Archive for August, 2010
Ireland : PhD Studentships in Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
Ireland : PhD position in Exascale computing at the Heterogeneous Computing Laboratory (HCL)
The Heterogeneous Computing Laboratory at University College Dublin (UCD), as part of the IBM Exascale activity (http://www-05.ibm.com/ie/emerging_business_centre/exascale.html), is seeking a suitable postdoctoral fellow and PhD candidate.
These positions will be co-funded by IRCSET and IBM through IRCSET’s Enterprise Partnership Scheme. Further details on the Enterprise Partnership Scheme can be found athttp://www.ircset.ie/Default.aspx?tabid=58. Applicants must meet IRCSET’s eligibility criteria and will be assessed independently by IRCSET.
The Exascale activity will adopt a Stream Computing paradigm and will utilize streaming hardware and techniques – some of which will be developed as part of this activity. Read the rest of this entry »
Ireland : PhD Position Discovering Anomalous Structure in Graphs
The Clique Strategic Research Cluster at University College Dublin is seeking a PhD candidate to work on the problem of identifying anomalous structure in graphs. The candidate, in collaboration with other researchers, will investigate graph-based approaches to uncovering anomalies. The graph-based approaches can be categorized as either supervised or unsupervised. In the supervised variant a user has some preconceived ideas of the structure and properties of the anomalies that may exist. In the unsupervised variant the system will automatically suggest some initial anomalous structures to the user which he or she can then refine. Both approaches are useful, for example, when searching for fraud and suspicious activity in graphs that model financial transactions. The solutions will be tested and evaluated on real-world data provided by our industry partners.
Clique is a Science Foundation Ireland funded research cluster that is investigating a range of scalable computational techniques for the analysis and visualisation of graphs. There will be extensive opportunities for collaboration with other Clique researchers. Read the rest of this entry »
Sweden : PhD student position in the Field of Computer Architecture
The Computer Systems group at Chalmers conducts research on high-performance and low-power computing, including the design and analysis of 1) efficient architectures for mainstream down to embedded platforms, 2) systems-level software to exploit interesting hardware platforms, and 3) verifiable tools to enable more efficient, accurate design space exploration.
Chalmers is a partner in the HiPEAC European Network of Excellence.
The European ERA (Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures) project studies tradeoffs among reconfigurability, performance, and power within the context of heterogeneous, multi-core systems. Chalmers efforts address the balance between performance and power consumption (at all levels), and reconfigurable memory hierarchy design, in particular. We are recruiting for one PhD position. Read the rest of this entry »
Sweden : PhD-position in the physics of glass-forming materials
An unsolved key question in condensed matter physics concerns the understanding of why and how materials go from fluid to disorded dynamically arrested states, so called glasses? Any liquid that is cooled fast enough to avoid the ordered crystalline state will form a glass which has a molecular structure almost identical to that of the liquid. Why the molecular motions in the liquid slow down so dramatically upon cooling is not well understood and glass formation thus remains an unsolved mystery of solid and soft condensed matter physics.
Materials that undergo transitions from fluid to disordered solid states are common and important both in nature and in man-made materials. Examples of such materials include gels, colloidal suspensions, granular systems, emulsions, foams, pastes and even biological cells. Despite the widely different nature of these materials, the transitions often show strong similarities, in turn suggesting a common physical description. The work involved in this position will adress some of the key open questions. Read the rest of this entry »
France : PhD program of the Paris School of Neuroscience
PhD program of the Paris School of Neuroscience provides an outstanding multidisciplinary curriculum to students through seminar series, lab rotations, and research training in top neuroscience laboratories of the Paris region. The faculty includes internationally recognized experts across the large field of the neurosciences from basic molecular and cellular studies, computational science to brain imaging and clinical research.
Sweden : PhD Student in Applied Mechanics
The Department of Applied Mechanics conducts research in the areas of vehicle design and mechanical engineering. The research is often carried out together with national and international academic and industrial partners, and it concerns both fundamental and applied problems.
The research at the Division of Dynamics at the Department of Applied Mechanics is directed towards various dynamic, vibration and wave propagation problems, also with coupling to other physical phenomena such as wear or piezoelectricity. Both fundamental and applied research is performed, and although the main thrust is towards modelling and numerical treatment, experimental activities also play an important role. A large part of the applied research is performed within the competence centre CHARMEC (CHAlmers Railway MEChanics), see www.chalmers.se/charmec. Read the rest of this entry »