Undergraduate International Scholarships @University of Queensland, Australia

Description: The scholarships are available for international students who have completed senior high school overseas equivalent to Queensland Year 12 (eg. A Levels, International Baccalaureate, etc). The scholarship is not available to students who have already commenced a postsecondary qualification or who are already studying in Australia. The successful applicants must be classed as an international student in Australia (Australian permanent residents and Australian citizens are not eligible).
Eligibility:• Must have a score that equates to a Queensland Tertiary Education rank of 96. Please visit http://www.uq.edu.au/study/scholarships/international/undergraduate for International equivalencies
• Must not be recipients of another scholarship
• Must be applying for the full program – not an articulation or requesting credit (other than the IB credit)
• Must have a full unconditional offer
• The application must be complete including a personal statement
• Excludes quota programs

Deadline: 31 October the prior year for a Semester 1 commencement
30 April the same year for a Semester 2 commencement
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Postdoctoral Fellowship for project MANTLE RHEOLOGY@ PIMM (Process and Engineering in Mechanics and Materials),France- Subject: micro mechanical modeling

Description: The post-doc will be involved in the micromechanical modeling at the polycrystal scale. The aim is to integrate into the polycrystal model slip-system resistances inferred from experimental data, ab initio calculations, and Dislocation Dynamics (DDD). The used polycrystal model will be based on mean-field homogenization methods (self-consistent scheme associated with the “Second-Order” linearization procedure of Ponte Castañeda), although numerical computations from full-field methods could be also performed if necessary. Micromechanical modeling of such material is a challenging task since all mineral phases comprising the upper mantle exhibit an extreme viscoplastic anisotropy at the grain scale, with three or less known independent slip systems.
Deadline: January 2011
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Fellowship @ World Press Institute, USA -Subject: Any subject

Description: The WPI fellowship is offered to 10 journalists from countries around the world. The 2011 program will begin in mid August and end in mid-October. The fellows will spend a month in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and then travel to several U.S. cities, including New York and Washington, D.C., for briefings, interviews and visits. They will returned to Minnesota for the final week of the program. See the 2010 Schedule for information on the 2010 fellowship and example of WPI events.
Eligibility:At least five (5) years full-time employment in print, broadcast, or online journalism.
Journalists can work for news or editorial departments of newspapers, wire services, radio, television, web sites, online publications or magazines of general public interest.
Photojournalists, editorial cartoonists, columnists and broadcast producers are also eligible.
Those who supervise journalists are eligible providing that they also have at least five years as a working journalist.
Any journalism-related work completed as a university student does not count toward experience. People who work in public relations or at organizations whose primary business is not the media are not eligible.
• Must be currently employed as a non U.S. journalist working outside of the United States.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English.
• Potential for leadership

Deadline: 31 January 2011
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(PhD)Research Scientist Position @ International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai- Subject:Land Data Assimilation System

Description: The position is full-time fixed term (initially six months with the possibility of extension) with a competitive international package. The position is based at the ICBA campus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.This research will generate data and scientific insight on regional surface- and ground-water resources.
Requirements:* Expertise in analysing GRACE, and if possible MODIS and TRMM data as well.
* Experience in working with numerical models (hydrology, hydrogeology, SVAT or climate).
* proven ability to handle/analyze spatio-temporal data sets relating to environmental monitoring and models as well as to remote sensing.
* Expertise in scientific programming (ideally FORTRAN, Unix or PERL).
* Experience with ENVI and ArcGIS.
Qualifications:Masters-degree level education and advanced skills in Remote Sensing, Hydrological Science, Environmental Science or a related discipline.
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Deadline: 31 January 2011
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Postdoc Fellowships(Two) in Automated Damage Localization Systems for Civil Engineering Structures @ Université Libre de Bruxelles(ULB),Belgium- Subject: Mechanical or Civil engineering

Description:. This project deals with the next level of SHM which is damage localization and focuses on the problem of cracking in prestressed concrete. The challenge is to design a data-based damage localization system based on output-only ambient vibrations. The main ingredients of the proposed method are: (i) the use of very large strain sensor networks, (ii) the development of automated and efficient data processing methods based on local spatial filters or several layers of spatio-temporal filters, and (iii) alarm triggering techniques based on unsupervised learning methods. The major innovation in this project is the use of advanced computational techniques for the creation of a large data set of virtual campaigns which are used for the design and optimization of the SHM system. In addition to these virtual campaigns, experimental developments are also foreseen, with a specific emphasis on the evaluation of different techniques for dynamic strain measurements.
Requirements: The candidates should hold a PhD in Mechanical or Civil engineering and should not have been working previously in Belgium. For the first position, experience in numerical modeling preferably in the field of non-linear mechanics or vibrations is necessary. For the second position, experience in experimental vibration testing and instrumentation is required.
Deadline: January 1st 2011
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PhD Scholarship for Doctorate program on Biomedical Signal Processing @ Laboratory for Computer Science, Signals and Systems in Sophia-Antipolis,France

Essential: Prospective candidates will require a strong theoretical background in mathematics, statistics and signal processing. Previous experience with biomedical signals, in particular the ECG, and familiarity with cardiac electrophysiology will also be highly desirable assets.
The Computer Science, Signals and Systems Laboratory in Sophia Antipolis (www.i3s.unice.fr): The Laboratoire d’Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis (I3S) constitutes a joint research unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (UNS). The I3S Lab is located in the sunny French Riviera, at the heart of the Sophia Antipolis technology park, sometimes referred to as the “European Silicon Valley”. The park is composed of a large number of international companies and research institutes (such as INRIA and Eurecom) in the general fields of information and communication science and technology (STIC), biological and environmental sciences, and chemistry. The I3S Lab features a broad multidisciplinary portfolio associating pure and applied research, and encompassing diverse research areas in the field of STIC such as signal and image processing, robotics, communications, control theory, optimization, algorithmics and combinatorics, software technology and hardware architectures, as well as their applications.
An important part of the research carried out by the Signal team at I3S concerns the processing, analysis and modeling of biomedical signals. Its main areas of interest include cardiac electrical activity (comprising both surface ECG and endocavitary recordings, atrial and ventricular fibrillation, body surface potential mapping, and relationships with sleep apnea), cardiorespiratory system coupling (both in effort and in rest conditions, rhythm variability), brain electrical activity (EEG, sleep microstructure, early and late evoked potentials), muscular electrical activity (surface EMG), and auditory conditions (hearing aids, cochlear implants, tinnitus). In trying to meet the medical demand, the group has also produced a number of theoretical results related to the modeling of physiological systems as well as general-purpose signal processing tools for shape analysis and clustering, blind source separation, and time delay estimation. These researches are carried out in close collaboration with clinical and industrial partners.
Starting date: January 2011
Requirement: Please send a CV, list of BSc/MSc marks, contact details of three references, and a motivation letter to zarzoso-at-i3s.unice.fr.
 Deadline: Contact Employer
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