ANNOUNCEMENT
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS TO FOREIGN STUDENTS TENABLE IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM FOR THE 2010/2011 ACADEMIC SESSION
With His Majesty`s consent, the Government of Brunei Darussalam is offering annual scholarships under a special scholarship award scheme, commencing in 2010/2011 academic session. The scholarships are offered for Bachelors, Masters, and Phd Degree Program.

Tenable in Brunei Darussalam, the aim of the Scholarship awards is to provide students, with the opportunity to study at Universiti Brunei Darussalam [UBD], Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali [UNISSA] and Institut Teknologi Brunei [ITB]. The academic year for UBD, UNISSA and ITB commences in July / August 2010.

OII Summer Doctoral Programme 2010 at University of Oxford, UK

1. SDP2010: Apply / Deadline
The SDP2010 Application Form is available on the website. The application process will close at 17:00 GMT on Monday 22 February 2010. Successful applicants will be notified by 1 April 2010.

Apply for the SDP2010:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/sdp/

References will be requested from one or more of the students` current doctoral supervisors. All teaching will be in English, so all applicants should be able to demonstrate their competence in this language.

2. Candidates: What are we looking for?

Universiti Brunei Darussalam Doctoral Scholarships Programme 2009/2010

Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) is once again offering its prestigious Doctoral Scholarships Programme (UBD DSP) to enhance UBD`s ability to attract academically outstanding international PhD scholars, as part of its efforts to make the university a regional and international centre of excellence in research and higher education.

The UBD Doctoral Scholarships Programme is designed to attract world class doctoral students who are able to show a very high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences, business and economics, Malay/Brunei studies, language skills and communication, and education, by offering students financial assistance during their doctoral studies.

International Graduate Program on Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Saitama University. In this prospectus you will find all the necessary information about the program for prospective international students. The program offers excellent opportunities to highly qualified international students for pursuing graduate studies and research in the field of Civil and Environmental Engineering. This program first started accepting students in 1992 and has since awarded Master’s and Doctorate Degrees to 268 students from 24 countries. Currently, we have 71 students from 14 countries enrolled in the program.

PhD Studentship, Equatorial Waves and Intra-seasonal Oscillations

Successful candidates will be affiliated to the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (SPMS) researching into Equatorial Waves and Intra-seasonal Oscillations.

Requirements

1. Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in meteorology, atmospheric science physics or mathematics from universities of good international standing.
2. Must possess good programming skill in Fortran and have experience with LINUX OS.

Other related research opportunities can be found at
http://www1.spms.ntu.edu.sg/~sunshine/WeatherWeb/html/job.html.

Engineering Ph.D. Scholarship in Kochi University of Technology, Southern Japan

What is Special Scholarship Program (SSP)?
Special Scholarship Program (SSP) was established in 2003 in order to support the advanced research of the university by enlisting the help of highly capable international students. Every year in April and October, the university enrolls selected foreign doctoral students under specific research projects. The students pursue the doctoral course in English while at the same time assisting their host professor as a research assistant (RA). Through this program KUT wishes to expand and deepen international ties with academic and educational institutions all over the world.

PhD Position in Applied Mathematics at Austrian Academy of Sciences

Description:
The Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) in Linz is looking for 1 PhD student in the field of the optimal control and optimisation. This position is part of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) project "Numerical verification of optimality and optimality conditions for optimal control problems".

Requirements:
A master`s degree in (applied) mathematics or a closely related field is required. The successful candidate should have an excellent background in applied mathematics, optimization, partial differential equations, and their numerics. Programming skills are desirable.