Agnes Cooke Scholarship Phd Universities

The Phd Universities organization is offering scholarship to a deserving Virginia college student interested in pursuing a career in communications.
The scholarship is open to male and female students and to undergraduate and graduate students. The scholarship is open to any Virginia college student or to any Virginia resident attending an out-of-state college. Phd Universities Scholarship applicants must be planning a career in journalism, photo journalism, public relations or another related communications field.Members of Virginia Press Women receive additional consideration.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 July 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application

PHD UNIVERSITIES STUDENT POSITION

The PHD UNIVERSITIES research focuses on shared memory, parallel algorithms, data structures and programming. This project is based on the fine-grained synchronization and coherence in memory parallel programming to also compromise the balance between the costs of synchronization and ease of programming. It is possible, based on common data structures / primitives shared-memory/multi-core simultaneous access to data and scalability exposure to different types of architecture and development methods work from such components.

PHD UNIVERSITIES Employment is expected to start in autumn 2011 (small differences can be negotiated). As a PhD student you are employed by Chalmers and receive a salary according to current wage (starting salary in this day and age. Ca. 25000SEK before tax). A maximum of 20% of your time to be devoted to other functions within the department, teaching in particular. The remaining time is dedicated to your own courses and research under the project and will earn the doctorate within 5 years.

Required qualifications

PHD UNIVERSITIES Applicants shall have a Master’s Degree or corresponding (Sw. civilingenjörsexamen) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or in a related discipline. As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills, orally as well as literally, are needed. Further, since the research work normally involves developing and testing analytical techniques, good programming skills are important. A successful candidate should have a profound interest in data structures and algorithms for shared memory and many-core architectures.

PHD UNIVERSITIES It will be very useful if your application includes parts of your own work, such as theses and articles that you have authored or co-authored. Please notice also that it is highly recommended that you include or e-mail letters of recommendation; we typically get a large number of applications, and it is not feasible for us to request individual letters.

You may apply even though you might not have completed your degree yet, but expect to do so before the position starts. Knowledge of Swedish is not a prerequisite for applying since English is our working language for research, and we publish internationally. Both Swedish and English are used in undergraduate courses. Half of our researchers and PhD students at the department come from more than 30 different countries.

Application procedure

The PHD UNIVERSITIES application shall be written in English and include the following items:

1. An application of a maximum of one A4 page containing your specific qualifications for the position
2. Attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents
3. Curriculum Vitae
4. Letters of recommendation and name of reference persons (optional)

The application shall be sent electronically as pdf or zipped documents.Please use the button at the foot of the page to reach the application form.

If any material is not available electronically or cannot be transferred to pdf format, the material can be sent as a hard copy to Registrar. The applicants name and the reference number (2011/49) must be written on the first page of the application.

Address:
Registrar
Chalmers University of Technology
SE-412 96 Göteborg
Sweden

Further information

It will be very useful if your application includes parts of your own work such as theses and articles that you have authored or co-authored. Please notice also that it is highly recommended that you include or e-mail letters of recommendation; we typically get a large number of applications, and it is not feasible for us to request individual letters.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact us:

Research level: Marina Papatriantafilou
e-post: ptrianta@chalmers.se

Doctoral education level: Jan Jonsson
e-post: janjo@chalmers.se

Division level: Peter Lundin
e-post: peter.lundin@chalmers.se

Union representatives

• SACO: Jan Lindér
• ST: Marie Wenander
• SEKO: Johan Persson

All reachable via Chalmers exchange: +46 31 772 10 00

Fellowships for Scholars Phd Universities

Phd Universities the Institute for Advanced Study is a private, independent institution in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1930 to focus on creating a community of scholars on intellectual inquiry, free education and the obligations of the other universities.


Each year,Phd Universities researchers are applying all over the world come to the institute to conduct their own research. These select a subscription for a specified period and offered a scholarship. Members have access to extensive resources of the Institute, includin offices, a library, a restaurant and social housing and office services.

The Phd Universities School of Social Science each year invites as Members around twenty visiting scholars who constitute a genuinely interdisciplinary and international group. A completed doctorate or equivalent is required by the application deadline, and memberships are awarded at both the junior and senior levels. Memberships are awarded for the full academic year only.Phd Universities visiting Members are expected to pursue only their own research, while the School organizes a weekly seminar at which Members as well as invited guests present their ongoing work. The School is not wedded to any particular intellectual or disciplinary approach. It welcomes applications in economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. It encourages social scientific work with a historical and humanistic bent and also considers applications in history, philosophy, literary criticism, literature, and linguistics. The following thematic focus is neither an exclusive nor excluding theme; it is expected that only one-third of the accepted scholars will pursue work relating to this theme. Phd Universities applications are strongly encouraged from scholars across the social sciences, whether or not their research corresponds to the theme

Application Deadline : 1 November 2011

Further Information

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