textures within an image (e.g. automatic image annotation, colour assessment of textured surfaces, illuminant estimation, etc). The CVC is located inside the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona campus in Bellaterra (beautiful land), some 15 Km (and a 30 min train ride) away from Barcelona city centre. The campus provides a diverse and stimulating scientific environment while th