Educational scholarships to enable young Australians to spend a period of time in a foreign country to study the language and culture of that country.This scholarship is offered annually to 10 people. Open for applications from August 30, 2010 until October 1, 2010.

The value of this scholarship is AUD20000 (maximum per award). This award is to be used for accommodation, living expenses and travel. This scholarship is paid as a one off for the period of 1 year. Continued

TWAS-DBT Postgraduate Fellowship Programme India 2010 – The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Ministry of Science and Technology, India, and TWAS have instituted a fellowship programme for foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in Biotechnology.

TWAS-DBT Postgraduate Programme Details

• TWAS-DBT Postgraduate Fellowships are tenable at key biotechnology research institutions in India for a period of up to five years.
• Applicants may be registered for a PhD degree in their home country, or may enrol in a PhD course at a host laboratory/institute in India. To help candidates in their choice of a suitable host institution a list of biotechnology institutes in India is available here: List_Biotechn_India.pdf. However, candidates are free to choose an Indian biotechnology institution that does not appear on the list.
• DBT will provide a monthly stipend to cover for living costs, food and health insurance. The monthly stipend will not be convertible into foreign currency. In addition, the fellowship holder will receive a house rent allowance.
• The language of instruction is English Continued

PhD Fellowships in Applied Mathematics Germany 2010 – The International Graduate College “Stochastics and Real World Models” Beijing-Bielefeld advertises fellowships for PhD students, starting Oct 1st, 2010. The program is organized by the Bielefeld University Mathematics Department in cooperation with the Departments of Economics and Physics, the research institutions IMW and BiBoS, and together with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (partner institutions: IAM, AMSS, GUCAS). Doctorate degrees will be awarded by one of the three Departments of Bielefeld University. Continued

PhD Studentships in Adaptation and Visualisation, Ireland 2010 – Applications are invited for two funded Ph.D. positions in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Research Group (KDEG), Discipline of Intelligent Systems, School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). KDEG enjoys a world-class reputation in the areas of adaptation research, intelligent systems and knowledge driven information systems. Successful candidates will have an excellent academic record (a postgraduate qualification, e.g. M.Sc., or a II.1 or higher in a relevant primary degree) in Computer Science or related discipline, strong communication skills and a proficiency for software development. Closing date for applications is 16th July 2010.

Experience of at least one of the following areas is required:

• Web Based Personalisation and Adaptive Systems
• Information Visualisation Technologies
• Semantic Web Technologies
• Web 2.0 based eLearning Systems
• Web systems development/Engineering Continued

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mesoscale Modeling of Nuclear Fuel at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU-Poly, Brooklyn, NY. Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position in the Computational Mechanics Laboratory at NYU-Poly.

The selected postdoctoral fellow will participate in a vibrant interdisciplinary research group and will be involved in a research effort which aims at modeling the behavior of nuclear fuel under extreme conditions. Computational mechanics and theory will be the principal tool of investigation. Continued