Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford

The department seeks to recruit a doctoral research student to work on the development of constitutive models for 316 stainless steel under complex thermo-mechanical loading histories. The model will describe the inelastic deformation of the material and will take into account the growth of damage on the constitutive response. The studentship is supported by EDF and will start in January 2011, with the objective of developing models relevant to service conditions experienced in nuclear power generating plant. The project involves collaboration with groups at Bristol University, Imperial College, Open University and EDF.

No prior experience of modelling inelastic deformation and damage growth is needed. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate an interest in materials modelling. A good first degree (at least 2.1) in engineering, materials, physics or a related subject is essential. Candidates should also be able to demonstrate an ability to analyse problems in materials engineering.

The stipend will be £14200 p.a. (and will increase in subsequent years), with all fees paid.

Candidates are expected to meet the Graduate Admissions criteria available at http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/postgrad/criteria.pdf and a full graduate application must be made at the same time as applying for this studentship. Further details about making a graduate application are available at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply. Queries about the project may be addressed directly to Alan.Cocks@eng.ox.ac.uk
Funding information

Funding applies to:
EU applicants (including UK)

Contacts and how to apply

Administrative contact and how to apply:

Please send a letter of application for the studentship, which should explain your interest in and relevant experience for the advertised post, together with a detailed CV to: Mr CJ Scotcher, Senior Administrator, Department of Engineering Science, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ.

Please quote DF10057 in all correspondence to the Department and in your graduate application.

The closing date for applications is Friday 15 October 2010

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PhD scholarship on developing sustainable scheduling policies for radio access networks based on LTE technology phd degrees

The GRID & Ubiquitous Computing Group is a part of the Information and Communication Technologies departement of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg (HES-SO//Fribourg).
This group, created and headed by Professor Pierre Kuonen, is working on topics related to parallel and distributed systems such as Grid computing and on ubiquitous systems. More specifically activities of the group is mainly focusing on the following aspects:

* GRID-Computing: Parallel and distributing programing, distributed and Grid architectures, Grid middelware (mainly resource management).
* Ubiquitous Computing: Context dependable systems, mobile systems, multimodale user interfaces.

The objective of the group is to be an excellence centre able to provide support to industrial and to collaborate on research activities with other academic centres at national and international level.

The GRID & Ubiquitous Computing Group has been a partner of the CoreGRID network of excellence.
Open doctoral position at the GRID & Ubiquitous Computing Group

PhD scholarship on developing sustainable scheduling policies for radio access networks based on LTE technology
The successful candidate will be enrolled in the PhD program at the Institute for Research in Applicable Computing of University of Bedfordshire UK, and he/she will need to spend a vast majority of his/her time in the GRID & Ubiquitous Computing Group at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg. There are no teaching obligations.

We are seeking candidates for a Ph.D research opportunity within an innovative research project which will be jointly running at the Grid and Ubiquitous computing Group at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg and the Centre for Wireless Network Design (CWiND) in University of Bedfordshire. The aim of the project is to develop sustainable and optimal scheduling policies for radio access networks based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. The implementation of the algorithms will be based on grid programming to exploit distributed object models for a faster and more comprehensive experimentation. This will facilitate further collaborative policy optimization algorithms. The research involves the subject areas of wireless communication, operations research, and distributed and parallel computing and programming.

A suitable background for the applicant is a strong undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics or other related fields (e.g., Telecommunication and/or Computer Networks). Candidates must have a strong background in object oriented programming and should have good understanding of parallel/distributed computing.

The position is immediately available but, due to the origin of the funding, is only open to students having the EU or Swiss citizenship. If you are interested in applying to this position, please send your CV with a personal statement to the following email address:

* Prof. Pierre Kuonen
* last date 20 August 2010