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China - 2009 / 2010 University of Hong Kong Fellowships and Studentships for MPhil and PhD Studies

THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG GRADUATE SCHOOL

Fellowships & Studentships for MPhil and PhD Studies at The University of Hong Kong 2009-2010

East Meets West
Founded in 1911, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) is the longest established English speaking university in Hong Kong. It has gained the reputation as a world-class comprehensive research university with excellent research record and facilities. To further promote an international and multicultural campus, we encourage students from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds to join our MPhil and PhD programmes.

Highlights

• A uniquely positioned study centre of East and West
• A cultural mix of MPhil and PhD students from all over the world
• High quality teachers and students
• Leading-edge research in over 120 academic departments and research centres
• High-quality research outputs
• Top-class libraries, computer facilities, and state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment

University Postgraduate Fellowships
Fellowships of HK$70,000 (US$8,970) plus not less than HK$157,200 (US$20,150) per year for selected full-time PhD candidates with excellent academic record

Continue Reading November 19th, 2008

Israel - Hebrew University of Jerusalem Postdoctoral Position in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Prof. Baruch Meerson (http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/meerson/) expects to have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics beginning on October 1 2009. The postdoc will investigate, analytically and numerically, large fluctuations in stochastic population dynamics models. A successful candidate will be submitted for a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Hebrew University.

Information about the Lady Davis Fellowships is available at http://ldft.huji.ac.il/upload/info/infoHU.html.

Continue Reading November 18th, 2008

Malaysia - University Malaysia Perlis Master and PhD Scholarships in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Master and PhD Scholarships in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia

We are a research team from University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), recently our group has obtained research funding from Malaysia Government, MOSTI (Ministry of Science & Technology). We would like to recruit those students with following requirements to be a part of our research team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree / MSc / MEng in Computer Programming / Communication / Electrical Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science.
• Experience in software development using C & C++ under Windows for embedded system/platforms.
• Strong programming, trouble-shooting, analytical, creativeness/innovativeness and problem-solving skills is required.
• Willing to work in a team environment with minimal supervision/guidance and self-disciplined/motivated to produce high quality network software.
• Good oral and written communication skills in English.
• Applicants must be willing to work in Perlis, Malaysia.
• Applicants can be Malaysian citizens or expatriates/foreigners.
• Fresh graduates with excellent grades are encouraged to apply.

Continue Reading November 7th, 2008

Asia - 2009 NUS Asian Graduate Student Fellowships

The Asia Research Institute of NUS invites applications from citizens of Asian countries enrolled for a fulltime advanced degree at a university in an Asian country (except Singapore) for consideration for the award of Asian Graduate Student Fellowships. These fellowships are offered to current graduate students doing their Master’s or PhD degrees and working in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Southeast Asian topics, and will allow the recipients to be based at NUS for an ‘in residence fellowship’ for a period of three months. The aim of the fellowship is to enable scholars to make full use of the wide range of resources held in the libraries of NUS and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Scholars will be expected to commence on 4 May 2009, and to make a presentation on their work at the Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies at the end of July 2009.

Successful candidates can expect the following benefits:

• A monthly allowance of SGD$1,750 (inclusive of housing allowance).
• A one time round trip travel subsidy by the most economical and direct route on a reimbursement basis upon being accepted for the fellowship.
• Access to library and computer resources on campus.

Applicants are invited to e-mail/facsimile/mail their curriculum vitae, a 2-page outline of their research proposal in English (this may be accompanied by a longer statement in a Southeast Asian language) to the address below by 15 November 2008. Arrangements should also be made by which at least two letters of reference, one of which is from your principal supervisor, are sent confidentially to the same address by the same deadline.

Continue Reading November 6th, 2008

Chile - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Postdoc Research Associate in Cognitive or Educational Needs of Talented Children

The Center for the Study and Development of Academic Talents (PENTA-UC) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate.

The successful candidate must hold a completed PhD (between December 2004 and September 2008) and is expected to show evidence of research excellence in the field of education. Good management of written and spoken Spanish is preferable but not compulsory.

Under the broad direction and academic oversight of the Center’s Director, the successful candidate will develop his/her own research agenda in the area of gifted education. In particular, research should be conducted in one of the following sub-fields: cognitive or educational needs of talented children.

The candidate should also collaborate with the Center’s ongoing research projects and may have other responsibilities associated with the broader mission of the Center. Such duties could include participation in conferences and seminars, preparation of grant proposals, creation of research reports and working papers for publication on the Center’s web site, supervision of student research assistants, and teaching.

Continue Reading October 26th, 2008

New Zealand - Victoria University of Wellington PhD Scholarship in Genetic Programming for Data Mining Tasks

PhD Scholarship in Genetic Programming for Data Mining Tasks
Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Computing research group

Background
The Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Computing research group at Victoria University of Wellington was recently awarded a large research grant in Genetic Programming (GP) for data mining tasks by the Marsden Fund of New Zealand (similar to the National Science Foundation in USA). We are looking for a good PhD student in this field. The grant will provide full funding for the student to cover the tuition fees, living allowance, and travel cost.

The Project
Data mining tasks arise in a wide variety of practical situations, ranging from classification to regression, clustering, and optimisation tasks. Since the 1990s, genetic programming (GP) has become a promising approach to building reliable data mining models quickly and automatically. GP uses ideas analogous to biological evolution to search the space of possible models to evolve a good solution for a particular task. GP has been applied to many data mining tasks and achieved some success. However, there are still limitations in program structures, representations, genetic operators, search algorithms and theoretical foundations in GP that restrict GP for difficult data mining tasks.

Continue Reading October 23rd, 2008

New Zealand - Victoria University of Wellington PhD Position on on Foundation of XML Databases

PhD research position on Foundations of XML Databases at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Stipend: 25,000 NZD per year plus fees

Duration: available for 3 years, commencing 01 March 2009 (or earlier)

The PhD is part of a project supported by the Marsden fund council from Government funding, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. We invite applications from excellent domestic or international candidates who have a Master’s degree in mathematics or computer science (or equivalent), and an interest in applying methods from logic, discrete math and complexity theory to database research.

How to apply: an application that includes an explanation of the candidates interest in the position and background, a full CV, an academic transcript and a confirmation of the prerequisite qualification, a two-page summary of the Master’s thesis, and the name and contact details of at least one referee, should be sent to sebastian.link@vuw.ac.nz by 15 November 2009. Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Continue Reading October 23rd, 2008

New Zealand - University of Wellington PhD Studentship in Programming Languages

Unification of Immutability and Ownership
I am actively looking for a PhD student in programming languages (ownership types and immutability). I have full funding available to cover fees, living, and travel. Please email me for more information if you have a Masters or Honours degree and a good background in programming languages and/or type systems! Applications from both domestic and international students invited.

The Project
Object-oriented programs at run-time consist of objects - small software components that are created, changed, and destroyed as the program runs. The uncontrolled ability of objects to change other objects is well known to result in many errors in large systems.

Immutability - an ability to prevent changes to objects - is a mechanism that could be used to provide such control. While immutability controls whether an object can be changed, it is not enough: we need to be able to also control which objects can perform the changes.

Continue Reading October 21st, 2008

Indonesia - 2009 Sumitro Research Fellowship Grants

SUMITRO FELLOWS
2009 GRANT APPLICATIONS

The United States Indonesia Society (USINDO) invites applications for its two 2009 travel/study grants for post-doctoral scholars, Ph.D. candidates, senior academics, and otherwise professionally qualified candidates to engage in field research in Indonesia on an economic or political-economic topic. One grant is available to United States citizens and permanent residents in the United States with a specific project relating to the political economy of Indonesia. The Indonesian Sumitro Fellowship is open to an Indonesian citizen with a project related to the Indonesia-United States bilateral relationship. Previous travel to, and experience in, Indonesia or the United States (for Indonesian Sumitro applicants) is desirable but not necessarily a requirement. The deadline for the 2009 Sumitro Fellows Applications is Friday, October 31, 2008.

The Sumitro Fellows program honors Dr. Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, Indonesia’s senior economist and advisor to USINDO, who passed away in 2001. An architect of Indonesia’s modern economy, Professor Sumitro headed the faculty of economics at the University of Indonesia, and was later a minister of trade and minister of state for research.

Professor Sumitro was also the driving force behind a 1950’s program of the Ford Foundation which sent Indonesian economists to U.S. academic institutions for advanced degrees. Many attended the University of California at Berkeley and the group came to be known as the “Berkeley Mafia” when its members assumed many key cabinet posts in subsequent decades.

The Sumitro Fellows grants for the 2009 application cycle are $10 000 each.

Continue Reading October 9th, 2008

Thailand - AIT Post Doctoral Opportunities in Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Post Doctoral Opportunities on Climate Change Research for Sustainable Development

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) invites applications for postdoctoral fellows or research associates in their thematic research area of Climate Change and Sustainable Development.

AIT is in the process of consolidating, strengthening and expanding research in response to climate change in the areas of technology, policy and planning, managerial and institutional arrangements. This opportunity will be in climate change science, mitigation of green house emissions, vulnerability aspects, adaptation measures to climate change, and more. In this effort, AIT plans to continue its work in an interdisciplinary manner, cutting across research that explores:

• How science influences policy, economic planning for governance and enabling mechanisms;
• Application of energy efficient and renewable energy technologies, linking rational energy use to adaption/impact of climate change vulnerability in a geographic context;
• Building resilience in urban, rural and coastal communities and social groups;
• Research on increasing carbon sequestering, including appropriate agricultural practices through selection and management of crops and vegetation, assessment of GHG emission in rice-based farming systems;
• Efficient technologies for treating waste which mitigates GHG emissions and facilitates energy recovery;
• Efficient use of water resources, water hydrology, land use;
• Biofuel and food security challenges;
• Linkages to Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s);
• Planning for new cities and other infrastructure development, prevention of further investments on unsuitable locations and vulnerability mapping using GIS;
• Use of sensors and nanotechnology-based devices for detecting of atmospheric changes;
• Business opportunities as a result of climate change adaptation and mitigation, etc.

Continue Reading October 8th, 2008