Short-term Grants for PhD Students in Information Structure at University of Potsdam and Humboldt University Berlin Germany 2011

Study Subject(s):Information Structure
Course Level:PhD
Scholarship Provider: DFG
Scholarship can be taken at: Germany

Eligibility:

•Candidates are expected to hold a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Linguistics and have a research focus on information structure from a theoretical (syntactic, phonological, semantic), typological, diachronic, variationist, computerlinguistic or psycho/neuro-linguistic perspective, which is ideally manifest in earlier research activities in the form of presentations/ publications or a carefully worked out plan for a dissertation project.

Scholarship Open for International Students:Yes

Scholarship Description: There are six short-term grants (max. 1 year) for PhD students available in the Integrated Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 632 Information Structure at the University of Potsdam and Humboldt University Berlin The grants are meant to enable PhD candidates with an interest in information structure to carry out some of their research in the Collaborative Research Centre, which has played a prominent role in the international research on information structure over the past 8 years. Of particular interest to the research centre are PhD candidates from outside Germany and/or with a focus on lesser-studied non-European languages that will help to extend the cross-linguistic coverage and will ideally help to build up stable cooperations with the applicants’ home universities. The research center also encourages candidates from German universities with a migrant background to apply.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31.08.2011
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PhD Scholarships within the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), Future Urban Mobility (FM) IRG, Singapore Read more: PhD Schol

PhD scholarships for projects within the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), Future Urban Mobility (FM) IRG, to be supervised by NTU and MIT faculty.

Study Subject(s):Future urban mobility systems
Course Level:PhD
Scholarship Provider: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), Future Urban Mobility (FM) IRG
Scholarship can be taken at: Singapore

Eligibility:
Excellent Bsc, GRE and TOEFL scores

Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes
Scholarship Description:The Future Urban Mobility (FM) Interdisciplinary Research Group is the fourth and most recent IRG established within the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). The FM IRG`s activities began officially on July 1, 2010.

The goal of the FM IRG is to develop, in and beyond Singapore, new paradigms for the planning, design and operation of future urban mobility systems. Innovative urban mobility systems, aimed at both passengers and freight, will materially enhance sustainability and societal well-being on a global scale.

This is a particularly opportune time to address this topic due to a confluence of relevant developments: major advances in computing, communications, and sensing technologies; the great progress that has been made in recent years in our ability to model, evaluate and optimize urban mobility systems; the growing importance of environmental sustainability issues; the aging of physical infrastructure in developed countries and the need for massive new infrastructure in less developed ones; and the vast economic stimulus that can be provided by the modernization and renewal of urban mobility systems worldwide.


The FM IRG will:

* harness and enhance promising networked computing and control (NCC) technology-enabled innovations that may contribute to improved future urban mobility;
* develop decision models that can be applied to support various novel mobility concepts, such as the pervasive use of real-time information, mobility-on-demand services and green logistics;
* investigate the potential and impacts of these innovations and decision models; and
* assess their implications for urban development and urban planning organizations and institutions.

The concrete project is the following:

Real-time Path Tracking/Predictions and On-Demand Route Guidance Under Uncertainty
Develop algorithms that use real-time data to (i) track and predict paths in dynamic transportation networks, and (ii) provide on-demand route guidance under uncertainty.

How to Apply: Please send detailed curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, three references, GRE and TOEFL scores, and relevant publications (if applicable) electronically to:Prof. Justin Dauwels(recruitment-at-dauwels.com)

Scholarship Application Deadline: October 15, 2011

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