Scholarships for PhD study in Informatics_at_Edinburgh
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:30:21 +0000
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Scholarships for PhD study in
the School of Informatics at
the University of Edinburgh
FIFTY research scholarships are available for:
- UK students
- EU students
- students worldwide
Many of these are full scholarships, paying your tuition fees and a stipend of 12940 pounds to cover living expenses in your first year, rising in second and third years. The rest pay your fees and/or a contribution towards living expenses. Payment of fees for non-EU students is subject to successful competition for an Overseas Research Student award. PhD students are encouraged to make contributions to teaching, for example by leading tutorial groups, and for this you can expect to earn an additional 500-1000 pounds per year.
Informatics
Informatics is the study of information and computation, in both natural and engineered systems. It comprises a vast range of scientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic and social impact.
Edinburgh University's School of Informatics brings together the former Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computer Science, together with the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute. The School possesses a combination of breadth and strength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive world-wide; as an intellectual endeavour it is strikingly original.
The School is the only university grouping in the UK to have achieved the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise round, and it is the UK's biggest research group in this area. We currently have around 270 students studying for PhD, and around 140 for MSc.
PhD study
PhD study is carried out within one of our six research Institutes:
ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
ANC fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial and biological systems; two themes are the study of artificial learning systems and the analysis and modelling of brain processes. CISA undertakes basic and applied research and development in knowledge representation and reasoning. Through its applications institute AIAI, it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with this research. ICCS pursues basic research into the nature of communication among humans and between humans and machines, using text, speech and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches.
ICSA seeks development of a better understanding of systems components, both hardware and software, and their integration and interaction; this involves not only improving their raw performance and cost-effectiveness, but also making them more connectable and interoperable, more reliable, more usable and more applicable. The interests of IPAB are how to link computational perception, representation, transformation and generation processes to external worlds---whether real or virtual. The mission of LFCS is to achieve a foundational understanding of problems and issues arising in computation and communication through the development of appropriate and applicable formal models and mathematical theories.
Projects
A very wide range of research topics is available for PhD study. Here is an (incomplete!) list of project areas; see
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprojects.html
for some information on each of these.
ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
Bioinformatics
Machine Learning
Neuroinformatics
CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
A Proof Management Tool
Automating Diagrammatic Reasoning
Improving Support for Mathematics in Mechanical Theorem Provers Multi-Agent Coordination in Open Environments Game-Theoretic Analysis of Multiagent Communication Argumentation-Based Ontology Conflict Resolution Political Coordination Mechanisms
Intelligent Agents in Service-Oriented Architectures Collaborative Task-Achieving Teams
ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
Concurrency in (Computational) Linguistics Lexicalized Reasoning
Building Models of the Past
Unsupervised Language Learning using Multiple Cues Eyetracking Corpora as Experimental Data Probabilistic Models of Human Parsing Integrating Linguistic and Visual Processing Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Speech Recognition Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language Generation Probabilistic Models of Text-to-Text Generation Robust Construction of Semantics
Projecting Logical Forms in Parallel Corpora A Dynamic Semantic Theory of Dialogue A Grammar of Situated Language
Statistical Methods in Dialogue System Design and Adaptation Statistical Machine Translation for Biomedical Domains Microphone-Array Based Speech Recognition Language Models for Multiparty Conversations Hidden Speech Production Models
Multimodal Information Access
Head Motion Synthesis for Lifelike Conversational Agents Multi-Unit Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition Induction of Wide-Coverage Categorial Lexicon from Large Amounts of
Unlabeled Text
Use of Intonation in Spoken Language Generation for Human-Machine
Dialogue
Temporal Semantics
Grammar-Driven Language Models
Automated Musical Analysis
The Statistical Semantic Web
Extracting and Using Alternatives in Question Answering
Projecting Discourse Annotation from Parallel Corpora
ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
Data Integration and Data Mining
Grid Computing
Speculative Parallelisation for Multiprocessors Cellular Multiprocessors
Skeletal Parallel Programming
Memory-Hierarchy and On-Chip Network Co-Design Micro-Architectural Solutions for Fault-Tolerance Data-Dependent Processing for Energy-Aware Systems Noise-Tolerant Asynchronous Circuits Top-Down Testability for Self-Timed Circuits Delay Fault Testing of Self-Timed Circuits Dynamic Spectrum Access in Heterogeneous Wireless Network
Environments
Cross-Layer and Coding Techniques for Reliable and Efficient
Wireless Networking
Low-Cost, Robust Networking and Applications for Developing Regions
Auto-Parallelisation
Compilers that Learn to Optimise
Processor Design
Reconfigurable Caches
Searching the Embedded Program Optimisation Space
Energy and Area Modelling for Architecture Synthesis
Low-Power Multi-Threaded Architectures
Reconfigurable Data-Parallel Structures for Embedded Computation
Combinatorial Optimisation
IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
Behaviour Composition in Video Sequence Analysis Fragmentary Behaviour Recognition in Video Sequence Analysis High Speed 3D Video Data Analysis
Insect Robotics
LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
Engineering Electronic Proof
Independence-Friendly Temporal Logic Questions on Modal mu-Calculi
Archiving of Scientific Data
Integrity Constraints for XML and Beyond Keys for XML
Provenance in Databases
Information Preserving Schema Mapping Vectorizing XML
Algorithms for the SAT problem
Randomized Algorithms for Transportation Polytopes Complexity of Approximate Counting
Rule-Based Models of Biological Signalling Algorithmic Verification of Recursive Probabilistic Systems Schema-Directed XML Publishing
A Security Model for XML
XML Query Languages
Data Cleaning
Schema Matching, Mapping and Embedding Partial Evaluation and Distributed Query Processing Performance Modelling with Process Algebras Computational Models for Systems Biology Continuous-State process calculi: Methods and Tools Combining Model Checking and Theorem Proving Data Exchange
Databases and Verification
A Logic of Computational Effects
Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Formal Software Development Proof Carrying Code for the Grid
Security for Mobile Devices
Topological Models of Computation
Constructive Set Theories and their Applications Proof Theory for Programs and Processes Type Systems for Computational Effects Mathematical Models for Concurrent and Mobile Computation Modalities for Name Generation: Logic, Proof and the Meaning of New "Bad Smells" in Code
Combinations and Abstractions of Formal Games Decision Procedures for Higher-Order Grammars Links: Web Programming, Faster, Better, Cheaper
Further information
Information about graduate study, the School of Informatics, the University as a whole and the city of Edinburgh is available from:
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.ed.ac.uk
You can email queries about admissions to:
phd-admissions_at_inf.ed.ac.uk
but first please see the FAQ lists at
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/faqs/application.html http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/faqs/funding.html
Queries about the research topics above can be sent to individual members of teaching staff. Application forms are available from:
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/appform.html
Your application form should be returned by mid-March. Earlier applications have access to a wider range of sources of financial aid. Applications for an Overseas Research Student award must be completed by mid-February at the latest. Chinese applicants who are interested in funding from the China Scholarship Council should apply by late January at the latest. Received on Mon Dec 31 2007 - 16:30:21 CET