The Humanities and Social Sciences Group; Faculty of Business and Economics ; Research Center of
Econometrics are looking for Doctoral Scholar (f/m)

• You will conduct research and work thowards a PhD in Economics on a topics related to China’s economic transformation.
• You will assist the supervisor with research and teaching tasks.
Possible directions of research are:
• the impact of WTO entry on China’s industrial sector
• transfer of capabilities from Multinational enterprises to Chinese manufacturing firms

• why has the export precessing sector been so succesful in China?
• impact of Chinese exports on Belgian industry
• etc.

Your profile:
Advanced Master degree in Economics
• Candidates with an initial master degree in Economics, applied Economics, or Commercial, Bio, or Civil Engineering
are encouraged to apply, but will be required to complete the advanced MA program at the K.U.Leuven.

We offer an employment as full-time docotral scholar starting at the 2010, October 1st, for 1 year, rewenable till 4 years.

Please visit http://www.kuleuven.be/vacatures and apply online.
For more information about the job description, please contact Prof. dr. J. Van Biesebroeck,
Johannes.VanBiesebroeck@econ.kuleuven.be, tel:+32 16 326793
Applications must be received no later than 25/04/2010.
K.U.Leuven carries out an equal opportunity and diversity policy.

The INTRO project (INTeractive RObotics Research Network) is offering 10 research positions (8 PhD student positions starting in 2010 and 2 post-doctoral positions starting in 2011) in the interdisciplinary areas of Interactive Robotics; Cooperative Robot Learning, Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Intelligent Interface Design.

INTRO aims to create a new generation of robotic researchers with a broad understanding of the research and technologies needed to build intelligent robots that function in close interaction with humans in unstructured, changing “real word” conditions. The training has a strong multidisciplinary approach complemented by specialized domain knowledge. Young researchers will work closely with industries, endowing them with insight and understanding of the industrial product life-cycle and valuable hands-on experience of top-level industrial robot development. By blending complementary skills, INTRO will improve the career perspectives of young researchers, in both academic and industrial sectors. This will be achieved through a transnational network of universities and robot companies, with senior researchers from different disciplines (robotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, human factors) coming from different `schools-of-thought’ (computer sciences, industrial engineering, psychology).

INTRO is funded by the European Commission as part of the FP7 program and involves 6 partners. Each PhD student will be stationed at one of the universities and will also undergo a secondment and visit other partners. The post-doctoral researchers will be stationed at one of the partner companies, with several visits to the other partners’ institutions. The following positions are offered:

Umea University, Sweden

- PhD2: Learning from Demonstration and Imitation

- PhD5: Emotional interaction

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

- PhD1: Learning inspired by cognitive psychology

- PhD8: Intelligent interface design

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

- PhD3: Behaviour and intention recognition for human-robot learning

- PhD4: Dynamic gesture analysis

University of the West of England, UK

- PhD6: Robot safety and interaction

- PhD7: Failure detection and recovery

An applicant for any of the positions must not be a citizen of the country in which the associated university/company is located.

Each recruited researcher will join a training program comprising the following major components: An individual research project conducted in close cooperation with researchers from the partner universities and industries; A network-wide training program that includes regular courses and courses in complementary skills (such as project management and proposal writing); Seminars and workshops.

For general information on INTRO and the open positions, please visit www.introbotics.eu or contact the program coordinator Dr. Thomas Hellström at Umeå University: thomash cs.umu.se

The INTRO partners recognize the importance of gender equality and are committed to it in all aspects of the project.

Each position has to be applied for separately.

Common closing date for all applications: 15th of April 2010.

Anticipated start date: 1st of September 2010 or earlier.

http://introbotics.eu

Financial and Actuarial Mathematics,
Institute for Mathematical Methods in Economics,
Vienna University of Technology

We are looking for a Ph.D. student for the broad areas of credit risk models, credit derivatives or general dependence modelling in risk management. The position is in the Christian Doppler Laboratory on Portfolio Risk Management (PRisMa Lab). The laboratory is located within the research group for financial and actuarial mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology, it is headed by Prof. Uwe Schmock.

The laboratory is funded by the Christian Doppler Research Association, which is a non-profit association aiming to promote high-quality research, development and knowledge transfer in Austria. The research is carried out jointly with the Bank Austria, the Austrian Federal Financing Agency (ÖBFA) and FJA Feilmeier & Junker. Your main area of activity will be high-quality research in “Modelling, pricing, and hedging counterparty credit exposure” (see the recent Springer book by Cesari et al. with the same title for details), in particular joint modelling of the dependence of market dynamics and default mechanisms, the integration of historical and market implied data, and the development of efficient numerical algorithms for portfolios with complex products, always with a view towards practical applicability.

We offer you to work on the forefront of current mathematical research, within a highly active and distinguished research group (Prof. Uwe Schmock, Dr. Stefan Gerhold, Prof. Peter Grandits, Prof. Friedrich Hubalek, Dr. Reinhold Kainhofer, Dr. Hannes Kazianka), and in close cooperation with the specialists of our financial industry partners. We expect you to have some background in financial mathematics, programming with R, Matlab, etc. and C or C++, basic knowledge in numerical mathematics and writing mathematics with LaTeX.

There are no teaching duties associated with these positions. The planned starting date is as soon as possible (preferrably beginning of May), but flexible. The salaries for the position are based on the FWF guidelines. We strongly encourage applications of female candidates.

Your application has to be in English or German and should arrive by April 6, 2010.
Ideally it should be in electronic format (PDF) and include:

* Application letter, indicating your preferred start date,
* Complete curriculum vitae,
* List of publications and preprints (if any), links to online versions if available,
* Copies of academic transcripts and certificates (please include a translation if these are not in English, German or French),
* Letters of reference or contact details of academics who can provide a letter of reference upon request.

Send your application to the office address secr@fam.tuwien.ac.at. Please join all your attached documents into a single file if possible.

Contact details:
Prof. Dr. Uwe Schmock, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hubalek
Financial and Actuarial Mathematics
Vienna University of Technology
Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10/105-1 FAM
A-1040 Vienna
Austria
eMail: schmock@fam.tuwien.ac.at, fhubalek@fam.tuwien.ac.at
URL: http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ (research group) and http://www.prismalab.at/ (PRisMa Lab)
website link:
http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/jobs/20100225a.php

Masters Programme in Terrorism and

International Security Studies

(17 tuition fee waivers are available on competitive basis)

Universitas Indonesia has recently established a new Master’s Degree
Programme in Terrorism and Security Studies which will be managed by the
Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Social and
Political Sciences. Universitas Indonesia aims to play a role in
anti-terrorism efforts, at least in two ways. First it will contribute
to the development of governmental counter-terrorism policy. This
requires strategies to hinder terrorist activity as well as efforts to
protect civil rights and social stability.

Our rationale is to support
and inform the state in its mission to counter terrorism and prevent the
derogation of civil rights and liberties whilst also maintaining good
governance, security and social services for the people. Secondly it
will help create an unbiased and academically sound body of terrorism
studies free from the agenda of ruling governments, political parties,
agencies and private entities.

Terrorism is only part of a bigger vision of problemmatic issues
confronting Indonesians, and other citizens of the world, which are
associated with global uncertainty. These issues include financial
instability, climate change, pandemics and a range of networked threats
organized and run by various illegitimate actors. Globalization has
facilitated increased volumes of trade and wealth, as will also be
generated from ASEAN’s Free Trade Agreement with China. However we need
to be mindful that this wealth will be unevenly distributed.
Globalization has also generated an underclass of malcontents and this
offers opportunities for new criminal activity and political violence on
a considerable scale. This is not limited to organized crime but also
parallel effects of money laundering, corruption, weapons proliferation
and the emergence of kleptocratic regimes.

Indonesia’s security sector, the parliament, the executive body and
security agencies can no longer ignore transnational security issues.
While the rush against terrorism dies down as succcessful police
killings and captures pile up, we can ask ourselves whether intelligence
and security agencies have sufficient capacity to address other
transnational issues such illegal trafficking of drugs, women and
children and infiltration of illegitimate actors into our borders.

In regard to this background the new Terrorism and Security Studies
Programme will address the following key issues:

* What is terrorism and what drives it?

* Who are the ‘terrorists’ and how do they operate?

* Which political methods can best help us explain and
understand terrorism and state responses to terrorism?

* How do national security systems engage with the terrorist
threat?

* How does the interaction between the international Islamist
movement and the nature of the state in Indonesia contribute to the
emergence of Islamist terrorism in the country?

* Why has political Islam gained popularity in Indonesia and why
has it gained significant power in government decision-making. How does
this compare with other political movements that have also applied
violence in their campaigns?

* What are the dynamics between the Islamist movement in the
Middle East and South Asia and the growth of the movement in Southeast
Asia, especially Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and
Indonesia?

* How have the processes of globalization impacted upon
terrorism.

* How can we understand the relationship between democracy,
authoritarianism and terrorism?

* How is the threat of terrorism perceived by state or non-state
groups? How does this translate into counter-terror policy?

* How have Indonesia and other S-E Asian countries interacted
with Western military and economic support in recent history?

17 bursaries for a full fee waiver are available for the 2010 intake of
students. These bursaries will be available on a competitive basis.
Grantees of a fee waiver will be short-listed from the results of the
selection test held by Universitas Indonesia.

Interested individuals must apply for the entrance test (Seleksi Masuk
Universitas Indonesia/ SIMAK UI) before 23 March 2010. Applicants can
visit www.penerimaan.ui.ac.id or
email aliwibisono@ui.ac.id for further
information, including information for international applicants.

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Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Organization: International Bridges to Justice
Area of Focus: Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Law and Legal Assistance
Start date: June 1, 2010
Last day to apply: March 24, 2010
Paid or unpaid: Paid
Language(s): English, Indonesian
End date: June 1, 2011
Last updated: March 2, 2010

Description:
APPLICANTS FROM INDONESIA ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) is seeking applications for the 2010 JusticeMakers Fellowship. JusticeMakers Fellows introduce novel methods of collaborating with police, legal aid communities, and governments to ensure competent legal counsel for ordinary people. Winning applicants earn $5,000, training in Singapore, and a global network of support to help them implement their proposal.

WHAT’S AT STAKE
2010 JusticeMakers Fellows will gain access to funding, resources, and a global network of support to help them realize their personal vision for legal aid and due process within their community.
* Each Fellow will receive USD5,000 to implement a justice project of his/her own design.
* To increase the likelihood of the projects’ success, Fellows will be brought to Singapore in June for a week-long training course and planning session with International Bridges to Justice staff.
* Fellows also have the option to team with a documentary photographer and/or print journalist to bring more exposure and potential support to their work.

ELIGIBILITY
Fellowship applicants must have an idea they’d like to implement and an understanding of the local Indonesian criminal justice environment.
Application instructions:
Applicants must first register at http://www.justicemakers.net. There, they will be able to create a profile, access the preliminary Fellowship application, and get the support they need to articulate their idea in print.

The Application Deadline is March 24, 2010. IBJ must receive Preliminary Applications by 23:59 (11:59 PM) GMT +1 on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 for them to be considered.

Questions? Email Chelsea McConnell at chelsea@justicemakers.net.

Do you want to prepare a doctoral thesis and carry out valuable research in the field of information and communication science and technology or in a related field? In 2010, INRIA is offering young scientists the chance to join one of its research teams. Priority will be given to candidates with experience of mobility and in subjects within the scope of the institute’s priority subject areas.

INRIA’S MAIN RESEARCH FIELDS
- Applied mathematics, computation and simulation
- Algorithmics, programming, software and architecture
- Networks, systems and services, distributed computing
- Perception, cognition, interaction
- Computational Sciences for Biology, Medicine and the Environment

Application conditions
* You must have a Master’s in computer science, control or scientific calculation, or an equivalent diploma;
* All nationalities may apply
* You must submit an application for each subject proposed by the host research centre.

HOW TO APPLY ?
Consult the thesis offers and apply online

Calendar
From 15 February to 4 May 2010

Compensation*
- First and second year doctoral students: 1947,80 € gross/month
- Third year doctoral students: 2048,60 € gross/month
(calculated without teaching duties or specific activities)

Campaign: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/doc.en.html
Topics: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/mrted/en/doc/list.html?LOV2=All&LOV6=All&ContractType=All&ID=PNGFK026203F3VBQB6G68LOE1&LG=EN&statlog=1

Scholarships are awarded based on merit and on specific requirements indicated by the School or company sponsors. For specific requirements, download specific scholarship information.

Evaluation criteria
Among evaluation criteria preference is given to:

* Significant professional experience
* Language proficiency in Foreign languages
* Demonstrated managerial skills

To be considered for scholarships, candidates must:

* Complete and send the ON-LINE application or the PDF application form to the MBA in International Business
* Meet the requirements stated in the scholarship description
* Send all relevant documentation indicated in the competition for scholarship

Admission to the MBA program is independent from the scholarship process.
When outcomes for MBA admissions are announced, candidates will be informed if they receive a scholarship and the amount.
2010 SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships are awarded as a partial exemption from MBA tuition fee.
For more information visit http://www.mib.edu/c/d/p/000039.aspx

MIB School of Management
L.go Caduti di Nasiriya 1 – 34142 Trieste
Italia – tel. +39 040 9188111

The Masdar Institute is in the process of establishing a substantial
research activity in AI, Machine Learning, Multi-Agent Systems,
Cognitive Science, and their applications to energy systems (e.g.
smart grids, intelligent transportation systems, human behavior
modeling). For more details consult:
- http://www.mit.edu/~jcrandal/
- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/irahwan/

Details about the application procedure can be found here (deadline 30
April 2010):

http://www.masdar.ac.ae/Menu/Index.aspx?MenuID=7&CatID=150&mnu=Cat

For further details, please contact:

Dr. Jacob Crandall (http://www.mit.edu/~jcrandal/)
Dr. Iyad Rahwan (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/irahwan/)

General information on the Master of Science programs
Location: Torino
Language in which the courses are held: English or Italian
Length: 2 years
The activities will begin in September 2010.

Requirements
Academic requirements
In order to be admitted into a Master of Science program, applicants must possess a university degree equivalent to a Bachelor of Science degree, which is approximately equivalent to three or four years after secondary school, depending on the number of secondary school years; alternatively, they must have completed at least 8 semesters of university courses, in a national school system that requires 11 or 12 years of study before enrolling in university.

For further information, please visit the Entry requirements page.(http://international.polito.it/en/admission/prospective_undergraduates_and_graduates/graduate_courses/entry_requirements)

Application is open to students who:
1. are not Italian citizens, or are Italian citizens who are also in possess of another citizenship;
2. are not already enrolled in a Master of Science program of the Politecnico di Torino before the 2010/2011 academic year;
3. are not recipients of any other scholarships, Italian or foreign.

Obtaining a degree at the Politecnico di Torino
To graduate at the Politecnico di Torino, students must attain a total of 120 credits, including exams and the final dissertation. A plan of studies must be outlined under the guidance of the student`s academic tutor to identify, in relation to the student`s previous academic career, the courses additionally required to complete the program of studies for theMaster of Science in which the student is enrolled at the Politecnico di Torino. The time required to graduate is approximately two years. However, the effective duration is also dependent upon each student`s capacity. Note also that the time required for the compulsory Italian course is not considered in the estimated duration of the program.

Please note that scholarship recipients must attend their course for its entire length (2 years – 120 credits). Students who have already attended other university courses can ask for a credit transfer up to a maximum of 10 credits per year (20 credits in total). Please note that credits achieved in preparatory courses or in the first year/second year in systems where preuniversity education lasts 10/11 years can not be taken into account.

Scholarships
Selection criteria
Applicants will be selected on the basis of their previous academic career and of their Curriculum Vitae.

Amount of the scholarship
1. The gross amount of the scholarship is 6.000 Euro per year for the complete period. The exact net sum is dependent upon the individual tax conditions of each student, which can be verified only upon the arrival of the student.
2. The amount of the scholarship will not be increased in case the student will need more time to graduate than indicated.
3. The allocation of the scholarship is dependent upon the submission, within 10 days from the arrival in Italy of the student, of the original documentation, which must correspond with the documentation attached to the online form (see the `Selection outcomes` section below).
4. Payment of the scholarship occurs periodically. The first instalment is dependent upon the possession of the relevant documentation (enrollment certification, residence permit, Italian fiscal code, and bank account in the name of the scholarship recipient), all obtainable upon arrival in Italy; for this reason, the first instalment is not paid at the moment of arrival at the Politecnico di Torino, but in the course of the following months.

Requirements to maintain the scholarship
1. Given that it is not possible to combine the benefits received from more than one scholarship, students who are assigned another study grant while receiving the Politecnico di Torino scholarship must promptly notify the Politecnico di Torino.
2. Payment of the scholarship will be suspended if the academic performance of the recipient does not meet a satisfactory level.

How to apply
Scholarship winners will be selected among the students who have successfully completed and submitted the online application form within March 10th, 2010.

Notes:
1. Enrolment at the Politecnico includes insurance coverage for accidents occurring on the university premises.
2. Medical insurance for emergencies (First Aid), as required by the law for non-EU citizens, is about 100 EURO per year. Upon their arrival in Italy, students must pay this amount to INA Assitalia: this is required for the conversion of the entry visa into a residence permit. For further information on these matters, see the Health insurance section.

We advise students to go to the Italian Embassy or Consulate to inform themselves on the necessary requirements to obtain an entry visa in Italy.

Specific contacts for Master of Science
For Scholarship International Relations Office
international.relations@polito.it

For Admission Incoming Students Office
international.admission@polito.it

Open positions in OPTIMAS Carl-Zeiss-Ph. D. program

Ab initio calculations, synthesis and characterization of new homo- and heterodinuclear complexes with novel spin properties

Prof. Dr. H.-J. Krüger

Characterization of protein films on glass surfaces

Prof. Dr. C. Ziegler

Preparation, characterization, and effect of suboxidic particles at the nanoscale in polymeric matrices

Prof. Dr. G. Niedner-Schatteburg

Plasmonics in organic-inorganic hybrid systems

Prof. Dr. C. Ziegler

Hybrid systems of metamaterials and quantum oscillators

Prof. Dr. M. Fleischhauer

High frequency spin currents in magnetic nanostructures

Prof. Dr. H. C. Schneider

more details on the program can be found here:

http://www.uni-kl.de/wcms/optimas.html?&L=1

http://www.uni-kl.de/wcms/fileadmin/optma/JobOffers/OPTIMAS_Zeiss_PhDpositions_11122009.pdf