[Australia] Oslo Peace Scholarship, Australian National University

The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo and The Australian National University`s Department of International Relations, in partnership with Bjørknes College, are offering a scholarship for Master of International Affairs specialising in Peace and Conflict.

The program brings together academics at the forefront of international relations, peace,and conflict research from two sides of the globe. Students spend one semester at Bjørknes College in Norway with faculty from the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) pursuing courses in Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building, Ethics of Peace and War, and Gender and War. The international relations courses are taken at ANU in Canberra. Participants have full access to the specialist libraries of the Nobel Institute and PRIO.

The Oslo Peace Scholarship pays the tuition fee and provides a living allowance for both Oslo and Canberra. Full details available here. http://rspas.anu.edu.au/gsia/oslops.htm

Closing date for receipt of complete application for scholarship is 30 April 2010 for applications to start in August 2010 and 29 April 2011 for applications to start in August 2011.

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The School of Civil Engineering at The University of Sydney offers a scholarship for a highly qualified student to undertake full-time research leading to a PhD in Environmental Fluid Mechanics. This research project is aimed to investigate the dynamics of biomineral suspended particle matter (SPM) in turbulently-stirred waters, with a particular focus on the interaction between microparticles made of cohesive mineral and micro-organisms in nutrient-controlled conditions. The PhD candidate is expected to have a strong background in fluid mechanics, physics or mathematics, and be interested in multidisciplinary approaches involving hydrology, biogeochemistry, and nutrient cycling. This opportunity is for commencement in 2010 Semester 1. Both local and international students are welcome to apply, and international student tuition fees will be covered as part of this scholarship. Applicants must also apply for University-wide scholarships where eligible. Reference Number: 4511 Study Subject: Civil Engineering- Environmental Fluid Mechanics Web Address: http://agile2.ucc.usyd.edu.au/ro/opportunities/scholarships/156 Provided By: The University of Sydney To be undertaken at: The University of Sydney.

Through the Endeavour Awards, the Australian Government provides opportunities for high achieving international students, researchers and professionals to undertake short or long term study, research and professional development in Australia in a broad range of disciplines. The Endeavour Postgraduate Awards provide financial support for international students for up to 3 years to undertake a postgraduate qualification at a Masters or PhD level either by coursework or research in any field of study in Australia. Total Award Value: up to $173,500 Award Duration: Up to 2 years for a Masters Up to 3 years for a PhD The Endeavour Postgraduate Awards aim to: enable high achieving international students to undertake a postgraduate qualification either by coursework or research in their chosen field of study in Australia strengthen bilateral ties between Australia and the participating countries showcase Australia’s education sector strengthen mutual understanding between the people of Australia and Award Holders’ home countries build international linkages and networks.

Applications are open to citizens of all overseas countries (excluding New Zealand), who are commencing full-time study in 2009 for a higher degree by research. No age restriction applies for applicants. To be eligible to apply for the EIPRS, you must: be an overseas student who is eligible to undertake a higher degree by research candidature within UTS’s areas of research strengths, and be able to commence in full time enrolment for the first time in 2009, unless: you commenced your HDR during 2008 but, due to the timing of your applications and subsequent enrolment were not able to apply for the 2008 EIPRS, or you have terminated any previous HDR enrolment within six months of commencement not hold a research qualification regarded by UTS as equivalent to an Australian Research Doctorate degree or, if undertaking a Research by Master degree, not hold a research qualification regarded as equivalent to or higher than an Australian Research Master’s degree, and not have held an Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) scholarship within the two years prior to commencing the EIPRS, and not be receiving a scholarship for which course tuition fee is a component under any scholarship scheme to which the Australian Government makes a substantial contribution Eligibility for admission PhD Degree Applicants shall: hold a Bachelor’s degree with First or Second Class Honours, Division 1 or a Master’s Degree by research of the University of Technology, Sydney; or possess an equivalent qualification. In addition, applicants will be required to provide satisfactory evidence of their ability to undertake advanced research appropriate to their PhD program. For further information on eligibility for admission to postgraduate research degrees see Section 5.8.5 of the UTS rules for PhD students. Master’s Degree by Research Applicants shall: hold a Bachelor’s Degree of the University of Technology, Sydney; or possess an equivalent qualification; or submit such other evidence of general and professional qualifications as will satisfy the Academic Board that the applicant possesses the educational preparation and capacity to pursue graduate studies. For further information on eligibility for admission to postgraduate research degrees, see Section 5.8.4 of UTS rules for Master’s students.

Several PhD studentship opportunities are available at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, for outstanding candidates. Biofuels have much potential as a low greenhouse-gas replacement to fossil fuels. To realise this potential, internal combustion engines need to be optimised for biofuel operation. Applications are sought for PhD studentships to develop advanced Large Eddy Simulation models for internal combustion engines running biofuels. Topics include: knock in ethanol and flex-fuel spark-ignition engines, autoignition of ethanol stratified-charge compression ignition engines. Both projects involve collaboration with leading experimental groups, and working with large-scale Direct Numerical Simulation data-sets. Candidates should possess an excellent grasp of CFD, chemistry, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, computational methods and programming. Direct experience with IC-engine CFD is highly desirable. Scholarships cover A$20,000/annum towards fees, and provide a monthly stipent of A$2,500. Please note that these scholarships are highly competitive. Successful scholarship recipients typically have an exceptional academic record that is demonstrably within the top few percent at a good school.

Travel. Experience. Contribute World Nomads and the National Geographic Channel gives an exceptional student a chance to make concessions with renowned wildlife photographer Jason Edwards (http://www.bio-images.com/tempo/)! A brief is to photograph dryland Festival (http://www.aridland saustralia.org /) and the Great Hughenden Camel Race Endurance - 160 km endurance race on camels to work in stunningly beautiful porcupine Outback Gorge area in Queensland, Australia. Porcupine Gorge Queensland, graphic coutesy Tourism Queensland. As part of this job, you are going to work together and receive mentoring from Jason Edwards, to gain valuable practical experience in everything from shot set up, technique and composition to look at his long-diverse experience as a reward for the photographer. To help you take professional photos, the scholarship recipient will receive an Olympus E3 digital camera with 14-54mm f2.8-3.5 Standard Wide Zoom Lens plus a new Lenovo Ideapad Y-510 laptop computer to store your photos and keep your journal. Scholarship recipients `s top photos will be published on the National Geographic Channel` s website (http://www.national geographic.com.au /), where they will see thousands of tourists worldwide, and offer you a once-in-term chance to get your foot in the door of one of the most revered intelligence organizations in the world! The scholarship also includes airfare from its nearest international airport, accommodation, travel insurance, visa costs and subsistence. Highly valued for its wildlife, landscape and remote photography, Jason Edwards represented by National Geographic Image Collection. What do you think that doing half the battle `All we fly you from your country of residence for Longreach, Australia. You `All should be available in Australia from August 19-26, 2008. The festival dates 22.23 and August 24, 2008. At Hughenden, you will be working together Jason Edwards photographing race on camels, the festival activities and the local landscape. Your appointment will include monitoring and assistance Jason, as well as perform their own photographic work. This implies a very early morning hours and long days, with the perfect shot, this is not a pool-side holiday! You will keep a daily diary of your time on the trip, and upload this World Nomads travel magazine, including photos, you `ve taken. On your return you to submit your top photos National Geographic Channel for publication on www.natgeotv.com.au. First of all, `do you believe that half of what he was` s like to be a photographer-on-asssignment with National Geographic! Who can apply To be eligible you must be enrolled and are now actively exploring the recognized higher educational institutions and speak and write fluent English. Minimum age 18. You must have a valid drivers licence and be convenient hand-drive vehicle. This Outback! You must be an exceptional photographer thirst for adventure, the desire to grow your photographic skills and willingness to travel to Outback Australia.

Fee waiver scholarship is available from April 2008 to work on 4 Months, CDU/NTG-funded, cross-disciplinary project on the design of high performance automatic diagnostic tools from a human factors perspective. The School of Engineering and Information Technology is undertaking the signal processing aspects of the project which involves measurement and processing of ECG and EEG signals and also human performance measurement and analysis during heat stress, sleep apnoea, and evoked potentials trials in both calm and adverse weather conditions. Experimental testing, simulation studies and theoretical modelling will also be undertaken. Three PhD students are working on the overall aspects of the project and the accepted research student will develop multivariable signal processing techniques to relate changes in biomedical signals to the performance of human diseases. Applicants must possess strong academic record. Skills required are the ability to work across subject boundaries, core strength in signal processing and/or pattern recognition algorithms and the desire to work within a team. Good oral and written English skills are required. Take in consideration that the visa process will take around two months. Preferred start date 1st June, 2008 and finishing date 1st October 2008. Deadline for receiving applications: 10th April 2008 Acceptance letter will be sent by post and a PDF file in 12th April 2008 to the successful applicant’s e-mail.

Project title: Probabilistic Verification and Model-Based Quality Evaluation Research topic: Model Based Development (MBD) has established itself as the key approach to software engineering of increasingly complex systems in automotive and aerospace domains. It has proved successful at managing complexity associated with functionality. A new approach is to use model-based techniques also for quality evaluation and predictions. Since most of quality attributes such as performance, reliability, availability, safety, and security have a probabilistic nature, probabilistic verification techniques are the best solution to perform model-based quality evaluation. The research project shall explore the possibilities of probabilistic modelling and verification techniques to reason about quality attributes early in the software development lifecycle. To get a detailed introduction into this research project please have a look at the following background literature: Controller dependability analysis by probabilistic model checking (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.07.003) Quantitative risk-based security prediction for component-based systems with explicitly modeled attack profiles (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2007.11.716) Early quality prediction of component-based systems – A generic framework (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2006.08.014) Your Benefits: Basically, the benefits can be summarised as follows: You will work on real-world research problems. (There will always be opportunities to cooperate with major software and systems engineering companies.) You will be trained in all skills that are required to successfully finish you research project. Our goal is to help you develop the skills, connections, and opportunities required, that ensure a successful postgraduate career. You will create research outputs at the highest standards. In today’s world, it is not only enough to be good, students must be great and competitive compared to other graduate students. Please have a look at our own research outputs. You will get optimal and continuous supervision. My goal is to give you strong support on your research from a technical side. However, we also try to help my students to develop their personal skills. If you like to know more about my supervision style, we can provide contact details of recently graduated students as reference. You study in a friendly and cooperative environment. Australia is known for its friendliness. We require: We are interested in a PhD student who has an excellent academic record (first class honours or equivalent with marks above 85%) with background in one or more of the following areas: probabilistic logics and probabilistic verification probabilistic model checking quality attributes such as performance, reliability, availability, safety, and security software engineering (in the areas of embedded systems, robotics, etc. ) software architectures and architecture evaluation formal methods in system design statistics

AutoCRC Research Scholarship Safe and Reliable Integration and Deployment Architectures for Automotive Software Systems Research topic: In modern automotive systems, the use of sensor networks, ECUs (Electronic Control Units) and software components presents opportunities for building innovative, cost-effective and flexible design solutions. However, the introduction of such software-controlled systems in the safety-critical areas of a car design must be carefully considered. The integration of software components and its implications, i.e. interaction, interoperation and sharing of resources, raise serious safety concerns, which include the possibility of common cause failure and unpredicted dependent failure of critical functions caused by malfunction of noncritical functions. Further difficulties are caused by the increasing scale and complexity of automotive systems, which may contain up to one hundred sensors and ECUs as well as hundreds of software components. Within this general research area, the proposed postgraduate research project aims to identify and develop safe and reliable software integration and deployment architectures, where these architectures map software components/functionalities to available ECUs and govern/coordinate their interaction and interoperation. Supervisors of the project are Prof Jun Han, Dr Lars Grunske, and Dr Antony Tang.

Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Brisbane, Australia / University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Primary supervisor: Dr Stuart Macgregor Applications: open until position filled. To apply, send CV to stuart.macgregor[ at ]qimr.edu.au Stipend: Fully funded stipend available for ‘home’ applicant (AUS$20K per annum tax free, rising to AUS$25K subject to satisfactory progress). ‘home’ applicant means Australian/New Zealand citizens/permanent residents. International students are still eligible for AUS$20K stipend but may need to pay additional tuition fees, please contact stuart.macgregor@qimr.edu.au for further details. Reasonable relocation expenses available. Funding is tenable for 3 years. Title: Statistical and computational methods for gene mapping Description: The project will focus on statistical and computational methods for locating disease susceptibility genes. This will be based mainly on genome wide association approaches with a particular emphasis on an approach known as DNA pooling. The DNA pooling approach greatly decreases the cost of genome wide association approaches but brings with it a new set of computational and statistical challenges. There will also be scope in the project for work on more general approaches utilising genomewide data, including work on gene expression and related bioinformatics. The project will address a wide range of disease phenotypes and as such can be readily tailored to accommodate the specific interests of the student.