PhD Scholarship in Civil Engineering-Univ. of Strathclyde-UK

More information from Dr Minna Karstunen (email:
minna.karstunen@strath.ac.uk,
Tel. +44 141 5483252)

*Requirements:*
A good undergraduate degree in civil engineering, geotechnical engineering or a related topic. An MSc degree in Geotechnical Engineering and/or industrial experience would be an advantage.

*Start date October 2006. *

The studentship will consist of a tax-free scholarship of £12,500 per annum and the tuition fees at home/EU student level for three years. The fellowship is funded by the Faculty of Engineering.

*Topic of research:*
The PhD project deals with finite element modelling of embankments on soft soils, considering various foundation methods, such as preloading, vertical drains and stone columns/lime-cement columns. The numerical simulations will
be done by 2D and 3D version of PLAXIS, using recently developed advanced soil models that account for plastic strain induced anisotropy, bonding and destructuration and this may involve constitutive model development and numerical implementation.

PhD Scholarship, Stockholm University-Sweden

The deadline for applications is the 1st of August

There is a 4 year PhD Scholarship entitled "Fundamentals of subgrain nucleation, growth and interaction: Linking numerical modelling and in-situ experiments" associated with a European Science Foundation EUROCORES project available at Stockholm University.

For further information please download this information sheet:
http://www.lmtg.obs-mip.fr/user/mjessell/PhD_stockholm.pdf

Mark Jessell
IRD LMTG UMR 5563
14 avenue Edouard Belin
31400 TOULOUSE
Tel: +33 (0)5 61 33 26 47
www.lmtg.obs-mip.fr/user/mjessell (home)
www.tectask.org (IUGS Tectask)
www.lmtg.obs-mip.fr/grc2006 (GRC Conference on Rock
Deformation)
www.materialsknowledge.org (Marie Curie Summer Schools)

PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SPEECH TECHNOLOGY, University of Edinburgh, UK

Application deadlines for entry in September 2006:

January 31, 2006 for overseas students
March 31, 2006 for UK and EU students

Applications received after these deadlines may be considered, but
this cannot be guaranteed.

For more information on CSTR, ICCS, and HCRC, please visit:

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/

The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), the Institute of
Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), and the Human
Communication Research Centre (HCRC) in Edinburgh invite applications
for three-year PhD studentships starting in September 2006.

CSTR and ICCS combine to form the world's largest concentration of
researchers studying the theoretical, computational, and cognitive
aspects of language and speech. HCRC provides an interdisciplinary
research environment that includes staff from the School of
Informatics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language
Sciences pursuing research into the communication among humans and
between humans and machines, using text, speech, and graphics. All
three Institutes also have a strong track record in applied and
industry-sponsored research.

PhD students will work on topics drawn from the following areas
(potential supervisors are listed in brackets):

o Speech technology (Rob Clark, Simon King, Steve Renals, Hiroshi
Shimodaira): conversational agents, multimodal interaction, prosody
and information structure, speech recognition, speech synthesis

o Cognitive science (Jean Carletta, Frank Keller, John Lee, Jon
Oberlander, Helen Pain, Keith Stenning): computational
psycholinguistics, educational technology, graphical communication,
human reasoning

o Computational linguistics (Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Philipp Koehn,
Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides, Oliver Lemon, Colin Matheson,
Johanna Moore, Miles Osborne, Mark Steedman, Henry Thompson, Richard
Tobin, Bonnie Webber): annotation and markup, biomedical NLP,
computational semantics, discourse and dialogue, information
extraction, machine translation, generation, parsing, question
answering, statistical NLP

Approximately 12 studentships from a variety of sources are available
to cover maintenance at the standard research council rate of
approximately GBP 12.000 per year and tuition fees at the home/EU or
overseas rate.

Additionally 5 Marie Curie Fellowships for early stage researchers
working towards a PhD in the area of speech science and technology are
available. For more details see http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/edsst/.

Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in
computational linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science,
computer science, or a related discipline.

For further information please contact Dr. Hiroshi Shimodaira
(hshimoda@inf.ed.ac.uk). Application forms and details on how to apply
are available from:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html

Study and Scholarships at The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environtment-Thailand

The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE) is an autonomous graduate school instituted under the jurisdiction of the Council of the King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi . It was established in 1998 for the purpose of implementing the Postgraduate Education and Research in Science and Technology Development Project of the Commission on Higher Education (CHE), which aims to strength postgraduate education and research as a means of building a strong foundation for research and development in science and technology, and to help support Thailand's economic competitiveness. The School receives funding from the Thai government through the CHE - ADB Higher Education Development Project and the Energy Conservation Promotion Fund of the Ministry of Energy.The School operates as a consortium involving

• King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, With
• King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok,
• Chiang Mai University,
• Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology at Thammasart University,
• Prince of Songkhla University

There are numerous scholarships for students with prominent records of performance

Scholarships are classified into 4 types, as follows.

1. Full scholarship, which covers tuition fee, school fees, and living expenses.
2. School fees and tuition fees only.
3. Tuition fees or school fees only.
4. Part of tuition or school fees.

One of the aims of JGSEE is to produce high quality research work. To this end funds are made available to all students as thesis expense staring from the first semester that the students enroll for their thesis study.

More info at: www.jgsee.kmutt.ac.th

PhD positions in Optics and Photonics-ICFO, Spain

The deadline for the submission of applications for the present call is: 31st of August, 2006.

Please, beware that ICFO established three periods of applications for pre-doctoral studies positions per year. The next submission deadline will be the 31st of December, 2006.

Applicants will be notified of the results of the first evaluation stage at ICFO by the 5th of October, 2006.

The Institut of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) is a center based in Castelldefels (Barcelona) / Spain, devoted to the research and education of the optical and photonic sciences, at the highest international level.

ICFO, in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), is offering predoctoral fellowships to well-qualified graduate students who wish to obtain a doctoral degree in any of the photonics-related research fields. Ph.D. students at ICFO benefit from the extensive course offerings of local universities and focused instruction by ICFO professors.Research is carried out at ICFO.

The ICFO-UPC PhD Fellowship Program welcomes applications from individuals with backgrounds in any scientific disciplines related to optics and photonics. Persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Eligibility

No restrictions of citizenship apply to the ICFO-UPC Fellowships.

Candidates must hold an internationally-recognized Bachelor or Master-equivalent degree of a minimum of officially 4 years studying period.

The degree must be in a field of science and engineering related to optics and photonics.

Suitable backgrounds include optics, physics, mathematics, electronics and telecommunications engineering.

Conditions of fellowships

The fellowships are offered for periods of one year, renewable for a total of four years.

The renovation of the fellowship is conditional on satisfactory performance in research and teaching activities.

Selection procedure

Selection of ICFO-UPC predoctoral fellows is based on merit and potential, measured in terms of the academic record and personal achievements. Proactivity, participation in community activities, and capacity for team-work are also taken into account.

Please note that the selection procedure employed at ICFO, as well as the description of the documentation to be submitted for application, can be found more detailed at http://www.icfo.es/index.php?section=job_openings0⟨=english.

Usually, to apply for a predoctoral position with ICFO, suitable candidates are requested to submit:

-The fulfilled application form (attached to the call at our homepage)
-A presentation letter with declaration of research interests,
-A Curriculum Vitae, including a full address, a contact phone number and e-mail address and a copy of the passport,
-A scanned copy of your University academic transcripts in English or Spanish,
-A scanned copy of the degree, if available at the time of application,
-The contact e-mail of three potential referees.

Applications should be submitted by e-mail to: icfojobs@icfo.es

E-mail submissions must be coded in DOC, PS, or PDF formats and must include the subject line General PhD.

Applications can also be submitted by post to:

PhD Screening Committee
ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Mediterranean Technology Park
Av. Canal Olímpic, s/n
08860 - Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain