MSc/PhD study in Cognitive Science, Edinburgh

[Centre for Cognitive Science]

			   POSTGRADUATE STUDY
				 IN THE
		      CENTRE FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE
				 AT THE
			UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH


      Cognitive Psychology            Neural Computation
      Computational Linguistics       Formal Logic
      Data Intensive Linguistics      Logic Programming
      Theoretical Linguistics         & Knowledge Representation

The Centre for Cognitive Science (CCS) offers a programme of
postgraduate study in cognitive science, centred on language and
cognition.  The programme leads to the degrees of MSc in Cognitive
Science and Natural Language, MPhil or PhD.

CCS is committed to research and postgraduate teaching in cognitive
science at international level.  The work of the Centre is at the heart
of Edinburgh's view of *informatics* -- the study of the structure,
behaviour, and design of computational systems, both natural and
artificial.  CCS has a well-developed system of collaboration with
departments within Informatics (Artificial Intelligence, Computer
Science) and beyond (Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology).

The Centre's lecturers and research fellows work with over 60
postgraduates in a rich and varied intellectual and social environment.
Regular interdisciplinary research workshops, in which students actively
participate, focus on current problems in cognitive science.  Visiting
researchers contribute to a lively seminar series.  Research projects,
many of them collaborative with other European centres of excellence,
have been funded by the UK research councils ESRC, EPSRC and MRC as well
as by the European Union LRE and ESPRIT programmes in such areas as
natural language understanding and computational neuroscience.

Teaching staff: [with associated departments]

Ewan Klein  Head of Department
   linguistic theory, phonology
Chris Brew [HCRC]
   corpora, data intensive linguistics, language technology
Jo Calder [HCRC]
   grammar formalisms, computational linguistics
Matthew Crocker [ESRC Fellow]
   statistical language processing, computational psycholinguistics
Mark Ellison
   computational phonology and morphology, natural computation
Bruce Graham
   computational neuroscience, neural networks
Alexander Holt
   natural language semantics, computational linguistics
Alex Lascarides [HCRC]
   lexical and discourse processing, semantics, pragmatics
Paul Schweizer  PhD Organiser
   philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language
Richard Shillcock  MSc Course Organiser
   psycholinguistics, cognitive modelling, cognitive neuropsychology
Keith Stenning [HCRC]
   human memory, inference, connectionism

Associates and Fellows:

Sheila Glasbey  EPSRC Fellow
M. Louise Kelly [Linguistics]
Robert Ladd [Linguistics]
John Lee [HCRC]
Chris Mellish [Artificial Intelligence]
Jon Oberlander [HCRC]
Massimo Poesio   EPSRC Fellow
David Willshaw [MRC]

Human Communication Research Centre: The HCRC is a centre of excellence
    in the interdisciplinary study of cognition and computation in human
    communication, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
    (UK).  Drawing together researchers from Edinburgh, Glasgow and
    Durham, HCRC focuses on the psychological aspects of real language
    processing.  HCRC shares a site with CCS, and the two contribute
    towards a joint research environment.

Studying in Edinburgh: Edinburgh contains the largest concentration of
    expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
    in Europe.  Students have access to that expertise, to Edinburgh's
    large copyright libraries, and within Cognitive Science, to a
    substantial offprint library.  The department possesses extensive
    computing facilities based on a network of Sun workstations and
    Apple Macintoshes; access to Edinburgh's concurrent supercomputer
    and other central computing services is easily arranged.

Requirements: Applicants typically have a first degree in one of the
    participating areas or an appropriate joint honours degree.

Funding: UK and EU students following the MSc and PhD courses are
    eligible to apply for studentships.  CCS will advise all students
    concerning funding possibilities.  CCS attracts studentships from a
    variety of UK and non-UK funding bodies.  Non-UK applicants with
    sufficient background may enroll as non-graduating students.

If you would like more information about the Postgraduate Programme in
Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh, please contact:

    Admissions
    Centre for Cognitive Science
    University of Edinburgh
    2 Buccleuch Place
    Edinburgh EH8 9LW
    UK

    Telephone: +44 131 650 4667
    Fax:       +44 131 650 6626
    Email:     info at cogsci.ed.ac.uk

    WWW:       http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/