The University of Calabria invites applications for 4 PhD scholarships for the incoming
2008 class of the Doctoral School in Systems Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics,
Operations Research.

The school has been activated in 2008 by the two largest departments of the University
of Calabria: the  Department of Mathematics (www.mat.unical.it) and the  Department
of Electronics, Informatics and Systems Engineering (www.deis.unical.it).

The school features three PhD programs:
  - Doctoral Program in Mathematics and Informatics
  - Doctoral Program in Systems Engineering and Informatics
  - Doctoral Program in Operations Research
  
The PhD period will be 3 years.

The University of Calabria will provide two (2) successful candidates with a grant.
For all the successful candidates, the University of Calabria is likely to cover
living expensenses (mensa + accommodation in the campus).

PhD positions are offered in a good working environment with excellent possibilities
for professional development.

Successful candidates in Informatics (with projects focused on AI and Computational Logics)
will join the Database and Artificial Intelligence group of the Department of Mathematics,
led by Nicola Leone (www.mat.unical.it/~leone).
The group has deep knowledge in several AI areas, which are investigated with respect to
their theoretical aspects and their formal foundations as well as with the respect to the
design of practical applications most often carried out in tight coupling with industrial partners.
In particular, members of the group conduct high-level research in the development of
innovative infrastructure for knowledge representation and reasoning, and have achieved
important results in developing non-monotonic reasoning systems.  

Requirements
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Only non-italian citizens (from within European Community as well as from outside) are
allowed to submit.
The required qualification for being eligible for the program is a Master's Degree,
or equivalent. A three-year degree is not sufficient.

Applications
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We are looking for highly-motivated, dedicated candidates that are interested in
research in the following fields: Informatics, Telecommunications, Control Theory,
Electric Systems and Measures, ICT, Operations Research, Optimization, Management
Science, Logistics, Simulation, Algebra, Geometry, History of Mathematics, Mathematical
Analysis, Probability and Statistics, Mathematical Physics, and Numerical Analysis.

Candidates are requested to:
- Properly fill in the online form available at  http://unical.ugmanager.it
- Send a notice of the application to  isimr@mat.unical.it, and annex the following deliverables:
    (1) Curriculum Vitae (conforming to the tamplate available at https://www.mat.unical.it/doctoralschool/Admissions)
    (2) Research project (3 pages max)
    (3) Presentation letter (2 pages max)
    (4) List of passed university exams, with scores

The deadline is 2008-02-15 (February 15th, 2008), 12:00 CET.

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For forther information, please refer to: https://www.mat.unical.it/doctoralschool