The Institute of Advanced Telecommunications within the School of Engineering at Swansea University wishes to invite applications for a prestigious PhD Studentship to work on the EPSRC/Mobile VCE Core-5 research programme entitled Green Radio.
This prestigious studentship in Architectures and Network Coding for Enterprise and Home Networks is available now to UK, EU and overseas applicants.
Introduction:
Green Radio is one of three exciting and innovative research programmes sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (www.epsrc.ac.uk) and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile & Personal Communications (www.mobilevce.com) as part of its Core-5 research programme. Green Radio is an industry-led collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh, Bristol, Kings College London and Swansea. Given the World wide growth in the number of mobile subscribers and the increasing contribution of information technology to the overall energy consumption of the world, there is an urgent environmental need to reduce the energy requirements of radio access networks. From an operator perspective, reduced energy consumption translates directly to lower Operating Expenditure (OPEX). These are the key drivers of the Green Radio programme. Both wide area public networks (traditionally “cellular”) and local area private networks (traditionally “wireless LAN”) will be considered, recognising that the structure of a Green Radio Network may differ from today’s radio networks.
Project Definition:
In this project you would investigate architectures and network coding strategies for enterprise and home networks in order to minimise energy consumption while satisfying users’ QoS requirements. Your role would therefore be to consider how to integrate network coding with other signalling techniques that area used in current as well as future enterprise and home networks. The proposed network coding schemes will be implemented in the software protocol stack of the 802.11 standard in order to demonstrate the validity of theoretically predicted energy savings.
Eligibility:
You should hold a 1st class Honours degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a closely related discipline. Preference will be given to applicants who hold a related master’s degree at distinction level. The studentship would also suit mature individuals with relevant industrial experience. For UK and EU applicants, the studentship will cover the full university tuition fees and provide a minimum starting stipend of £12,940 pa. In respect of overseas applicants, the studentship will cover the full university tuition fees including the overseas contribution and provide a minimum starting stipend of £12,940 pa. Minimum stipends are fixed annually by EPSRC. The scholarship is available now and must be taken up before 1st June 2009. For informal enquiries please contact Professor Tim O’Farrell (t.ofarrell[ at ]swansea.ac.uk)
Prospective applicants are invited to follow the University’s application procedures as detailed online at:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/
Please mark your application form “EPSRC/MVCE Studentship Green Radio” in the space for funding organisation and highlight the project you wish to apply for, in order of preference, in the section additional supporting information. Applications submitted without an up to date CV and suitable referees will not be considered.
Application closing date: Friday 17 April 2009.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
PhD Studentship in Architectures and Network Coding for Enterprise and Home Networks, University of Swansea [UK]
Master of Science in Environmental Engineeering (Petroleum Engineering), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
The Eni Project offers international students the possibility to receive a scholarship and other benefits to graduate from the Politecnico di Torino attending a Master of Science program in Environmental Engineering (Petroleum Engineering) .
The project, promoted by the Politecnico di Torino and financed by Eni - Exploration & Production Division and Eni Corporate University, will offer for the 2009/2010 academic year up to 40 scholarship to international students.
The length of the course is 2 years full time and corresponds to 120 ECTS credits. All the courses are entirely held in English.
The activities will begin in September 2009.
Requirements
Academic requirements
In order to be admitted into the Master of Science in Environmental Engineering (Petroleum Engineering) program, applicants must possess a university degree equivalent to a Bachelor of Science degree, which is approximately equivalent to three or four years after secondary school, depending on the number of secondary school years.
For further information, please visit the Entry requirements page.
Application is open to students who:
* are not Italian citizens
* are not older than 32 years (by 31/12/2009)
* have an adequate knowledge of the English language, preferably demonstrated by an international certification
* are not already enrolled at the Politecnico di Torino before the 2009/2010 academic year
are not recipients of other scholarships, Italian or foreign.
Obtaining a degree at the Politecnico di Torino
To graduate at the Politecnico di Torino, students must attain a total of 120 credits, including exams and the final dissertation. A plan of studies must be outlined under the guidance of the student’s academic tutor to identify, in relation to the student’s previous academic career, the courses additionally required to complete the program of studies for the Master of Science course in which the student is enrolled at the Politecnico di Torino. The time required to graduate is approximately 4 semesters. However, the effective duration is also dependent upon each student’s capacity. Note also that the time required for the compulsory Italian course, before classes start, is not considered in the estimated duration of the program.
Please note that scholarship recipients must attend their program for its entire length (2 years – 120 credits). Students who have already attended other university courses can ask for a credit transfer up to a maximum of 10 credits per year (20 credits in total). Please note that credits achieved in preparatory courses or in the first year/second year in systems where preuniversity education lasts 10/11 years can not be taken into account.
Scholarships
Selection criteria
Applicants will be selected based on their previous academic career and on their Curriculum Vitae.
Amount of the scholarship
The gross amount of the Eni Project scholarship is 10.000 Euro per year (20.000 Euro for the complete period). The exact net sum is dependent upon the individual tax conditions of each student, which can be verified only upon the arrival of the student.
The amount of the scholarship will not be increased in case the student will need more time to graduate than indicated.
The allocation of the scholarship is dependent upon the submission, within 10 days from the arrival in Italy of the student, of the original documentation, which must correspond with the documentation attached to the online form (see the “Selection outcomes” section below).
Payment of the scholarship occurs periodically. The first instalment is dependent upon the possession of the relevant documentation (residence permit, Italian fiscal code, and bank account in the name of the scholarship recipient), all obtainable upon arrival in Italy; for this reason, the first instalment is not paid at the moment of arrival at the Politecnico di Torino, but in the course of the following month.
For more information, please refer to Call for Applications for the 2009/2010 Academic Year
PhD Studentship in Radio Resource Management for Future Mobile Cellular Radio Networks, University of Swansea, UK
The Institute of Advanced Telecommunications within the School of Engineering at Swansea University wishes to invite applications for a prestigious PhD Studentship to work on the EPSRC/MobileVCE Core-5 research programme entitled Green Radio.
This prestigious studentship in Radio Resource Management for Future Mobile Cellular Radio Networks is available now to UK, EU and overseas applicants.
Introduction:
Green Radio is one of three exciting and innovative research programmes sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (www.epsrc.ac.uk) and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile & Personal Communications (www.mobilevce.com) as part of its Core-5 research programme. Green Radio is an industry-led collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh, Bristol, Kings College London and Swansea. Given the World wide growth in the number of mobile subscribers and the increasing contribution of information technology to the overall energy consumption of the world, there is an urgent environmental need to reduce the energy requirements of radio access networks. From an operator perspective, reduced energy consumption translates directly to lower Operating Expenditure (OPEX). These are the key drivers of the Green Radio programme. Both wide area public networks (traditionally “cellular”) and local area private networks (traditionally “wireless LAN”) will be considered, recognising that the structure of a Green Radio Network may differ from today’s radio networks.
PhD Project Definition:
Green Radio will develop new energy efficient cellular deployment architectures based on bringing BSs closer to mobile users. Increasing BS and/or relay densities increases inter-cell interference levels. Consequently inter-cell interference is a major barrier that impedes the realisation of energy efficient mobile cellular networks. Your role will be to exploit cooperation between BSs (and relays) in an LTE-advanced RAN in order to limit inter-cell as well as intra-cell interference by the appropriate use of radio resource management (RRM) techniques.
Eligibility:
You should hold a 1st class Honours degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a closely related discipline. Preference will be given to applicants who hold a related master’s degree at distinction level. The studentship would also suit mature individuals with relevant industrial experience. For UK and EU applicants, the studentship will cover the full university tuition fees and provide a minimum starting stipend of £12,940 pa. In respect of overseas applicants, the studentship will cover the full university tuition fees including the overseas contribution and provide a minimum starting stipend of £12,940 pa. Minimum stipends are fixed annually by EPSRC. The scholarship is available now and must be taken up before 1st June 2009. For informal enquiries please contact Professor Tim O’Farrell (t.ofarrell[ at ]swansea.ac.uk)
Prospective applicants are invited to follow the University’s application procedures as detailed online at http://www.swan.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/
Please mark your application form “EPSRC/MVCE Studentship Green Radio” in the space for funding organisation and highlight the project you wish to apply for, in order of preference, in the section additional supporting information. Applications submitted without an up to date CV and suitable referees will not be considered.
Application closing date: Friday 17 April 2009
2009 International Ibsen Scholarships by Norwegian Government
In total, scholarship funds amount to 1,000,000 NOK (approx. 125.000 Euro/150.000 US Dollars) in 2009, and will be awarded to Ibsen-related projects worldwide.
The scholarships are meant to act as incentives for critical discourse in regards to existential and society-related subject matters concerning Henrik Ibsen.
Scholarships are applicable to individuals, organizations or institutions within the artistic and cultural communities.
We wish for as many relevant applications as possible, from projects throughout the world. The applications will be subject to scrutiny by a review panel consisting of three people.
The International Ibsen Scholarships are awarded annually. Four projects in Asia, North-America and Europe were the initial beneficiaries when scholarships were awarded for the first time in 2008.
Presentation of the scholarships is staged in Ibsens city of birth, Skien in Norway, on September 11th, 2009 and coincides with the Skien International Ibsen Conference.
The application deadline for The International Ibsen Scholarships is May 1st, 2009.
“Ibsen never gave up. He continued to the end to write, searching for that something more, that could give sense to everything - and to himself. Ibsen didn’t try to change the world, to rectify its evils. He tried to discover why even the worst of life is worth saving. And to find the stories and the situations through which to make this - affirmation.”
Peter Brook (c) 2008 Winner of the International Ibsen Award 2008
For further information, statutes and application form, kindly visit our website http://www.ibsenawards.com.
Contact: Hilde Guri Bohlin, e-mail: hilde.guri.bohlin@skien.kommune.no, ph: +47-38-58-10-00 / +47-917-67-903.
Marie Curie International Fellowships
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research has published three calls for proposals under the ‘People’ programme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Intended to provide support for training and career development of researchers, the calls include:
Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)
International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)
International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
The Intra-European Fellowship scheme targets experienced researchers seeking to enhance their individual competence and acquire new skills at an interdisciplinary level. Under certain conditions, European nationals established in Australia are eligible to conduct the project in a host European institution.
International Outgoing Fellowships aim to reinforce the international dimension of European researchers by giving them the opportunity to work in a high-level research organisation in a third country. The Marie Curie IOF provides financial support to a European fellow completing a research and training project for 1 or 2 years (typically 18 months) in an Australian institution then returning to the European host institution for 12 months. The fellowship covers a stipend for the duration of the project, overheads for the project administration, travel and limited funding for other research activities.
The International Incoming Fellowship scheme is addressed at top-class researchers active in third countries, who would like to work on research projects and share their knowledge with colleagues in Europe. Ultimately, the goal is to develop mutually beneficial research cooperation between Europe and third countries. The Marie Curie IIF provides financial support to an Australian fellow taking a research and training project to an host institution in Europe for 1 to 2 years. The fellowship covers a stipend for the duration of the project, overheads for the project administration, travel and limited funding for other research activities.
cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=200
Important to consider:
France PhD Grant 2009 2010
Title: Intracellular signaling cascades involved
in the integration of neuromodulatory signals in the
striatum / nucleus accumbens.
Project:
As a majority of neuropsychiatric diseases
affect neuromodulatory systems, it becomes
increasingly important to gain a better
understanding of the cellular processes involved in signal
integration. For example, dopamine plays a
key role in controlling the output of basal ganglia
such as complex motor sequences (dorsal
striatum) or behavioral orientation (“motivation”,
ventral striatum).
Imbalances in the
dopaminergic system indeed result in debilitating conditions
such as Parkinson disease, addiction,
psychosis... In the striatum, medium spiny neurons (MSN)
express either dopamine D1 or D2 receptors
which are coupled in an opposite way to the cAMP/
PKA cascade. These neurons also express
proteins isoforms involved in the cAMP/PKA cascade
which are rare or absent in any other
brain region, such as DARPP-32, Gαolf,
type V adenylyl
cyclase, type 10 phosphodiesterase… This
signaling cascade is therefore expected to perform
differently in the striatum than in other
region of the brain.
The very recent development of FRET
biosensors now allow a direct assessment of the cAMP/
PKA cascade in living neurons. There are
indicators for various steps of the cascade (cAMP
concentration, PKA activity and CREB
phosphorylation level) and we routinely record D1
responses in medium spiny neurons in
specific cellular domains (cytosol, nucleus, dendrites). In
addition, we are developing a unique
method to record this signal in the striatum at the cellular
level in the living animal. Our preliminary
results demonstrated a more complex regulation of
the PKA signal in MSN as compared to our
former results obtained in the cortex, which must
now be explained at the molecular level. Our
project is to study the cAMP/PKA signalisation in
different cellular domains in
physiological and pathological situations in animal models of
Parkinson disease and drug addiction.
We thus use very innovative methodologies
to combine mechanistic studies performed ex vivo
with cellular recordings performed in vivo, in an attempt to bridge the gap between
cellular and
integrated physiology.
References
Gervasi, Hepp, Tricoire, Zhang, Lambolez,
Paupardin-Tritsch and Vincent, 2007, "Dynamics of
PKA Signaling at the Membrane, in the
Cytosol and in the Nucleus of Neurons in Mouse Brain
Slices" J. Neurosci. 27 p2744-50.
Vincent, Maskos, Charvet, Bourgeais,
Stoppini, Leresche, Changeux, Lambert, Meda and
Paupardin-Tritsch, 2006, "Live
imaging of neural structure and function by fibred fluorescence
microscopy." EMBO Rep. 7 p1154-61.
Vincent, Gervasi and Zhang, 2008,
"Real-time monitoring of cyclic nucleotide signaling in
neurons using genetically encoded FRET
probes." Brain
Cell Biol 36
p3-17.
Contact:
Pierre VINCENT; Equipe Intégration Cellulaire des Signaux
Neuromodulateurs
Neurobiologie des Processus Adaptatifs UMR7102 CNRS UPMC, Paris,
France.
phone: 33 (0)1 44 27 25 88; e-mail: pierre.vincent@upmc.fr
http://npa.snv.jussieu.fr/eq/theme_eq.php?eq=icsn〈=en
PhD grant from CNRS: https://www2.cnrs.fr/DRH/doctorants-09/
MA & MSc Scholarships in Islamic Finance Programmes by Durham Islamic Finance Programme
MA & MSc in Islamic Finance Programmes by Durham Islamic Finance Programme, School of Government & International Affairs, Durham University, UK
Dear All,
I am happy to inform you that our new postgraduate degrees in Islamic finance, MA in Islamic Finance and MSc in Islamic Finance have now been launched; and applications are invited for 2009-2010 academic year commencing from October 2009.
Please note that MSc in Islamic Finance, as can be seen on the detailed structure of the programmes on our website, requires more quantitative elements such as econometrics as compared to MA in Islamic Finance.
Please follow the link for further information on MA/MSc in Islamic Finance and online application. Please note that application is only through online system.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/difp/mamsc/
You will be able to see the link for online application at the top of this information page on the website.
Please also note that Durham Islamic Finance Programme offers, Ph.D. and MA by Research programmes in Islamic finance; and also Durham Islamic Finance Summer School is another of our very successful programme.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further information.
Yours,
Mehmet
PS Information sheet is also attached as a pdf format.
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Dr Mehmet Asutay
Lecturer in Political Economy
School of Government and International Affairs
Durham University
Elvet Hill Road
Durham DH1 3TU
UK
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Managing Editor
Review of Islamic Economics
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E-mail: mehmet.asutay@ durham.ac. uk
Tel: + (0) 191 3345672
Fax: +(0) 191 334 5661
Web: http://www.durham. ac.uk/sgia
