January, 2011 | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 112

The McFarlane PhD Scholarship 2011, UK: History

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One scholarship will be awarded to the best full time applicant who meets the criteria below and is accepted onto a PhD in History. The value of the award is £15,000 per year for the duration of the recipient’s PhD degree programme (usually three years subject to satisfactory progress).
The Scholarship will cover the UK/EU rate of tuition fees, a stipend and research allowance (£450).
The scholarship is funded by a leading financier and his wife who have pledged their support for a new historical centre at the University of Edinburgh, which will study the influence of Scots abroad. Investment fund manager Alan McFarlane and his wife, Anne, have donated £1 Million to the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, to support two PhD scholarships in perpetuity and provide 10 undergraduate access bursaries to help students in financial need. The gift is believed to be the largest private donation to a history-related project at a British University. The McFarlanes are both Edinburgh graduates.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 May 2011

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Junior Research Positions at HiLASE, Czech Republic: Laser Physics

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HiLASE (High-average power pulsed lasers) is a brand new national project aimed at development of novel type of diode-pumped solid-state lasers (DPSSL) intended for industrial and scientific applications. The project realization team from the Institute of Physics AS CR, v.v.i. is seeking a candidate for the position of: Junior Researcher

Key Responsibilities:
1. Realization of particular research activity delegated by Senior Researcher.
2. Advising and monitoring the PhD Student.
3. Leading the experimental work.
4. Participation of designing of concepts and looking for the potential applications.
5. Publishing, participating on the conference, trainings and participation in preparation of the tender documentation.

Key Requirements:
1. PhD in Laser Physics.
2. Interests in laser physics.
3. English language on a very good level (written and spoken).
4. Strong motivation for work and loyalty.
5. Excellent communication and organizational skills.
6. Team player, feel a sense of accomplishment, supporting the team.
7. Willing to travel
Scholarship Application Deadline: 01/02/2011
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Open PhD and Postdoc Positions, Exascale Information Management, Fribourg-Switzerland

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The eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg has several openings for Ph.D. students and Postdocs starting now. XI is a brand new lab focusing on creating next-generation information management infrastructures for scientific, semantic, and social data.

We are looking for highly qualified individuals with a MSc or a PhD in Computer Science (or related areas), interested in inventing the future of information management for new application domains (such as for eScience, the Social Web, or the Data Web). Candidates must have strong analytical and programming skills, a good command of the English language, and a genuine interest in designing, building and publishing innovative approaches and systems to manage new types of data in very large-scale environments.

Salary and social benefits are extremely competitive (salaries start at 41K CHF for new Ph.D. students and 81K CHF for postdocs, 1CHF=1USD). XI is supported by a generous grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and offers top-notch working conditions and cutting-edge hardware infrastructures. The PhD student or PostDoc will be able to join existing projects but also to establish his or her own research direction with the help of the other lab members. Current projects include building main-memory systems bridging the gap between transactional and analytical tools (project in partnership with MIT and the Hasso Plattner Institute), designing new algorithms to mine very large Web logs (in cooperation with VeriSign), and devising new techniques to store and process very large scientific arrays (with MIT, as part of the SciDB project http://www.scidb.org ). New projects focusing on the Social Web and the Data Web will begin shortly, in partnership with leading companies and universities in Europe.

The lab is hosted by the Faculty of Science at the University of Fribourg. The faculty is currently experiencing a formidable expansion and recently received the largest-ever donation made to a Swiss university. Ideally situated in the heart of Switzerland and at the foot of the Alps, the city of Fribourg lies on the linguistic border between the French and German-speaking parts of the country. In addition to being recognized as a first-class location for business and education, Fribourg is also a delightful and exceptional place to live and is often ranked first for quality of life in Western Switzerland.

Scholarship Application Deadline: Contact Employer

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