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...

Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Psychology ROYAL HOLLOWAY University of London Salary is in the range £24,466 to £26,537 inclusive of London Allowance. A 23 month, full-time postdoctoral research position is available to investigate the neural basis of learning in the human brain using functional MRI. The project will study the dynamic changes in activity that accompany the acquisition of cognitive and motor skills, and will focus on information processing in the prefrontal cortex, the cortical motor system and interconnected areas of the cerebellum (see Ramnani (2006), Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7(7):511-522). The project is funded by a BBSRC grant to Dr. Narender Ramnani. Facilities include an on-site, research-dedicated 3T Siemens Trio MRI scanner hosted by the Psychology Department at Royal Holloway (Surrey, 35 minutes to central London). Candidates should hold (or should expect to be awarded) a PhD in the behavioural or cognitive neuroscien...

The Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) 1458 “Notational Iconicity. On the Materiality, Perceptibilty and Operativity of Writing” at Freie Universitaet Berlin, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), is offering from 1st October 2008 12 Ph.D studentships (full-time) and 3 postdoctoral fellowships for a duration of 2 years (the Ph.D studentships are extendable for another year). Closing date for applications: 26th April 2008. The research training group is dedicated to investigating script/writing as a key subject in the humanities. Its aim is to contribute to a change of perspective from a phonographic, language-centred concept of writing to an iconographic, language-neutral concept of writing. The founding hypothesis is that both alphabetic and non-alphabetic scripts are hybrid forms that combine discursive and iconic components and that writing is therefore more than simply a medium used to record spoken language. The research training group investigates systematica...

Department: TSSG (Telecommunications Software & Systems Group) Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland Minimum Qualification Required: * Possess a Master degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. * Have strong programming skills of Java and experience of implementing numerical algorithms with Java * Have a good understanding or some experience in the following areas: database, statistics, machine learning, or data mining. * With good written and spoken English, and ideally some existing publications Major Duties: * Develop the novel algorithms and scalable software systems for Predictive Analytics and Web services based on Semantic Web mining. * Study novel techniques of distributed data mining. Applications should include: * a curriculum vitae with a list of publications, * a cover letter and a statement of research interests, * the names and e-mail addresses of two references. Applications should be sent by e-mail with ...

Specified Use The Brooks World Poverty Institute ( BWPI ) in collaboration with the Institute for Development Policy & Management ( IDPM ) is offering the bursary for full time study on the new MSc in Poverty & Development. This new programme forms part of the established International Development pathway programme within IDPM. Tenable period The bursary is for the 2008-09 Academic year. Number available: 5 Academic requirements * Second Class Honours, Upper Division or above, or overseaas equivalent. Please contact the School’s Recruitment & Admissions office for equivalency information. * Applicants whose first langauge is a language other than English must have 7.0 IELTS or equivalent from another recognised English Language test e.g. (TOEFL) This funding is available to all nationalities. Application procedure All applicants who recieve an offer are automatically considered for the bursary. Closing date: 30 Jun 2008 Applications received after the 30th June 200...

Project Title: Computational Nanomechanics of Nanocomposites Supervisor: Professor Michael McCarthy, Chair of Aeronautical Engineering ( http://www.ul.ie/~engineer/moredetails.php?sku=127 ) Location: Material and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland ( http://www.ul.ie/mssi/ ) In Collaboration with: Professor William A. Curtin, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA ( http://www.engin.brown.edu/people/Faculty/facultypage.php?id=1106969990 ) Funding Duration: Funding is provided for up to four years from Autumn 2008 (subject to satisfactory progress). Earlier completion feasible. Funded by: The Higher Education Authority of Ireland, through the PRTLI funded Project: Nanoscience and Nano-scale technologies for Ireland Candidates with an engineering, physics, materials science or applied mathematics background are being sought for a four-year Ph.D. scholarship in Computational Nanomechanics of Nanocomposites, beginning Autumn 2008. The outstanding mechanical properties o...

The discipline of Geogrpahy at the University of Manchester is pleased to announce that it will be offering a number of bursarys for International fee paying students. The value of the bursary is £2,000, which is automatically deducted from the student’s fee at enrolment. Bursaries are for study on Full time Postgraduate Taught Masters within the discipline of Geography, as detailed below: * MA Human Geography * MSc Environmental Governance * MSc Environmental Monitoring, Modelling & Reconstruction * MSc Geographical Information Science Academic requirements * Second Class Honours, Upper Division or above, or overseaas equivalent. Please contact the School’s Recruitment & Admissions office for equivalency information. * Applicants whose first langauge is a language other than English must have 7.0 IELTS or equivalent from another recognised English Language test e.g. (TOEFL) This funding is available to international students. Application procedure All a...

A postdoc position in the field of first-principles computer simulations of materials at high pressure is available in the group of Prof. Burkhard Militzer at UC Berkeley. The work focuses on the application of condensed matter simulation techniques to planetary science problems in order to improve our understanding of the interior of planets. Physicists with a background in computational methods are encouraged to apply. The project has two parts. Quantum Monte Carlo calculations are applied to minerals in the deep Earth and density functional based methods are used to study fluids at high pressure including hydrogen-helium mixtures in giant planets.The position will be hosted at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science but the project proceeds in collaboration with physics and astronomy. Application Candidates should have experience in first-principles methods and send their applications by email to militzer@berkeley.edu using PDF format and postdoc search in the subject line. Al...