Two PhD Student Positions in the context of the EU project RACE.

Two PhD student positions in Computer Science. These positions are in the area of hybrid knowledge representaiton and reasoning, planning and execution monitoring.

About the positions. The main task of the students will be to perform world-class research on hybrid knowledge representation and reasoning, and hybrid planning and plan execution monitoring, for robotic systems. Hybrid in this context means that the robot is capable of inferring new information about its environment from a variety of information of different nature. For instance, the robot will consider flexible temporal requirements (e.g., serving food while it is warm, but not too soon after the previous course) together with causal requirements (e.g., serving a meal satisfies the goal of feeding the guests) and resource constraints (e.g., dishes from the previous course must be cleared as space must be made for the new course). Such requirements should be upheld both during planning and on-line execution monitoring.

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51 PhD Scholarships at University of Trento, Italy

University of Trento, Italy

Doctoral School in MATHEMATICS
deadline: 30/09/2011

Doctoral School in PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND EDUCATION
deadline: 31/08/2011

Doctoral School in ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
deadline: 12/10/2011

Doctoral School in BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCES
deadline: 04/10/2011

Doctoral School in Humanities
deadline: 15/09/2011

Doctoral School in PHYSICS
deadline: 28/09/2011

Doctoral School in ENGINEERING OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS
deadline: 19/10/2011

http://www4. unitn.it/ Apply/en/ Home/Index

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PhD positions at University of Ferrara, Italy

Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori – IUSS Ferrara 1391

Open Competition based on academic qualifications for admission to Research Doctorate courses
XXVII Cycle – Year 2012
Reserved for students from international education
Places offered in Competition
The University of Ferrara announces an open competition based on academic qualifications and reserved for students from international education, for admission to the following Research Doctorate courses – XXVII cycle, year 2012.

http://www.unife. it/studenti/ dottorato/ concorsi- en/titoli

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PhD positions at University of Turin, Italy

Deadline: 28 july 2011

UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, ITALY

CALL FOR APPLICANTS RESEARCH DOCTORATES - 27th CYCLE
(Deadline for online application: 28th July 2011 at 12.00 hours a.m. - Italian time)

The selection for the Doctorate is through:

1) written examination and interview, or

2) assessment of qualifications and interview.

3) assessment of qualifications only if foreseen by the Doctorate programme and reserved for:

A) candidates resident abroad, and/or

B) foreign candidates (wherever resident) who hold a foreign qualification.

Candidates who fall within categories A) or B) are selected on the basis of the conditions set out in Article 5 of the call for applicants.

Candidate who does not yet hold a University Degree before the application deadline can take part in the competitive selection, providing he/she will graduate before the date of the first examination. Please read for more details art. 5 – point D, of the call for applicants.

http://www.unito. it/unitoWAR/ appmanager/ istituzionale_ en/phd?_nfpb= true&_pageLabel= call_deadlines_ application1

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15 PhD Scholarships at University of Padua, Italy

Grants for foreign students

Deadline: 5 September 2011

The University of Padova, through the funding of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, offers research fellowships for foreign students to attend Doctoral Schools/Internation al Courses. During the 3-year doctoral programme, successful candidates will be offered full board and lodging.

Announcement of 15 PhD grants reserved to foreign students for the admission to the Doctoral Schools and to International Doctoral Courses (27th series) a.y. 2011/12

http://www.unipd.it/unipdWAR/page/unipd_en/research_en1/en_6_3_P2

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Doctoral Scholarships in Energy Science, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Japan

International Doctoral Program (IDP) in Energy Science
Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University
The international Doctoral Program in Energy Science is offered to provide foreign students and researchers, who have a Master’s degree (or equivalent), an opportunity to further their studies toward a Doctoral degree at Kyoto University. In this Doctoral Program, Japanese proficiency is not required since students can obtain the necessary credits by choosing ones among a variety of subjects presented in English and their research works are also supervised in English. An evaluation of eligibility for admission will be made on the basis of the documents submitted to our School Affairs Office.
Eight students will be admitted each year with a scholarship from the Japanese Government.
Scholarship

• Allowance: 155,000 to 158,000yen per month for at most 36 months (subject to change depending upon the annual budget of each year)
• Travel to and from Japan: Economy-class round trip airfare
• School fees: Exemption from the entrance and tuition fees

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New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarships

Scholarships

New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarships

New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarships (NZIDRS) are open to all international students who meet the eligibility criteria.

NZIDRS scholarships include:

full tuition fees for three years of full-time doctoral study
NZ$20,500 per annum living allowance (NZ$1708.33 per month).
up to NZ$600 annual health insurance allowance
NZ$2000 (across 3 year tenure) travel allowance. This is intended to be used for conference attendance and field research
NZ$800 (across 3 year tenure) book and thesis allowance
NZ$500 one-off establishment allowance. Only to be paid to those students who are travelling to NZ specifically to take up the NZIDRS. No student already located in NZ is eligible to receive this amount.
Additional funds are not available to support accompanying dependants.

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