From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon May 18 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gip.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!server5.netnews.ja.net!news.shef.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: ACSE Admissions Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,uk.sci.misc Subject: [UK only]: PhD scholarships available Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:54:30 +0100 Organization: Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK Lines: 44 Message-ID: <35618F16.5AFB@acad.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc054011.shef.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Adaptive Predictive Control in Biomedicine (other topics also available) Dept of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering University of Sheffield Applications are invited for the above 3-year studentship, leading to PhD, to work in the area of Intelligent Control Systems (Soft Computing, including Fuzzy logic, Neural Networks, and Genetic Algorithms) and Model-Based Adaptive Predictive Control applied to biomedicine. The successful candidate will be involved in the software and hardware aspects of an exciting research project which will offer adequate resources, technical support, and practical experience. He/She will also have the opportunity to join a top-rated Engineering Department which achieved a Grade 5A in the last Research Assessment Exercise. Award Value: The scholarship will pay tuition fees plus a maintenance allowance to the successful student of £5,400 per year. Eligibility: You must be a UK resident and have, or expect to achieve, at least a BSc (Hons) class 2:1 or equivalent in a relevant science, maths or engineering subject. Start Date: The scholarship can commence on a date between May and October 1998 by mutual agreement. Four additional UK Research Studentships to start on or after 1 October are available which can be allocated to any research topic in the Department. Please ask for more details. For more information, please send an email,including details of your postal address to: pgacse-g@sheffield.ac.uk *************************************************** What to find out more about research topics available? Then come to our Dept Research Open Day on Tues 9 June 1pm - 4pm. Please email above for further details *************************************************** .