France: Eiffel Scholarships for International Students

Deadline: 9th January 2013

The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs launched the Eiffel excellence scholarship programme in January 1999 to support French centres of higher education in their international outreach initiatives, in a context of mounting competition among developed countries, to attract elite overseas students on master's, engineering and  PhD courses.

Calendar Session 2013/2014

• Online of applications: September 26^th, 2012
• Deadline for receipt of applications by Campus France : January 9^th, 2013
• Announcement of results: Week of March 18^th, 2013

Rules

• Eiffel Programme guide – 2013/2014 Session PDF format
• Eiffel Programme guide – 2012/2013 Session PDF format

Application Forms

• Application Form for Master level to download in PDF format (in french only)
• Application Form for Doctoral level to download in PDF format (in french only)

IMPORTANT: You must fill in the PDF form and upload it together with attachments on this page (see User’s Guides below).

FURTHER DETAILS

EU: 13 Ph.D and 5 Post-Doc positions in COPA-GT (Coupled Parallel Simulation of Gas Turbines), A project of CERFACS, Jan 2012-Dec 2015

This is an EU project, where these positions are currently opened.

COPA-GT is a Marie Curie - Initial Training Network funded under the 7th Framework.

For details on Projects, deadlines and How to APPLY, Follow the link below.

http://copagt.cerfacs.fr/positions.html

PhD position in Semi-decentralized distributed control

Deadline: 9th July 2012
Nationality: International
Destination Country: France





The goal of this PhD is to study the design and the implementation of generic control algorithms for systems composed of distributed MEMS in a semi-centralized context (i.e. only the direct neighbors can communicate).

Experiments will concern the “active skin” developed by the Mechanics department in the context of the Labex project ACTION (see icb.u-bourgogne.fr/labex/index.html). First of all, this platform will be adapted by a student master. Currently, this system performs distributed control close to noise propagating in a nozzle. The control is handled by microphones and speakers disposed along the nozzle boundary. It is computed in real time by a network of independent microcontrollers, each of them being associated with a couple of sensor and actuator. So the challenge is to introduce the possibility of communications between neighbor microcontrollers in order to implement control laws based on communications between neighbors.

The thesis will consist in a theoretical study of distributed control laws suited for the platform and their approximation for an implementation on the microcontrollers network.


Required skills: The candidate must have strong skills in Mathematics especially in Partial Differential Equations and in Computer Science.

Application: 

Please email a CV and a letter outlining your areas of research interest, along with names and contact details of two referees who can comment on your academic suitability to:

raphael.couturier@univ-fcomte.fr, michel.lenczner@utbm.fr