Study in UK: PhD Studentship in Vibration Dynamics – University of Sheffield

The Vibration Engineering Section (VES) at The University of Sheffield is a leading team of researchers and academics, led by Professor Aleksandar Pavic, Professor James Brownjohn, Dr Paul Reynolds and Dr Vitomir Racic. It’s exceptional post-doctoral and post-graduate researchers support its international reputation in vibration serviceability, structural health monitoring and active vibration control and their application to real world problems.

 

Professor Brownjohn and Dr Racic are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position from 12^th January 2012. The post is supported by a new EPSRC grant EP/I029567/1 ‘Synchronisation in dynamic loading due to multiple pedestrians and multiple occupants of vibration-sensitive structures’ and is for a term of 42 months.

With technician support in the early stages, the successful applicant will manage experimental activities for wireless and CCTV (video imaging) motion tracking of individuals, groups and crowds walking, jumping and bouncing. In the later stages of the project, he/she will help develop and verify models of the synchronization effect between multiple people under a wide range of conditions, such as different crowd densities and audio, visual and tactile stimuli. These synchronisation models will be further expanded into a new generation of models describing group and crowd dynamic loading which can be used reliably in design of civil engineering structures such as footbridges, stadia and floors.

The research requires liaison with project collaborators in the Department of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, and at the School of Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth.

The applicant must, by the start of employment, ideally hold a First Class degree in a relevant discipline such as Engineering or Computer Science.

Please apply in writing directly to Dr Vito Racic at the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, including your CV.

For more information on the Vibration Engineering Section, please visit www.vibration.shef.ac.uk, or for specific questions, please contact Dr Racic at v.racic@sheffield.ac.uk.

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IMRCEES Erasmus Mundus Scholarships

The International Masters in Russian, Central and East European Studies (IMRCEES) offers you the unique opportunity to combine a year of study in Glasgow in the UK with a year studying overseas (in English) at one of our renowned partner institutions and leads to the award of a double degree. It is recognised by the European Commission as an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course.

We are an international Consortium composed of six European universities and five non-European universities. Our network of associate non-educational partners from the business, public policy and NGO communities promotes student employability by offering a range of internships.

IMRCEES is intended for students wishing to pursue a career in government policy-making, the business world, diplomatic service, international organisations, and media or as preparation for further academic study through a PhD programme. Graduates will be equipped with the skills to address the myriad of socio-economic, and political/security challenges of the 21st century in one or more of the following critical geopolitical areas of the EU and its near abroad/neighbourhood: Central Asia; the Caucasus/Caspian Sea Basin; Russia; Central and Eastern Europe, including the Baltic Sea Region. Flexible and high quality language training is an essential part of IMRCEES.

An array of academic conferences, workshops and other socio-cultural events involving all Consortium partners will help to make the IMRCEES experience a truly rewarding one in terms of making lasting friendships and equipping you for a future professional career.

IMRCEES offers Erasmus Mundus scholarships – but the programme is also open to self-funding students. The application process for the first cohort of Erasmus Mundus IMRCEES students will begin in September 2011.

When applying for IMRCEES, applicants are invited to apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship (except if they have benefitted from such a scholarship before). Applicants will be informed if they are awarded a scholarship with the admission notification.

There are two different forms of scholarships, Category A and Category B. The scholarships’ terms depend on the student’s country of origin/residence and main academic and/or professional activity.

Category A scholarships are available for applicants who:
_are neither resident in one of the 27 EU member states or in an EEA-EFTA country (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
_nor carried out their main academic and/or professional activity for more than 12 months in any of the EU/EEA-EFTA member states in the last five years.

Category B scholarships are available for applicants who
_are resident in one of the 27 EU member states or in an EEA-EFTA country (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) and/or
_regardless of their residence carried out their main academic and/or professional activity for more than 12 months in any of the EU/EEA-EFTA member states in the last five years.

IMRCEES Tuition Fees

For the Erasmus Mundus cohort commencing the 2-year programme in September 2012, the following tuition fees should be paid to the Consortium:

_€4,500 per semester for Category A (non-European) students
_€2,550 per semester for Category B (European) students

Scholarship students will receive a fee waiver to cover the difference between the Erasmus Mundus scholarship contribution to tuition fees and the actual tuition fees. For Category A scholarship students, this amounts to a fee waiver of €500 per semester and Category B scholarship students will receive a fee waiver of €550 per semester.

The participation costs for both non-European and European scholarship students cover all tuition fees and health insurance; they do not include accommodation as well as other living expenses and travel. For required travel see student mobility diagram.

Website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/erasmusmundus/
Email: http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/erasmusmundus/contactus/

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Cambridge International Scholarship Scheme (CISS) 2011

The University of Cambridge will offer, via the Cambridge Trusts, approximately 80 Cambridge International Scholarships to Overseas Students who embark on a research course in the next academical year. The awards will be made on a competitive basis to those applicants considered by their departments to be the most outstanding.

Eligibility

To be eligible to receive a Cambridge International Scholarship students must:

1. be liable to pay the Overseas University Composition Fee.
2. be engaged in a three year research programme leading to the PhD (i.e. will be registered as PhD, “Probationary PhD” or “CPGS”) starting in the next academical year.
3. be engaged in full-time study.
4. have a high upper-second-class undergraduate honours degree from a UK Higher Education Institution, or an equivalent from an Overseas Institution.

Please note: all students applying for a course of one year duration or less (including LLM, MSt, MBA, MED, Part III Mathematics, MPhil) in the next academical year are not eligible for a CISS award in the next academical year.

Application Process

1. In order to be eligible for a CISS award commencing in the next academical year, you must have applied for admission/continuation as a graduate student to the University of Cambridge either online (admission students only) or via the Graduate Admission and Scholarship Application Form (GRADSAF) by 1st December 2011.

   It is important that you send in your supporting documentation as soon as possible after you have applied for admission online, because your application will not be looked at until this is received. The closing date for this funding is firm – no late applications can be considered.

   • Step 3 – How To Apply
   • Continuation and Readmission

   If you are not certain which application process applies to you, please contact Kathy White at the Board of Graduate Studies.

   Kathy White (kathy.white@admin.cam.ac.uk)

2. Every eligible applicant for a three year research course leading to the PhD in the next academical year will be considered to have applied for a Cambridge International Scholarship provided their completed application is received by the Board of Graduate Studies before 1st December 2010.
3. Applicants are expected to also seek funding from other sources.
4. The application must be fully complete, i.e. including academic references and a research statement. The CISS committee will only consider academic achievement and research potential. It is therefore critical that academic references and a research statement are included.
5. Candidates should note that, given the volume of applications, applications which arrive after the deadline will not be entered for the Cambridge International Scholarships competition, nor will we provide feedback on the outcome of this competition at any stage.
6. In January the Board of Graduate Studies will submit a list of all eligible candidates to the relevant departments/faculties.

The competition proceeds in a number of stages:

1. Ranking
   In January and February, the departments and faculties will consider your application against all others and draw up a ranked list of their top applicants.
2. Nomination
   Departments/faculties will nominate the very best candidates from their ranked list and submit this, together with a departmental/faculty statement of support, to the Board of Graduate Studies.
3. Offer of Admission
   Departments/faculties will make a recommendation for an offer of admission to the Board of Graduate Studies for their nominated applicants.
4. Selection of top nominated candidates for CISS awards
   In March, all the nominated candidates with a conditional offer of admission will be considered by a selection committee comprising academic members of the Board of Graduate Studies. The committee will draw up a list of candidates who will be made an offer of a CISS award immediately. A reserve list of candidates will also be drawn up who may receive a CISS award should any become available. These candidates will receive a confirmatory email. Several hundred partially funded awards will also be made by the Cambridge Trusts to candidates unsuccessful in obtaining a full cost CISS award.

If candidates have not received an email by the end of April, they should assume that their application for a CISS award has not been successful.

It is a condition that successful candidates must meet all their outstanding conditions for admission to the University in order to receive CISS funding.

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Training for Leadership, decision making, skills, comunication, oration power, team-building and domination techniquees. Elegibility criteria: Advanced English. Admission open till October 15, 2011.

International Doctoral Program In Informatics 2012 – Kyoto University

The Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) offers a scholarship in selected fields, called the Special Scholarship for International Doctoral Programs. The Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University will accept eight new Ph.D. course students under this program from the year 2012. This program has several attractive features—for example, the official language will be English(Japanese language skill will not be required); and the fact that all tuition fees will be waived. Interested applicants should carefully read the rules and conditions in the guidelines for admission before submitting their applications. Selections will be by Kyoto University, with successful students recommended to the Monbukagakusho as candidates for the scolarship.

The Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, consists of the following departments:

• Intelligence Science and Technology
• Social Informatics
• Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems
• Applied Mathematics and Physics
• Systems Science
• Communications and Computer Engineering

Applicants must choose one of the above as their majoring field when applying for this program. Details of the departments in the Graduate School of Informatics are posted
on our website (http://www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/admission/program.html).
Deadline of application *January 6, 2012*.

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Training for Leadership, decision making, skills, comunication, oration power, team-building and domination techniquees. Elegibility criteria: Advanced English. Admission open till October 15, 2011.

Scholarship for Graduate Students in Aerospace Engineering-South Korea

Scholarship for Graduate Students in Aerospace Engineering, South Korea
We proudly announce the launch of LANL-CBNU Engineering Institute Korea, a joint venture program of our lab with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. Therefore, we need some dedicated graduate students as the backbone of the program. Our projects are related, but not limited, to the application of laser ultrasound technologies and optical fiber sensors technologies to the non-destructive test and evaluation (NDT&E), and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of important engineering structures, such as wind turbine, space launch vehicle, nuclear power plant, and aircraft.

All the projects are application based with supports from the industries or government, and have great potential to be commercialized. If you are highly motivated, we want to invite you to join our research team.

Basic Requirements:
- Electrical, electronics, mechatronics engineering, or image processing background.
- Prefer candidates with signal/image processing, embedded system (FPGA), real-time
application, RFID, wireless sensors network, or LabVIEW skills.
- Good TOEFL score.
Financial Supports:
- Starting pay KRW 950,000 for master; KRW 1,150,000 for PhD (after tax deduction).
- Increment depending on research achievement, e.g. KRW 1,650,000 for a present PhD
student in the 4th year.
- Office utensils supported, including PC, furniture, stationary, etc.
Application or Enquiry:
- Required documents:
Detail resume with recent photo, copy of certificates and TOEFL result, one A4 page
of self-introduction (your personality, motivation to join this field of study, reasons of
application and personal goals, future plan after your graduation, etc).
- Send application or enquiry to Advanced NDE Team leader:
ANDEatSSL2@gmail.com
- Application due date: Spring semester: 20th Oct. 2011; Fall semester: 20th Apr. 2012.
- For more information, visit us at http://ssl.jbnu.ac.kr/xe/research_f (Please use Internet Explorer.)
Prof. Jung-Ryul, LEE
Smart Structures Laboratory & LANL-CBNU EI-K,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Chonbuk National University, South Korea.

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Career Development Fellow in Media and Democracy

Career Development Fellow in Media and Democracy

(3-year fixed term position)

Grade 8: 36,862 – 44,016

The Department of Politics and International Relations and the"Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism andDemocrasy" seek a candidate for a 3-year postdoctoral position in media and  democracy with an appointment date of 1st January 2012 (or as soon as possible thereafter).

The appointment is expected to be made on the University's grade 8 salary scale (36,862 – 44,016 pa). However, if the selected candidate does not fully meet all the selection criteria, the appointment may be made on the grade 7 scale (29,099 – 35,788 pa), with the possibility of  moving up to grade 8 during year 2 or 3 of the appointment.

The successful candidate will have expertise in two of the following areas and will pursue advanced research in at least one of them:

*Media and democratization

*Media in post-authoritarian regimes

*Media and democratic accountability

*Media and political campaigns

Candidates are expected to have either a doctorate in political science and significant experience and understanding of media/journalism empirical research and theory; or a doctorate in media/journalism studies and significant experience and understanding of political research and theory. A strong early-career record of academic publication and conference presentations is expected.

The successful candidate will be housed within the Reuters Institute to engage in publishable comparative research on one or more of these themes as applied to two or more countries or a region and to contribute to the development of the Institute's research activities and scholarly output. He or she will have some teaching opportunities in the Department of Politics and International Relations."He or she will be expected to engage in scholarly publishing throughout the period of the appointment that will contribute to the Department of Politics and International Relations" submission to the Research Excellence Framework review process.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. To apply for this role and for further details, including the job description and selection criteria, please click on the link below:

www.politics.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

The closing date for applications is midday on Wednesday 19th October 2011.

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Training for Leadership, decision making, skills, comunication, oration power, team-building and domination techniquees. Elegibility criteria: Advanced English. Admission open till October 15, 2011.

Study in Italy: PhD Studentships Database Technologies in the DIS Centre

PHD POSITIONS AT DIS CENTRE, FREE UNIV. OF BOZEN-BOLZANO, ITALY

The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy, offers an opening for 10 positions. 2 of these positions are offered in the area of database technologies in
the DIS Centre.

DEADLINE: October 14, 2011

A PhD studentship amounts to 51,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. By working as teaching assistant you can increase your salary. Substantial funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops.

Relevant PhD topics in the database area include the following:
* Query processing in spatial network databases
* Advanced processing of temporal aggregation queries
* Clustering time-varying contentАав┬а
* Similarity operators in database systems
* Data warehousing and mining

We seek highly motivated PhD candidates with a good background knowledge in databases. Good proficiency in English is expected, as well as an outstanding M.Sc. degree. Candidates should be able to work well independently as well as in small teams, and have excellent
communication and social skills.

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano was founded in 1997 as a free, state-recognised university. As a central-European, internationally oriented educational establishment it acts as an important bridge between the German and Italian cultural and economic spheres. Most of the teaching staff have an international professional background. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano offers degrees in Economics and Management, Education, Design and Art, and Science and Technology. With its almost 100,000 German-speaking and Italian-speaking inhabitants, Bozen-Bolzano, as the capital of the province of Alto Adige-South Tirol, is a multilingual business and tourist centre located in a beautiful setting in the Dolomite Alps area.

For additional information about the PhD program, the studentship, and
the application, please visit <http://www.unibz.it/en/public/research/phd/prospectivePhdstudents.html>.

If you are interested or need further information, please contact prof. Johann Gamper:
gamper@inf.unibz.it
http://www.inf.unibz.it/~gamper

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Study in Canada: Chris Woodward Brand Marketing Award at Wilfrid Laurier University

Full-time Undergraduate Scholarship for students in Business & Economics  for  Canadian Applicants at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada-2011

Study Subject(s):Business & Economics
Course Level:Undergraduate
Scholarship Provider: Chris Woodward by family
Scholarship can be taken at: Canada

Eligibility:
-Full time undergraduate students, not in first year, in Laurier’s School of Business &
-Economics with good academic achievement (minimim cumulative GPA of 9.0, B+).
-Students will have an interest in and commitment to brand marketing and preference will be given to students who are looking to pursue a career in this area.
-Applicants must have demonstrated financial need, and are encouraged to indicate on their application how perseverence has helped them to overcome obstacles in their pursuit of post secondary education.
-The recipients must be Canadian citizens, Permanent Residents (landed immigrants) or Protected Persons, and long term residents of Ontario.

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: Endowed award; established in memory of Chris Woodward by family, friends and colleagues. The award will recognize exceptional students in Laurier’s School of Business and Economics with a keen interest in brand marketing. This is the application for competitive scholarships and awards for undergraduate students. This completed application is required for all award opportunities which state that an application is required, with the exception of opportunities which specifically indicate that a “distinct” application is required

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: 17 October 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application

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Happy Friendship Day, FRIENDS!

Dear Friends,

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY!

You are invited to the morning DANCE PARTY tomorrow at 8 am. with captain Jaison Thomas.

Here is the address.

 

 

 

Advanced English & Business Communication Coaching Class in Indore

This training game for Business Communication I designed several hours ago and implemented in the LSPT class in Incisive Indore.

OK, you might hardly be acquainted with two following terms:

LSPT – Leadership Skills & Personality Development Training. Attendants: bachelors, masters’ students, young professionals.

Incisive Indore – Human Resource Training Enterprise, a training centre located in Indore, Central India.

I’m willing to share this training game with everyone who is willing to innovate around, think and perform on the spot and learn non-stop together with students whatever the age. Please use it for your benefit and for the sake of your personal and professional growth, I AM happy to contribute. You can make me even happier by posting your feedback, activity’s outcomes, surprising happenings during the game flow. Just comment or contact me.

This training game will say no new word in educational science. The game’s design is based on my corporate experience, knowledge of other training games for various age groups / education levels, basic understanding of social psychology, global and local markets structure, human nature and Indian specifics.

Read full Game's description below the pictures.

The Task on the Board.

Painting Money.

Marketplace Activity.

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Countng Profit.

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Feedback and Reflection.

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Business Equals Life

Duration: 40 minutes, including:

Writing on the board (trainer) and drawing money (students) – 3 minutes.

Task presentation and instructions – 2 minutes.

Marketplace activity – 20 minutes.

Counting profit / loss – 1 minute.

Feedback, results, reflection – 5 minutes.

Discussion – 10 minutes.

Equipment:

“Money” drawn by students, ten banknotes per person.

Ready-made pictures of money may be used, but (a) developing money individually by students enhance participants’ creativity and involvement, (b) cash flow may be tracked during the follow-up discussion by analyzing whose money everyone has got in the end.

Preparation:

Relevant business / finance vocabulary, according to the age group and education level of students.

Intro Task (briefly written on the board):

According to the number of students choose various areas of business, one per student. For classes with 10+ strength two-three students per business is ok. Example for the class of seven students:

1. Food and beverages / catering.

2.   Transportation and moving.

3.  Office for rent.

4.  IT: software and web development.

5.  BPO.

6.  Education.

7.  Banking and insurance.

Game flow:

Every participant is playing an entrepreneur with the same amount of initial capital (ten banknotes ten thousand rupees each, total one hundred thousand rupees – in India they call it One Lakh Rupees). During the free market activity students are supposed to sell services of their businesses to each other, negotiate and make deals.

Important notice:

1.     Maximize profit.

2.     Minimize expenses.

3. Three deals for every entrepreneur are mandatory.