The School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham invites applications for 3 PhD studentships. The studentships are for 3.5 years and include UK Pounds 13,290 per year maintenance grant and UK/EU tuition fees. The applicants need to apply through the University's postgraduate admissions system: http://pgstudy.nottingham.ac.uk/apply-for-postgraduate-courses.aspx The deadline for applications is the 8th of January 2010. The applications are invited in the areas listed below. Please contact the academics listed for the research area first if you are interested in applying for a PhD in their area. Functional Programming (contact Henrik Nilsson, Graham Hutton, Thorsten Altenkirch, Venanzio Capretta: {nhn, gmh, txa, vxc} at cs.nott.ac.uk) Computational Photography and Content-based Image Retrieval (contact Guoping Qiu, qiu at cs.nott.ac.uk) Computer Vision and Graphics (contact Bai Li, bai at cs.nott.ac.uk) Computational Finance (contact Rong Qu, rxq at cs.nott.ac.uk) Adaptive and Learning Systems (contact Jon Garibaldi, jmg at cs.nott.ac.uk) Intelligent Agents (contact Brian Logan and Natasha Alechina, {bsl, nza} at cs.nott.ac.uk) Computational Systems and Synthetic Biology (contact Natalio Krasnogor, nxk at cs.nott.ac.uk) Simulation of Complex Systems and Computational Modelling and Data Mining (contact Uwe Aickelin, uxa at cs.nott.ac.uk) Data mining (contact Jaume Bacardit, jqb at cs.nott.ac.uk) Document Engineering (contact Steven Bagley, srb at cs.nott.ac.uk) Opportunistic networking (contact Milena Radenkovic, mvr at cs.nott.ac.uk) Reactive Environments (contact Holger Schnadelbach, Dave Kirk: hms,dsk at cs.nott.ac.uk) Intelligent Multilevel Search Methodologies (contact Ender Ozcan, exo at cs.nott.ac.uk) -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor Uwe Aickelin School of Computer Science The University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK. tel: +44 (0)115 95 14215 e-mail: [log in to unmask] web: http://www.aickelin.com ________________________________________________________________