International (non-EU) Tuition Fee Scholarships (PhD or MPhil) in Mathematical Sciences

School of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Nottingham is offering awards of two full Tuition Fee Scholarships for a new international student registering on a research degree programme in the School of Mathematical Sciences at The University of Nottingham from September 2009. The scholarships are for each year of a PhD or MPhil research programme, subject to satisfactory progress.

To be eligible to apply for these scholarships, students must:

• have an upper second honours degree in a mathematics or mathematics-related subject, or its equivalent
• be holding a conditional or unconditional offer of a place on a full-time research degree programme in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nottingham to commence studies from September 2009
• be classified as an ‘overseas’ student for fee purposes

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The Taiwan International Graduate Program is a Ph.D. program, started in 2002, by Academia Sinica, the foremost research institution of Taiwan. In cooperation with top universities in Taiwan, Academia Sinica offers advanced, inter-disciplinary Ph.D. Programs, in nine fields that span the natural and physical sciences, as well as computational linguistics. TIGP students will learn in all-English teaching and research environments, and enjoy access to world-class faculty and state-of-the-art research facilities at Academia Sinica and partner universities. All applicants who are admitted to TIGP will receive a fellowship from Academia Sinica. Stipend levels are about USD 11,000 per year, and will be awarded for the first three years.

TIGP Application Announcement for 2009
TIGP is now accepting applications for admission to the 2009 fall semester, and applications are due before 31 March, 2009. TIGP offers the following nine Ph.D. programs:

1. Chemical Biology and Molecular Biophysics
2. Molecular Science and Technology
3. Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences
4. Molecular and Cell Biology
5. Bioinformatics
6. Nano Science and Technology
7. Molecular Medicine
8. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
9. Earth System Science

No application fee is required. Please send the completed application to:

Admissions Office
Taiwan International Graduate Program
No. 75, Lane 12, Section 2, Academia Road , Nankang District,
Taipei City11529 , Taiwan, R. O. C.

TIGP now also offers the option to apply online for admission to the program. If you wish to learn more about our online application system, please via the website at http://db1n.sinica.edu.tw/textdb/tigp/

For more information, please contact Nancy Yang/ Alice Lee at +886-2-27898050/ +886-2-2789-9696.
Email:nancyy[ at ]gate.sinica.edu.tw / alicelee[ at ]gate.sinica.edu.tw

Closing date: 31 March, 2009

TIGP website: http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/applying.html

The Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies invites applications for the academic year 2009/2010. Six academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences collaborate in offering a structured curriculum. The doctoral program is interdisciplinary in its approach and focuses on those social transformations impacting the United States and Canada at the beginning of the 21st century. Areas of emphasis include domestic and foreign policy, economic development, ethnic identity and relations, as well as recent transformations in media, art, literature, culture, and religion.

Applicants interested in pursuing a doctorate with an emphasis in North American Studies must have a completed degree (M.A. or the equivalent) with above average marks in one of the following disciplines: American Cultural Studies, American Literature, History, Political Science, Sociology and Economics.

Grants are awarded for a period of one year with the possibility of two annual extensions. The language of instruction is English.

Scholarships amount to ca. 1.500 € per month.

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Erasmus Mundus MSc course in MathMods (Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications)

Website. http://www.mathmods.eu

Scholarships:
Several Erasmus Mundus scholarships are offered by the European Commission to non-European students. These scholarships amount to a maximum of EUR 42,000.00 to cover the two-year expenses and are granted to the most promising applicants. A limited number of scholarships are also available for European students.

Institution.
The MSc course is offered by a consortium of five universities in Europe,coordinated by the

• University of L’Aquila in Italy (UAQ) and involves other four leading institutions in Europe:
• Autonomous University of Barcelona in Catalonia (UAB),
• University of Hamburg in Germany (UHH),
• Gdansk University of Technology in Poland (GUT),
• University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis in France (UNSA).

Aims.
Mathematical modelling lies at the heart of most current technological innovations and has become a fundamental tool in many fields of engineering. Essentially multidisciplinary in its applications, mathematical modelling and simulation is in its own right a key technology which is bound to increase its presence within efficient industries and businesses. The proposed programme reflects this multidisciplinarity, drawing on the unifying mathematical aspects from the various and often separate engineering disciplines

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Regulation of the Drosophila Cellular Immune Response by the Nucleokinesis Complex

Evidence is mounting that during attachment or encapsulation events leukocytes, platelets, and insect haemocytes use the same adhesion complexes as epithelial and neuronal cells. In mammalian neuronal cells a nucleokinesis complex regulates nuclear migration. There is mounting evidence that this same apparatus is important in regulating Drosophila circulating immunosurveillance cell (haemocyte) activity.

The key question of this study is to ask how the nucleokinesis complex regulates embryonic haemocyte migration.

Eligibility:
Fees will be paid at UK/EU rates only. Candidates must be UK citizens or EU citizens who have resided in the UK for three years, and should hold, or expect to obtain, a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree or a Masters degree or an equivalent qualification

Commences October 2009

Application: For more information email Dr. Michael Williams at m.j.williams[ at ]abdn.ac.uk or visit http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ibes/staff/m.j.williams