The University of Westminster is currently accepting applications for the Colin Matheson Scholarship. This scholarship are open to international students of developing countries who will be undertaking master degree at the university. The scholarship covers tuition fees, accommodation, living expenses and travel cost to London. The closing date of application is 3 May 2016. See the details at: http://scholarshipdesk.com/colin-matheson-scholarahip-for-master-degree-at-the-university-of-westminster-uk/

Dear students, The applications for MASDAR Institute Scholarships are now accepted. Those scholarships available for worldwide students undertaking postgraduate program (Master and PhD degree) majoring in science, engineering and information technology. This is a fully funded award. All of the relevant expenses will be covered. The application deadline is 31 May 2016. See the details at: http://scholarshipdesk.com/fully-funded-international-scholarships-of-masdar-institute/

Berikut informasi penerimaan mahasiswa baru Program PascaSarjana di
Tokyo Institute of Technology untuk keberangkatan bulan September 2016

Application Period: August 3, 2015 - November 30, 2015.

Informasi selengkapnya
http://www.titech.ac.jp/english/graduate_school/international/graduate_program_a/index.html

Alokasi beasiswa MEXT untuk mahasiswa international 2015
http://www.titech.ac.jp/english/graduate_school/international/graduate_program_a/pdf/mext2015.pdf

Salam,

Muhammad Kunta Biddinika
Twitter: @katakatakunta

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Human Neuroscience and Visual Cognition & ASTECCA Laboratories, Department of Psychology, Wright State University

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leading role in our research on the neurocognitive correlates of attentional control and lapses of attention in semi-structured ecological settings. The goal of this project is to rigorously characterize the relationship between laboratory measures of attentional control and failures of attention in realistic task contexts. We specifically aim to combine cognitive behavioral studies, ERP experiments, and computational modeling to test the extent to which laboratory measures can predict individual differences in susceptibility to attentional failures. We will investigate how these combined measures can be used to identify which individuals are most likely to benefit from a cognitive training paradigm aimed at enhancing attentional control. The postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for designing the studies, programming the experimental paradigms, recruiting participants, and collecting the data. In addition, the fellow will be responsible for data analysis and reporting the research findings in peer-reviewed journals.  

The position is fully funded for three years. The successful candidate will hold a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or any other related discipline by the start date of the position. Experience in computer programming, especially with Matlab, and familiarity with fMRI or EEG research are required. Experience in computational cognitive modeling will be considered a strong advantage.

The Department of Psychology is housed in the College of Science and Mathematics, offers a Ph.D. in Human Factors and Industrial/ Organizational Psychology, and has 3 undergraduate concentration areas: (1) Cognition and Perception, (2) Industrial/ Organizational, and (3) Behavioral Neuroscience. Wright State University was recently ranked among the “Best in the Midwest” universities by The Princeton Review, listed among 260 Best National Universities in the annual “America’s Best Colleges” rankings by U.S. News and World Report, and ranked fourth nationally among universities with limited numbers of doctoral programs in the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. Wright State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

For more information on this position contact Assaf Harel, Ph.D. at assaf.harel@wright.edu or Ion Juvina, Ph.D. at ion.juvina@wright.edu. Applicants should visit the following link to upload CV and statement of research:  <http://jobs.wright.edu/postings/9380>. In addition, please have three letters of reference sent directly to Ion Juvina, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, 313G Fawcett Hall, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435. 

Review of complete applications will begin August 8, 2015, and continue until the position is filled. All new hires must go through a criminal background check before they can be hired

The Neural Control of Movement Laboratory (NCM) in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) of ETH Zurich has an opening for a fully funded

PhD position in small animal neuromodulation and neuroimaging

The goal of this project will be to gain better understanding of the neural basis of autistic behavior. The applicant will develop and apply new technologies for neuromodulation and neuroimaging in animal models for Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Planned studies will utilize MR imaging, optogenetic, pharmacogenetic, molecular and behavioral methods to explore the neural circuitry linking brain stimulation, functional connectivity and behavior.

ETH has access to excellent technical facilities including small-animals 7T and 9.4T MR scanners and laboratories for behavioral testing and optogenetics.
Employment is expected to begin in the second half of 2015 and international applicants are welcome.

A successful applicant will have, or is expected to soon receive a Master’s degree in one of the following disciplines: Neuroscience, Biology, Biomedical Engineering or Health Sciences and Technology. Proficiency in English and the ability to communicate with collaborators across a range of disciplines will be required. Candidate must be highly motivated to perform innovative large-scale studies and willing to work with small animals. Prior experience with optogenetic and/or image analysis is preferred but not mandatory. Above all, candidates should be enthusiastic with a strong willingness to learn new skills.

For further information please contact Prof. Nicole Wenderoth at nicole.wenderoth@hest.ethz.ch
(no applications) and visit our website www.ncm.hest.ethz.ch.

apply here : https://pub.refline.ch/845721/3863/++publications++/1/index.html

We are looking forward to receive your online application by May 1, 2015. It should include a CV (including publication list), a statement of interest and the names and email addresses of two potential referees. Please send it to: ETH Zurich, Ms. Nadja Lang, Human Resources, CH-8092 Zurich.

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Posted by: Tri Kurniawan Wijaya <trikurniawanwijaya@yahoo.com>

The Neural Control of Movement Laboratory (NCM) in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) of ETH Zurich has an opening for a fully funded

PhD position in Human System’s Neuroscience

The goal of this project will be to gain better understanding of the neural basis of movement observation (or “motor resonance”) in humans. The applicant will primarily use eye tracking, brain stimulation (TMS) and brain imaging techniques (EEG, fMRI). 

ETH offers an exciting, multidisciplinary research environment with a vibrant neuroscience community. Furthermore, there is access to excellent technical facilities including a research-dedicated 3T MR scanner and laboratories for electroencephalography (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and transcranial direct current stimulations (tDCS).
Employment is expected to begin in the second half of 2015 and international applicants are welcome.

A successful applicant will have, or is expected to soon receive a Master’s degree in one of the following disciplines: Neuroscience, Psychology, Biology, Biomedical Engineering or Health Sciences and Technology. Proficiency in English and the ability to communicate with collaborators across a range of disciplines will be required. Prior experience in signal processing and data analysis in MATLAB or similar high-level language is also necessary. Above all, candidates should be enthusiastic with a strong willingness to learn new skills.

For further information please contact Prof. Nicole Wenderoth at nicole.wenderoth@hest.ethz.ch (no applications) and visit our website www.ncm.hest.ethz.ch.

apply here: https://pub.refline.ch/845721/3862/++publications++/1/index.html

 

We are looking forward to receive your online application by May 1, 2015. It should include a CV (including publication list), a statement of interest and the names and email addresses of two potential referees. Please send it to: ETH Zurich, Ms. Nadja Lang, Human Resources, CH-8092 Zurich.

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Posted by: Tri Kurniawan Wijaya <trikurniawanwijaya@yahoo.com>

The Neural Control of Movement, Rehabilitation Engineering, and Mobile Health Systems Laboratories in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) of ETH Zurich have an opening for a fully funded

PhD position in Mobile Rehabilitation Technology

The goal of this collaborative project will be to develop mobile rehabilitation technology for translation into clinical and home settings. The applicant will work on medical devices that interface with smartphones to communicate remotely with a clinician or experimenter. The work will make an important contribution to providing technology access and improving rehabilitation outcomes for neurological patients with movement disorders.

The host laboratories have a broad range of expertise in hardware and software development in the context of medical applications, in fundamental movement neuroscience research and in clinical trials.
Employment is expected to begin in the second half of 2015 and international applicants are welcome.

A successful applicant will have, or is expected to soon receive a Master’s degree in a technical discipline (e.g. Engineering/Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent). Skills, both in software (e.g. microcontroller/mobile app programming, signal processing and data analysis in MATLAB or similar high-level language) and hardware (e.g. CAD, circuit and PCB design) are required. Proficiency in English and the ability to communicate with collaborators across a range of disciplines is also necessary. A demonstrated interest in the application of technology in the field of neurorehabilitation will be viewed favorably. Above all, candidates should be enthusiastic with a strong willingness to learn new skills.

For further information please contact Prof. Nicole Wenderoth at nicole.wenderoth@hest.ethz.ch (no applications) and visit our website www.ncm.hest.ethz.ch.

apply here : https://pub.refline.ch/845721/3861/++publications++/1/index.html

We are looking forward to receive your online application by May 1, 2015. It should include a CV (including publication list), a statement of interest and the names and email addresses of two potential referees. Please send it to: ETH Zurich, Ms. Nadja Lang, Human Resources, CH-8092 Zurich.

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 PhD thesis position
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Summary :
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3-years position in Computer Science
Laboratoire Hubert Curien, UMR CNRS 5516, Saint-Etienne, France.
Apply before 7th may 2015 to christophe.gravier@univ-st-etienne.fr
Start your thesis between september and october 2015.


For more information, contact Christophe Gravier <christophe.gravier@univ-st-etienne.fr> or Julien Subercaze <julien.subercaze@univ-st-etienne.fr>




Description :
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On the Web and in social networks, textual similarity search is a problem of the utmost practical interest.
Devising metrics for textual contents (Web pages, tweets, ..) serves the purpose of today Web services â?" search engine, recommender system, online advertising, ... to name a few. 


In this context, one of the popular strategy to overcome scalability issues is Semantic Hashing, which has been proposed in the early 2000 [2, 4]. Semantic hashing aims at embedding the data points from high dimensional spaces of traditional approaches into a Hamming hypercube of size n. In semantic hashing, each data point is associated to a binary code of length n, so that their Hamming distance is similar to the one in the original space. The problem to find how to perform such an embedding provides a hot topic for the computer scientists. Many semantic hashing schemes rely on machine learning: using a corpus, binary classifiers are trained in order to satisfy different optimisation functions [6, 12, 13, 11, 3, 8, 5].


The main issues with what is commonly accepted are the following:
- data dependency : the entire corpus needs to be known in advance â?" or a sufficient portion of it making the approach also subject to cold start.
- concept-insensitive : as these processes relies on keyword feature spaces, two documents semantically similar but making use of different terms are not mapped to close binary codes.
- language-dependant : while some of the most recent works consider hashing textual and multimedia items together, few works focus on multi-lingual corpus [10].


Instead of high dimensional vector spaces, we consider in this thesis other document representation as candidates for hashing. We especially consider graphs as a document representation that can be tuned to be data-independant, concept-sensitive, and language-independant. We aim at exploring further if this representation is more suitable for semantic hashing. This track has been settled in the institute in the last couple of years. Especially, in [9] we demonstrated that a graphical model is a suitable document representation for semantic hashing, as it presents an interesting an massive speed-up for pairwise similarity computation at the cost of a limited loss of semantic similarity with respect to high dimensional models. In [1], we extended our model and we show that an external taxonomy used in the semantic hashing scheme provide concept-sensitivity to our semantic hashing process. The candidates are strongly advised to read these two publications from the team.


In this thesis, we aim at improving this method and evaluate what are the performances and limitations of a semantic hashing scheme based on a graphical representation of documents.
We will put focus on under-studied applications of semantic hashing : multi-lingual semantic hashing and speed up of natural language processing tasks.


Supervisors : Christophe Gravier and Julien Subercaze




Requirements:
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The candidate MUST have :
1. a Master degree in Computer Science,
2. a good mathematical background,
3. a strong background in programming, Java experience is a plus,
4. excellent english writing skills.


In addition, although an obvious and very useful quality in general, it is not mandatory to speak French to apply.




How to apply:
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* Agenda


Submission deadline : May 7th 2015 11:59pm Paris time.
Interview, if selected : between 11-13 May 2015.
Notification : between 10-15 June


* Application file


Your application file MUST contain the following items :
1. A curriculum vitae,
2. The master diploma as a PDF file,
3. The details of your marks for the two last years of the Master,
4. Contact details of two associate professors or professors you had interacted with as reference.


Your application file MAY also contain any information or link you think is appropriate (e. g. scientific publication you have contributed to, online service you maintain, link to your social coding account, ...).


You must send your application as a single, zipped, PDF file to : christophe.gravier@univ-st-etienne.fr




* Evaluation of applications


All applications will be reviewed by all the members of the Knowledge and Representation project, a subdivision of the Connected Intelligence group at Hubert Curien laboratory.
A first selection will be made from your application folder.
If selected, you will enter a second phase of selection based on three exerices :
- A motivation interview so that we can know each others. The interview includes the advisors, but also the other researchers from the laboratory with a more remote perspective on the research,
- A technical assignment : a basic 2-hours Java (or C++) programming task.
- An english assignment.


The entire process may not exceed half a day and are all held the same day.
On that day, you are invited to come to the laboratory.




Location :
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Saint-Etienne is located about 2 hours from the mediterranean sea and 2 hours from Alps slopes. Lyon city is at 50 km. Saint Etienne has about 180.000 inhabitants including more than 20.000 students. Surrounded by hills where hiking and mountain biking are significant, Saint Etienne is also member of the Unesco Creative Cities Network for design.




References :
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[1] Bamba, P., Subercaze, J., Gravier, C., Benmira, N., and Fontaine, J. (October, 30th 2012). The Twitaholic Next Door. In Proc. of 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKMâ?T12), pages 2275â?"2278, Maui, Hawaiâ?Ti, USA. ACM.
[2] Gionis, A., Indyk, P., Motwani, R., et al. (1999). Similarity search in high dimensions via hashing. In VLDB, volume 99, pages 518â?"529.
[3] Gu, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, L., Zhang, D., and Li, J. (2013). An improved method of locality sensitive hashing for indexing large-scale and high-dimensional features. Signal Processing, 93(8):2244â?"2255.
[4] Indyk, P. and Motwani, R. (1998). Approximate nearest neighbors: towards removing the curse of dimensionality. In Proceedings of the thirtieth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing, pages 604â?"613. ACM.
[5] Ji, J., Li, J., Yan, S., Zhang, B., and Tian, Q. (2012). Super-bit locality-sensitive hashing. In NIPS, pages 108â?"116.

[6] Lin, R.-S., Ross, D. A., and Yagnik, J. (2010). Spec hashing: Similarity preserving algorithm for entropy-based coding. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010 IEEE Conference on, pages 848â?"854. IEEE.
[7] Matousek, J. (2013). Lecture notes on metric embeddings. In Department of Applied Mathematics, Czech Republic, and Institute of theoretical Computer Science Zurich, page 126 pages.
[8] Shrivastava, A. and Li, P. (2014). Densifying one permutation hashing via rotation for fast near neighbor search. In Proceedings of The 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, pages 557â?"565.
[9] Subercaze, J., Gravier, C., and Laforest, F. (2013). Towards an expressive and scalable twitterâ?Ts users profiles. In Proceeding of Web Intelligence, pages 101â?"108.
[10] Ture, F., Elsayed, T., and Lin, J. (2011). No free lunch: brute force vs. locality-sensitive hashing for cross-lingual pairwise similarity. In Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval, pages 943â?"952. ACM.
[11] Wang, Q., Si, L., Zhang, Z., and Zhang, N. (2014). Active hashing with joint data example and tag selection. In Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval, pages 405â?"414. ACM.
[12] Zhang, D., Wang, J., Cai, D., and Lu, J. (2010). Self-taught hashing for fast similarity search. In Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pages 18â?"25. ACM.
[13] Zhang, L., Zhang, Y., Tang, J., Gu, X., Li, J., and Tian, Q. (2013). Topology preserving hashing for similarity search. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia, pages 123â?"132. ACM.
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Posted by: Tri Kurniawan Wijaya <trikurniawanwijaya@yahoo.com>

Dear all,

FYI.

 

Best regards,
Iwan H. Sahputra

PhD position at the Max Planck Graduate Center in Mainz, Germany

Metal-organic framework growth: Mechanistic insight for tailored device design

Job offer from March 17, 2015

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are increasingly attracting attention as versatile functional materials for sensing, catalysis, optoelectronics and energy storage/conversion applications. Particularly attractive is the possibility of strategic combination of metallic and organic building blocks to create custom-tailored MOF materials with desired structure and functionality. In order to achieve such systematic MOF device design, fundamental understanding of the nucleation phase and early growth stages that govern the final material properties is urgently required.

The overall aim of the proposed PhD project is to derive a theoretical model for electrochemically controlled MOF growth that relates relevant tunable synthesis parameters, such as initial structure and composition, to the resulting MOF 2D/3D structure and chemical functionality.

More specific, we will investigate how metal/organic-linker/dopant concentrations and electrochemical synthesis potential govern the structure and crystallinity as well as the chemical sensing properties of a showcase luminescent Zn-MOF routinely used in advanced sensing applications. With help of such a theoretical model, bottom-up fabrication protocols can be developed that enable rational design of functional MOF materials.

The project will involve the advance of current computational electrochemistry techniques on a multiscale approach where small size electronic structure calculations will be combined with largescale atomistic simulations including reactive force fields (Jun. Prof. M. Sulpizi, JGU). The simulated models will be tested against experimental data, namely electrochemical vibrational spectroscopy (nearfield and nonlinear Raman, infrared) and complementary in situ scanning probe techniques (STM, AFM) (Dr. K.F. Domke, MPIP). The powerful combination of theoretical and experimental insight will provide a unique base for the development of strategic preparation protocols for MOFs with tailored architectures and functionalities.

Who can apply?

Mandatory requirements are: - master in Physics, Chemistry or Materials Science - good knowledge of Statistical Mechanics or Electronic Structure Theory; good knowledge of modern programming and scripting languages; proficiency in spoken and written English language. 

Application process

Applications including a statement of interest, curriculum vitae and name and address of at least one reference person, should be sent to sulpizi@uni-mainz.de.

http://psi-k.net/jobs/phd-position-at-the-max-planck-graduate-center-in-mainz-germany

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Posted by: Iwan Halim Sahputra <halimits@yahoo.com>

Dear all,

FYI.

 

Best regards,
Iwan H. Sahputra

PhD Position in Atomistic Mechanics of Glasses, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Friction and wear are important processes that determine the function of many mechanical devices, but their underlying microscopic physical principles are complex and often not well understood. Amorphous – or glassy – materials often form on surfaces that have experienced frictional loading. The research will involve large-scale molecular dynamics simulation of the near-surface deformation upon indentation and scratching of network and bulk metallic glasses. The goal is to build a fundamental understanding of energy dissipation channels and plastic deformation processes in these materials, and to identify potential differences in the behavior of ceramic and metallic glass formers. The project will also make connection with higher level meso- and macroscale theories for the description of the plasticity of glasses.

The research will be carried out in the group of Dr. Lars Pastewka in a project funded by the Emmy-Noether program of the German Research Foundation. The group is embedded in the MicroTribology Center (μTC) which bundles tribology-related research activities at KIT-IAM and Fraunhofer IWM. KIT provides excellent infrastructure for computational research, including multiple high-performance computing platforms and large-data storage facilities.

The candidate has an MSc (or equivalent) with a strong focus on Material Science, Mechanics, Physics or Chemistry. Additional knowledge of glasses, numerical methods, atomic-scale simulation, and experience with Python and C/C++ is an asset.

Remuneration occurs on the basis of the wage agreement of the civil service in TV-L. The application deadline is May 31, 2015.

For more information please contact Dr. Lars Pastewka, Email: lars.pastewka@kit.edu. Interested candidates are asked to send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, transcripts and contact information for at least one academic reference to the IAM-CMS front office reachable at office-CMS@iam.kit.edu.

KIT is an equal opportunity employer. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants with disabilities will be preferentially considered if equally qualified.

A postdoc and   Ph.D. position is offered at Inria Lille, in collaboration with CWI, Amsterdam.
The successful applicants will work with Daniil Ryabko at Inria, and will collaborate
with Peter Grünwald at CWI, Amsterdam, spending some of  time in Amsterdam.
(For postdoc between 3 and 6 months.)

Application Deadline: 26/04/2015, but better apply earlier
Duration: 36 months for PhD, 16 months for postdoc
Starting date: October, 2015

Please contact Daniil dot Ryabko at inria.fr before applying, with  [phd] in the subject line.

The topic is non-parametric sequential prediction.
The topic belongs to the areas of machine learning and (extremely) nonparametric statistics. The central theme of this topic is to explore which regularities are "learnable" from sequential data.
Specifically, this general question is considered for the problem of probability forecasting, that is, predicting the probabilities of future outcomes of a series of events given the past. The question to be addressed is: under which assumptions on the stochastic mechanism generating the data is it possible to give forecasts whose error becomes negligible as more data becomes available? Here we specifically allow for the possibility that the predictions are based on a model that is `wrong yet useful', i.e. it does not contain the data generating mechanism. In this 'nonrealizable' or 'misspecified' case, the question becomes: under what conditions it is possible to give forecasts that converge to the best available ones as more data becomes available?

Questions of this kind find applications in a variety of fields, such as finance, data compression, bioinformatics, environmental sciences,  and many others. However, the research topic is mainly about theoretical foundations rather than applications.


Background papers: paper1 (Ryabko), paper2 (Ryabko), paper3 (Grünwald/van Ommen)

The successful applicant will have a strong mathematical background with an M.Sc. in mathematics, computer science or statistics.


About Inria and the job

Established in 1967, Inria is the only public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences. Combining computer sciences with mathematics, Inria’s 3,500 researchers
with 350 working at the Inria  centre in Lille.

Lille is only 1h away from Paris, 34min from Brussels and 1h30 from London -  all by train.

Benefits: Possibility of French courses, Help for housing, Financial support from Inria to catering and transportation expenses, Scientific Resident card and help for visa, Catering service

Monthly salary after taxes: around 1580 € the 1st two years and 1660 € the 3rd year (social security included).

About CWI:

CWI is the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam. It conducts pioneering research in these fields and transfers its results to society. With 55 permanent research staff, 40 postdocs and 70 PhD students, CWI is a compact institute that lies at the heart of European research in mathematics and computer science. It was the birthplace of the European internet and was home to the invention of the popular programming language Python. CWI is located within easy biking distance from the centre of one of Europe's most beautiful, lively and international cities.
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Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint programme between the United Nations and
Government of Indonesia through UN Global Pulse (http://unglobalpulse.org/)
and the Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas).
Our mission is to harness big data for development and humanitarian action
and an internship at our lab can offer you a distinguished, unique
opportunity to help tackle development challenges with the public sector,
applying your skills around data analytics, modeling and visualization.



As a data innovation lab, the Research team at Pulse Lab Jakarta, together
with our colleagues in Pulse Lab New York and Pulse Lab Kampala, are
exploring various opportunities of applying big data in different sectors,
such as food security, public health, urban dynamics and economic
well-being, with different types of big data, such as social media, online
news, remote sensing, and online search keywords. This year, in particular,
we hope to test other methodologies and approaches by using other data
sources, e.g., financial transactions and mobility data.



We are looking for talented PhD students who have already published papers
at top-tier conferences and journals in a broad area of data science,
including (but not limited to) social media analysis, user behavior
modeling, statistical model, informational retrieval, NLP, predictive
analytics, complex network analysis, geospatial analysis, image processing,
and data visualization.



Starting dates and internship are negotiable depending on the selected
candidates' availability (preferably, two to three months, at least).
Applications for the internship should be received by *April 24th, 2015**. *
Please submit an application with your CV and motivation letter (clearly
highlighting the speciality, previous research, and/or which sector you
want to work in, if any) to Jong Gun Lee, the Data Scientist and Research
Lead at Pulse Lab Jakarta, jonggun.lee@un.or.id. Applications will be
evaluated on a rolling basis. We will invite shortlisted candidates for
interviews.

Applications for Türkiye Scholarships will start by February 25th. The application deadline is 31st March 2015. Applications for undergraduate, master and PhD programmes will received through the same application cycle.

The application to Türkiye Scholarships programmes is online and totally free process.

Candidates can apply only one scholarship programme in accordance with their educational background and academic goals.

Türkiye Scholarships include both scholarship and university placement at the same time. Applicants will be placed in a university and programme among their preferences specified in the online application form.

Most programmes in Turkish universities are instructed in Turkish. However, some departments and universities offer programmes in English or French. The candidates who want to study in these languages need to have an internationally recognized certificate to prove their language proficiency. Also, most of these foreign language programmes may ask international admission test scores such as GRE, GMAT etc. Candidates can check the language of instruction while selecting the programmes.

All Türkiye Scholarships winners who do not have C1 Level Certificate for Turkish Proficiency (including those who are placed into English or French-taught programmes) must attend 1-year Turkish Preparatory Course.

Art and Sport Scholarship Programmes, available for the first time this year, is specifically designed to encourage the skilled international students in the fields of art and sport to study at undergraduate, master or PhD (proficieny in art) degree levels in the prestigious Turkish universities with opportunities of Türkiye Scholarships. Applicants selected to be funded take one-year Turkish Language Course covered by scholarship. Subsequently, they have to receive an acceptance from the relevant faculties of Turkish universities. Applicants are expected to have documents (offical certificate, portfolio, etc.) to prove their success in the field they apply for.

The Scholarship Covers...

• Monthly stipend (600 TL for undergraduate, 850 TL for master and 1200 TL for PhD )
• Full tuition fee
• Free 1-year Turkish language course
• Free accommodation
• Round-trip air ticket
• Health insurance

 

To be eligible for Undergraduate Programmes, applicants must;

• be a citizen of a country other than Turkey (Anyone holding or ever held Turkish citizenship before cannot apply),
• not be a registered student in Turkish universities at the level of study they are applying,
• be have graduated or are likely to graduate from a secondary education institution,
• be under the age of 21 (no earlier than 01.01.1994),
• have at least specified (% 90 for medical sciences, % 70 for other undergraduate programs) cumulative grade point average, diploma grade, national exam or international exam score,
• be in good health

 

To be eligible for Postgraduate Programmes, applicants must;

• be a citizen of a country other than Turkey (Anyone holding or ever held Turkish citizenship before cannot apply)
• not be a registered student in Turkish universities at the level of study they are applying.
• be a bachelor's or master's degree holder by 30th of July 2015 at the latest
• be under the age of 30 for master's programmes (no earlier than 01.01.1985)
• be under the age of 35 for doctorate programmes (no earlier than 01.01.1980)
• have at least 75 % cumulative grade point average or diploma grade over their maximum graduation grade or have at least 75 % success in any accepted national or international graduate admissions test.
• be in good health

 

Required Documents

Undergraduate Level

• Online application
• A copy of a secondary school diploma or document indicating that the candidate is secondary school senior student,
• A certified secondary school transcript (indicating courses taken and relevant grades of the candidate)
• A copy of a valid ID card (passport, national ID, birth certificate etc.)
• Passport photo

Postgraduate Level

 

• Online application
• A copy of a bachelor or master's diploma or document indicating that the candidate is bachelor or master's senior student
• A certified bachelor and/or master's transcript (indicating courses taken and relevant grades of the candidate)
• A copy of a valid ID card (passport, national ID, birth certificate etc.)
• Passport photo

Application Procedure

Candidates are supposed to;

• go to www.turkiyeburslari.gov.tr
• click the online application form,
• create an account by entering an e-mail and password,
• read the application guide,
• log in to the system and fill out the application form,
• upload the required documents,
• and finally finish the application.

 

Click here to reach the Scholarship Programmes brochures and applications

 

Click here to apply

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=1809

PhD in Engineering: Water Management - Emergency planning in the Water Sector Ref: 1809

About the award

Location: Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, EX4 4QJ

Primary supervisor: Professor David Butler

Secondary supervisor: Dr Sarah Ward

Project Description: this PhD focuses on the important role of emergency planning and preparedness in the water sector.  The aim of the project is to explore the various threats or emergencies that are planned for and to understand the role of emergency planning in promoting water sector resilience.  Specific areas of study will be: plans relating to drought, flood response and water contamination incidents; how such plans are implemented and; how organisational learning (from a variety of sources) may result in revision or redevelopment of these plans. 

Close attention will be paid to how a plan is matched to a threat, subsequent impacts and potential consequences and to how appropriate standards or best practice have been developed. These plans will be compared and contrasted with other sectoral emergency plans (utility, infrastructure, health), local authority emergency plans and central government advice.  Methodologically, the PhD is quite flexible and a range of approaches that are complementary to the topic under study may be used. Such methods could include document content analysis, participant interviews, situational analysis or agent-based modelling.

The implications of different plans and planned responses will be incorporated into technical system models (developed by other team members) and their impact on the reliability, resilience and sustainability of the systems will be assessed. 

Recommendations for improved practice will be developed for a range of stakeholders and the candidate will facilitate project knowledge exchange, translation, communication and engagement.  This PhD forms a part of Professor David Butler’s EPSRC research fellowship on developing a new paradigm for ‘Safe SuRe’ urban water management in the UK in response to emerging challenges and global uncertainties. 

The successful candidate will work in a team of researchers embedded within the wider Centre for Water Systems at the University of Exeter.

Contact for Informal enquiries: Professor David Butler (01392 724064)

Application criteria

Applicants should have or expect to achieve at least a 2:1 Honours degree, or equivalent, in engineering, environmental science, geography, planning or allied subjects.

Summary

Application deadline:	27th March 2015

PhD Fellowship: ISGlobal, Universitat de Barcelona

Employer: ISGlobal, Universitat de Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Deadline: April 5, 2015

Description

Euroleish.net, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie - Innovative Training Network, is offering a PhD Fellowship for the project: Economic Evaluation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for the Development of Drugs and Diagnostic Tools for Leishmaniasis and Other Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and Private Business Impact.

Hosting Institution: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research- ISGlobal
Principal Supervisor: Dr. Elisa Sicuri

Partner Institutions:
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics - FIND (Switzerland)

Objectives:

To evaluate the cost effectiveness of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for the development of drugs and diagnostics for leishmaniasis and other NTDs from the public health perspective and the market/business impact.
Job Description:
Conduct a review of the literature on PPPs for the development of drugs and diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases
Estimate of the market/business and welfare impacts of PPPs for NTDs
Conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing PPPs and standard market procedure for the development of drugs and diagnostic tools for leishmaniasis and other NTDs
Prepare manuscripts for the publication in peer reviewed journals and prepare the PhD thesis

Profile:

Background: Master of Science in economics/health economics

Essential:

ITN Requirements:
Experience: candidates must be in the first four years of their research career and not yet have a doctoral degree.
Mobility: candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to 1st July 2015.
EUROLEISH-NET Requirements:
English proficiency (oral and written)
Availability to join the CRESIB/ISGlobal on the 1st July 2015.
Fulfil academic requirements to enrol the PhD programme in International Health at University of Barcelona on the 1st July 2015 (see details here). Note: To get enrolled at the PhD programmes, the Spanish universities require an MSc degree in related topics to the field of the thesis for all science graduated students, except for those owning a degree on Pharmacy, Medicine or Veterinary Science.
Network Mobility: willing to spend a significant amount of time (minimum 6 months) in Partner institutions when required.

Desirable:

Enthusiastic student with high interest in the economics of poverty related diseases
Has very good quantitative and analytic skills
Able to work both independently and in team
Knowledge of Spanish and/or French is a plus

How to apply:
http://www.isglobal.org/en/web/guest/programme-train/-/asset_publisher/oSgA0dGQ1Hzi/content/euroleish-net#content3

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The EIS research group <http://eis.iai.uni-bonn.de/About.html> at the
University of Bonn in Germany is pleased to announce


*Three full time PhD student positions in the field of question answering on
interlinked datasets*


The successful candidates will carry out research towards a PhD on one
of the following topics: (1) Effectively and efficiently supporting
dataset maintainers in semi-automatically cleaning and enriching
datasets to make them fit for question answering. (2) Discovering and
retrieving datasets of a high quality for QA with a high precision and
recall; automating dataset quality assessment. (3) Efficient and precise
translation of natural language questions into structured queries
against a federated knowledge base.


The successful candidates will work in the Marie SkÅ,odowska-Curie
International Training Network WDAqua (Answering Questions using Web
Data), undertaking advanced fundamental and applied research into
models, methods, and tools for data-driven question answering on the
Web, spanning a diverse range of areas and disciplines (data analytics,
social computing, Linked Data, and Web science). They will participate
in the networkâ?Ts training schedule and perform internships with other
project partners. There will be no teaching obligation but teaching can
be arranged, if desired.


On top of a generous basic salary we offer a mobility allowance and, if
applicable, a family allowance. Initial appointment will be for one year
with a possible extension to 3 years. The position starts as soon as
possible. Initial appointment will be for one year with a possible
extension to 3 years.


*We offer:*


  * Two or more academic supervisors from the WDAqua network (the PhD

    student working on topic (1) will obtain a dual PhD degree with
    Université Jean Monnet Saint-�tienne, France)
  * A support grant to attend conferences, summer schools, and other
    events related to your research.
  * The possibility to obtain a discounted public transport ticket


*Requirements*


  * A Master degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  * Not having resided/worked in Germany for more than 12 months in the
    3 years before starting the work (Marie SkÅ,odowska-Curie mobility rule)
  * Proficiency in spoken and written English. Proficiency in German is
    a plus.
  * Proficiency in Programming languages like Java/Scala or JavaScript,
    and modern software engineering methodology.
  * Familiarity with Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Indexing
    and Data Analytics is an asset.


*How to apply*


To apply, please send the following documents in pdf to
eis-leaders@lists.iai.uni-bonn.de before 28th February 2015.


  * CV
  * Master certificate or university transcripts
  * A motivation letter including a short research plan targeted to one
    of the topics listed above,
  * Two letters of recommendation
  * English writing sample (e.g. prior publication or master thesis
    excerpt).



Please direct informal enquiries to the same address or see
http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~langec/wdaqua/.


The University of Bonn is an equal opportunities employer. Preference
will be given to suitably qualified women or persons with disabilities,
all other considerations being equal. 

Dear all,

FYI.

 

Best regards,
Iwan H. Sahputra

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Subject: PhD in first-principles study of topologically non-trivial spin textures

Category: Job

From: Stefan Heinze

Date: 18-Feb-2015 15:04

Message:

The spintronics theory group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Kiel (http://www.itap.uni-kiel.de/theo-physik/heinze/) is opening a PhD position in the field of first-principles theory of magnetic skyrmions at interfaces and surfaces. Skyrmions are localized, stable magnetic structures which have been observed in chiral crystals and are promising for future spintronic applications. Recently, skyrmions have also been discovered in ultra-thin transition-metal films at surfaces which opened an entirely new class of systems.

The PhD candidate will focus on the exploration of complex magnetic structures at surfaces and interfaces starting from first principles electronic structure theory. She/he is expected to perform first-principles calculations using density functional theory as implemented in the FLEUR code (www.flapw.de) to explore magnetic interactions at transition-metal interfaces. The total energy calculations are mapped to an effective spin Hamiltonian which is solved using Monte-Carlo and spin dynamics simulations.

The spintronics theory group is working in close collaboration with a number of experimental groups at the universities of Hamburg, Paris and Glasgow. The candidate is expected to take an active part in the collaboration with the experimental groups in order to contribute to the understanding of present and future experiments.

In order to apply for the position, the candidate should have an outstanding master degree (or equivalent) in condensed matter physics, material science or physics. A very good knowledge of solid state physics is expected and experience in the application of electronic structure theory, Monte-Carlo or spin dynamics simulations is preferential. Programming skills are expected. As the project involves international teams, a very good level of English is expected. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Severely handicapped people will be preferentially considered in case of equivalent qualifications. The position is for 3 years and the salary and benefits will be provided with respect to TVL.

Interested candidates are asked to send their resume, list of publications, letter of motivation, and contact addresses of academic references in electronic form (under the subject: PhD-2015/1) or by regular mail to

Prof. Dr. Stefan Heinze,

Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Leibnizstr. 15

24098 Kiel, Germany

heinze@physik.uni-kiel.de

http://www.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de/~heinze

Consideration of candidates will start immediately and continue until the position is filled.

PhD studentship proposal


In the University de Lyon Saint-Etienne (France), the University Jean Monnet is searching for


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3 full-time PhD students 
in the domain of Semantic Web, Linked data, Internet Science
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These positions are offered in the frame of the EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Training Network WDAqua (Answering Questions using Web Data).
http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~langec/wdaqua/


Topics of the PhDs will cover the domains of provenance, trust, link discovery, data dynamicity and evolution, temporal information, named entity recognition, disambiguation, and reasoning.


== Essential Facts ==
The 3 PhD students will spend 3 years working in the WDAqua ITN (a total of 15 PhD students registered in the Universities of Bonn, Athens, Saint-Étienne, and Southampton). They will participate in an outstanding web science and data science training programme, and will have the chance to visit other partners. 
The gross monthly salary (including social security, before taxes) is about 3,110 ? plus a mobility allowance of 600 ?/month and, if applicable, a family allowance of 500 ?/month.


== Timeline ==
27 February 2015: application deadline
March 2015: first job offers made to successful applicants
July 2015-June 2018: duration of a PhD in WDAqua



== Eligibility and application procedure ==
Candidates must not have resided for more than 12 months in France in the 3 years before starting. They must hold an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and be able to combine both theoretical and practical aspects in their work. Fluent English communication and a passion for developing modern software solutions are fundamental requirements. Command of French or German is a plus but not required. The candidates should have experience and commitment to work in team and on the forefront of research.


You will need to submit a CV, university transcripts, a motivation letter including a short research plan targeted some topics of the above list, two letters of recommendation, and English writing samples (e.g., prior publication or master thesis excerpt).


The University of Saint Etienne is an equal opportunities employer. Preference will be given to suitably qualified women or persons with disabilities, all other considerations being equal.


== Contact ==
Pierre Maret and Antoine Zimmerman (Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint Etienne)
pierre.maret@univ-st-etienne.fr, zimmermann@emse.fr

PHD POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF LANGUAGE AND VISION 


One PhD position/studentship to study computational models of language
and vision is available in the Language, Interaction and Computation
track of the 3-year PhD program offered by the Center for Mind/Brain
Sciences at the University of Trento (Italy) (www.unitn.it/en/cimec).


The PhD program (start date: November 2015) is taught in English by an
international faculty. The Language, Interaction & Computation track
is organized by the CIMeC-CLIC laboratory, an interdisciplinary group
of researchers studying language and conceptualization using both
computational and cognitive methods (clic.cimec.unitn.it).


The topic of the PhD thesis will be defined with the student selected
as PhD candidate. Possible research directions include:
Compositionality in images; Methaphors in images; Searching for images
through natural language queries; Language, vision and reasoning. The
selected student will work closely with the research team of
the ERC project COMPOSES (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes/).


* Desired Profile *


Given the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we seek a brilliant
student with at least some of the following background:


- Machine learning
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
- Good programming skills
- Ability to work with big data
- Mathematical and statistical skills.


If you think that your background is relevant to the research program
outlined on the project website (clic.cimec.unitn.it/lavi) and you
have good programming and quantitative skills, please do get in touch
even if you do not fully fit the profile above.


All prospective students are expected to have an interest in working
in an interdisciplinary environment.




* The Research Environment *


The CLIC lab (clic.cimec.unitn.it) is a unit of the University of
Trento's Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC,
www.unitn.it/en/cimec), an English-speaking, interdisciplinary center
for research on brain and cognition whose staff includes
neuroscientists, psychologists, (computational) linguists, computer
scientists and physicists.


CLIC consists of researchers from the Departments of Computer Science
(DISI) and Psychology and Cognitive Science (DiPSCo) carrying out
research on a range of topics including concept acquisition,
corpus-based computational semantics, combining NLP and computer
vision, combining brain and corpus data to study cognition, formal
semantics and theoretical linguistics.


CLIC is part of the larger network of research labs focusing on
Natural Language Processing and related domains in the Trento region,
that is quickly becoming one of the areas with the highest
concentration of researchers in NLP and related fields anywhere in
Europe.


The CLIC/CIMeC laboratories are located in beautiful Rovereto, a
lively town in the middle of the Alps, famous for its contemporary art
museum, the quality of its wine, and the range of outdoors sport and
relax opportunities it offers:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovereto




* Application Information *


The official call of the Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain
Sciences will be announced shortly, and application details will be
available on the page:


http://www.unitn.it/en/drcimec/10140/admission-doctoral-school-cognitive-and-brain-sciences


We strongly encourage a preliminary expression of interest in the
project. Please contact Raffaella Bernardi (bernardi@disi.unitn.it),
attaching a CV in pdf or txt format, or a link to an online CV. For
information about the application process, please contact the school
administrator (phd.cimec@unitn.it).

Call for PhD students - 5G anticipatory networks


We look for brilliant PhD students, we offer an exiting research program and a very competitive salary.


Deadline: March 15


The rapid growth in mobile broadband network data lead to the unprecedented speed of 4G LTE deployment. The evolution calls for sustainable capacity growth and performance improvement in the next generation of wireless systems, namely 5G. The success of 5G heavily relies on delivering satisfactory user experience at a low operational cost. In this context, research and development (R&D) is required not only for technological innovation at the device level, but also management system design for the flexibility necessary to predict and adapt to network usage. To this end, anticipation is a promising and new approach. By predicting and adapting to upcoming events at various time scales, an anticipatory-enabled 5G network dramatically improves the operation quality and efficiency in comparison to the existing systems. Deploying anticipatory networking with effective prediction of network behaviour offers a twin advantage: First, resources ranging from spectrum and power to netwo!
 rk interfaces buffers can be managed optimally. Second, network operators can jointly plan how to share infrastructure and resources to provide service with substantially reduced expenditure.


The ACT5G project takes an inter-sector approach for anticipatory networking for 5G. The project fuses and integrates the scientific expertise of the participating academic sites with the industrial know-how of the consortium. The R&D core of ACT5G consists of models, methods, concepts, and algorithms for network anticipation and network reaction. The R&D tasks are carried out along with researcher training.


The PhD training programme of ACT5G is designed the maximize the partners' synergy, to promote career opportunities of the ACT5G Early-Stage Researchers in the European ICT arena, and thus generate new expertise and human capital for the European Research Area.


The ACT5G Consortium is starting the recruiting process for four PhD students as “Early-Stage Researchers” (ESRs) at Linköping University (LiU - Sweden) and Politecnico di Milano (Polimi - Italy), on the research area of Anticipatory


Networking, aiming at predicting traffic and environment changes in order to optimize wireless network resources and operations.


In particular the following four topics will be assigned to the recruited researchers:
• ESR1: Network Data Analytics [Academic Site: Polimi]
• ESR2: Wireless Link Status Anticipation [Academic Site: LiU]
• ESR3: Resource & Management Optimization for Wireless Software-defined Networking [Academic Site: LiU]
• ESR4: Performance and Enablers of Infrastructure and Resource Sharing [Academic Site: Polimi]


Each post is funded for 36 Months by the EU under the rules of the MSCA ITN EID Scheme1 and provides a very competitive salary (3710 euro/month before taxes and social security fees, +600 euro/month if family obligations exist). The recruited researchers are required to
• follow a PhD program at the respective academic sites and
• spend 50% of their project involvement at Alcatel Lucent - Bell Labs, in Stuttgart, Germany.


For more information and application:
http://act5g.itn.liu.se
Call for applications in PDF: http://act5g.itn.liu.se/info.pdf