The 2nd year of the Master of Physics at Clermont-Ferrand1 welcomes students from France and abroad, provided they have passed the Master 1 exams, or possess the background expected after 4 years of Physics. To promote mobility and excellence, a number of 5,000 euros fellowships have been opened this year to the best candidates satisfying high level academic criteria.

Teaching program:

-200 hours of advanced lectures in particle physics include: field theory, symmetries in Physics, particle physics detectors, Quantum Electro-Dynamics, Quantum Chromo-Dynamics, Electro-Weak Standard Model. Part of the lectures are given in english; a good command of both the French and English languages is required.

-5 months of research training in a research laboratory. The LPC (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire) of Clermont is one of the 18 laboratories of the French Institute for Particle Physics of the CNRS (IN2P3). Research is conducted in world-wide Particle Physics facilities, such as CERN (Geneva) or Fermilab (Chicago). For instance, research teams of the laboratory, which regularly host research trainings at the Master and PhD level, are involved in 3 of the four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, both for instrumental developments of detectors and for the Physics analysis.

Research opportunities:
The Master diploma of the Blaise Pascal University allows holders to apply for any PhD fellowship in High Energy Physics in Europe and in the world (US, Japan). Typically 3 or 4 PhD fellowships are available each year at the Blaise Pascal University for the students having passed the Master of Physics.

Application procedure:
Applications should be sent by mail, before the 1st of May 2010 at the following address:
Michèle Chadelas, secrétariat du Master de Physique,
Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal,
24 Avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière Cedex.

http://www.univ-bpclermont.fr/FORMATIONS/Master/physique/

and should contain the same documents as for Master admission:

• a filled registration form (available from the web site);
• a statement of purpose;
• a detailed CV (resume);
• a copy of the passport with the photograph;
• detailed transcripts of University grades for the last 3 years of study and the copies of the last diploma obtained (with a certified translation when necessary);
• a recommendation letter from one close professor (confidential, in a sealed envelope);
• a Campus France number (for foreign students), proving that the visa application is under way (2);

(1)The University of Clermont-Ferrand has a tradition dating back to the XIIth century. In the XXth century it was named after the famous Physicist, Mathematician, and Philosopher Blaise Pascal, who was born in Clermont-Ferrand and established the atmospheric pressure in the surrounding mountains. The University counts about 14000 students, including 2000 foreigners.

(2)Campus France is a facility which depends on french embassies or consulates, aimed at helping and centralizing the application for studying in France. http://www.campusfrance.org

Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarships

The Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarships are available to students for either three or six months of intensive language study and cultural immersion in another country. This award provides funds to cover round-trip transportation, language training expenses, and homestay living arrangements. Applications are considered for candidates interested in studying Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.

Provided By: Rotary International, The Rotary Foundation
Deadline: Varies
Amount: $16000
Applicable Majors:
Arabic Language and Literature
Chinese Language and Literature
French Language and Literature
German Language and Literature
Hebrew Language and Literature
Italian Language and Literature
Japanese Language and Literature
Portuguese Language and Literature
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Russian Language and Literature
Scandinavian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Spanish Language and Literature

Download the Ambassadorial Scholarships application form (PDF).
How to Apply, visit the website

The candidate will have to perform aerodynamic experiments with different plasma actuators to prove and optimise their efficiency for aerodynamic flow control. He will investigate the ability of different plasma actuators in controlling the flow separation at the trailing edge of a NACA 0015 airfoil. She(He) will focus especially on the spatio-temporal dynamic of the natural detachment occurring at the trailing edge and the forced reattachment. Experiments will be performed in a large-scale wind tunnel (Re up to 106) by time-resolved measurements (high-speed visualization, high-speed PIV, LDV). The goal is to characterize accurately the dynamic of the control process in order to optimize the electrical input parameters of the actuator. An important part of the post-doctoral works will be dedicated to the design of largescale experiments in wind tunnel. Furthermore, the researcher will investigate how the noise produced by the flow separation occurring on the suction side of the airfoil may be reduced and she (he) will contribute to help for experiments conducted at ONERA about the control of wing tip vortex still by plasma actuation.

These experimental works will be conducted within the framework of a European project (Plasmaero, FP7-AAT-2008-RTD, 12 partners), which seeks to demonstrate how plasma discharges could be used to control aircraft aerodynamic flow. The Electrohydrodynamic group of University of Poitiers is well-known all over the world for its works on plasma actuators applied to airflow control (about 30 papers on this topic in international journal since 2000). The group as develop competence in plasma analysis and benefits of the large experience from LEA in advanced metrology.

The candidate will collaborate in lab with a plasma physician colleague supporting the definition and operations of the plasma actuator. Collaborative measurements performed in the large-scale wind tunnels of University of Poitiers are planned in the project. The candidate will assist these experiments guaranteeing strong interaction with international partners and a work in a favourable environment.

The candidate has to be a specialist of aerodynamics with knowledge in large-scale wind tunnel tests. Obviously, knowledge in flow control would be appreciated as well as experience in time-resolved data processing.

The contract is renewable for 12 months.

The annual salary is of about 22 k€ (net salary)

Contact:
Nicolas Benard
Assistant Professor, ‘Electrofluidodynamic’ Group
Laboratoire d’Etudes Aérodynamiques (LEA) UMR CNRS6609
Bld Marie et Pierre Curie
Téléport 2
BP 30179
86962 Futuroscope Cedex
France
Email: Nicolas.benard[ at ]lea.univ-poitiers.fr

Location: institut UTINAM (UMR CNRS 6213) Besançon, France

Length: 9 months, starting as soon as possible considering the time needed by the person retained to get all the administrative papers necessary to work in France.

Financial conditions:
The credits obtained allow us to warrant a gross salary of 1839 € per month, which in reality means 1508 € per month transferred on the bank account.

Requested profile:
The applicant should preferentially have with experience in numerical analysis concerning implementation of the fast wavelet transform in fortran. Experience of parallelization and/or knowledge of Green’s function techniques and/or knowledge of the scattering matrix formalism in optics would be a plus, but are not required.

In any case, the person retained must have completed his/her PHD since less than 2 years and NOT be of French nationality! Therefore, the applicants should enclose in their application, considerations allowing assessing the time they would need to get the authorization to work in France.

Summary of the project:
Since more than 10 years, we have been carrying theoretical studies concerning carbon nanotubes, first in the framework of the French CNRS research group GDR n°1752, then in the European research group GDR-E n°2756). In parallel, we got interested in applying the fast wavelet transform to speed up our simulations which require resolution of integral equations by Green’s function techniques. The limiting step is most of the time the resolution of large and dense systems of linear equations. The idea was to consider the matrix of the system just as an image and to use the fast wavelet transform and a thresholding process to sparsify it. The resulting sparse system is solved by means of specialized techniques and the solution inverse transformed. This was already part of the subject of Rachel Langlet’s PHD thesis co-supervised by Martin Meyer (Mathematics lab of Besançon) and Michel Devel (UTINAM institute of Besançon), with a great help from Yiwei LI (Xidian University, China) during and after his one-month visit in Besançon in July 2004. Thanks to these efforts we now have several pieces of fortran 90 codes, which implement this algorithm for real matrices (of arbitrary size, not necessarily a power of 2), with various levels of refinement. First experiments indicate that we can indeed use far less memory than with the traditional LAPACK based code and also gain in computation speed.

The goal of this post-doc would be to apply the same technique with complex coefficient matrices and possibly parallelize it. This would allow us to simulate interaction with light of carbon nanotubes or carbonaceous soot, with sizes closer to the actual experimental size of these objects than what we can presently do with the LAPACK based code. Cooperation with experimentalists in these fields is already under way.

Contact person :
Please send a CV and e-mail and phone numbers of some past collaborators to:

Dr., Michel DEVEL
Institut UTINAM, UMR CNRS 6213
16 route de GRAY,
25030 Besançon CEDEX, FRANCE
Michel.devel@univ-fcomte.fr
(http://www.utinam.cnrs.fr)

The deadline of application is 31 January 2008. The Master has been accepted in the framework of the prestigious European programme on education “Erasmus Mundus”. The consortium conducting the Master is composed of three institutions: Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France), University of Genova (Italy) and Warsaw University of Technology (Poland).

Duration of studies is two years. The student spends each of those years in a different institution, thus he or she obtains two master’s diplomas of those two institutions. Langue of instruction is English.

Details of the grants and the Masters course can be found at: http://emaro.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/

Co-ordinator of EMARO

Prof. Wisama KHALIL
Ecole Centrale de Nantes
IRCCyN (Institut de Recherche en Communication et Cybernétique de Nantes)
B.P 92 101, 44321 Nantes cedex 03
France.

E-mail : Wisama.Khalil@irccyn.ec-nantes.fr
Web : http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr

The deadline of application is 31 January 2008. The Master has been accepted in the framework of the prestigious European programme on education “Erasmus Mundus”.

During the programme, the student will work one year on universities in two different european countries: Karlsruhe (Germany), Besancon (France) and Gijon (Spain). Lectures are given in the local languages French, German and/or Spanish.

Duration of studies is two years. During the programme, the student will work one year on universities in two different european countries: Hochschule Karlsruhe Technik und Wirtschaft, Karlsruhe (Germany), Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique et des Microtechniques de Besancon(France) and Escuela Politécnica Superior de Gijon (Spain), obtaining two master’s diplomas of those two institutions. Lectures are given in the local languages French, German and/or Spanish.

Details of the grants and the Masters course and an online application form can be found at http://eu4m.eu

Contact:
Prof. Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Fritz J. Neff
Co-ordinator of ERASMUS Mundus EU4M-Consortium
Director of LMHS (Lab for Micro-Mechatronic Systems)
Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechatronics
Hochschule Karlsruhe – Technik und Wirtschaft
Moltkestrasse 30
76133 Karlsruhe
Tel.: ++(0)721 925-1706
FAX: ++(0)721 925-1707
e-mail: fritz.neff@hs-karlsruhe.de
e-mail co-ordinator: eu4m-consortium@hs-karlsruhe.de

This is to communicate to you a generous scholarship opportunity for urban studies focusing on countries of the South. We will be grateful if you could widely disseminate the news summarized below in order to attract the best possible applicants in the relatively short period remaining until the deadline in mid-January.

Thank you for your co-operation

Prof. Dr. Kosta Mathéy
PAR / Technische Universität Darmstadt
E-mail : mathey@par.tu-damstadt.de

18 Scholarships available for urban studies in Germany, Italy, France and Spain. The Erasmus Mundus Program offers scholarships to non-European students and scholars to participate in the interdisciplinary Advanced Master’s Course in International Co-operation and Urban Development. The English taught program is jointly offered by the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), the Universitænbsp; Tor Vergata in Rome, the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona and the Université Pierre Mendés France in Grenoble and leads to a double degree. Applicants for student scholarships (value € 42.000,- over two years each) should have concluded previous studies of a minimum of 4 years with excellent results in a career related to urban development and have professional working experience of a minimum of one year. Scholars from outside Europe may apply for short term bursaries (€4000,- per month) to teach and conduct research at one of the above mentioned universities. In both cases the deadline for applications is January 15th, 2008 for the 2008-2010 cycle. Further information: www.mundus-urbano.eu

This programme is aimed at students wishing to apply for a second year Research Master (RM2) or for a PhD in order to follow or pursue their research training in one of the departments or laboratories of the ENS de Cachan. Priority is given to students who wish to undertake a complete second year of Research Master and to students who wish to carry out a research internship within the framework of a joint PhD (“co-tutelle”).

The grant amounts to 1000 euros/month. These grants are awarded for a minimum period of one semester (six months) and a maximum period of 12 months not renewable.

Application deadline : 14th January 2008

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