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[Mike Denham]

Research Scholarships 

Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
University of Plymouth, UK

A number of University Research Scholarships are available for
students wishing to study for a PhD in the Centre starting in
September/October 2003. The scholarships cover full tuition fees for
three years plus an annual living-expenses stipend of 9000. Further
support for living expenses is usually available via teaching
assistantships.
 
The Centre specialises in the application of rigorous quantitative,
mathematical and physical approaches, including mathematical and
computational modelling and psychophysics, to understanding
information coding, processing, storage and transmission in the brain
and its manifestation in perception and action. Areas of study
include: visual and auditory perception and psychophysics;
sensory-motor control, in particular oculomotor control; and
mathematical and computational modelling of the cortical neural
circuitry underlying perception, attention, learning and memory, and
motor control. PhD students will work under the supervision of one of
the following academic staff in the Centre: Prof Jochen Braun
(vision); Dr Susan Denham (audition); Prof Chris Harris (sensory-motor
control); Prof Roman Borisyuk (mathematical and computational
modelling); Prof Mike Denham (mathematical and computational
modelling).

The Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience is a new
research centre in the University of Plymouth, emerging from the
previous Centre for Neural and Adaptive Systems
(http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/soc/research/neural/research.html), where
the home pages of the above academic staff can be found (the new
centre's website is currently under construction). There is currently
a thriving community of five postdocs and ten research students in the
Centre, working in the above fields. The Centre has a number of
externally-funded research programmes and strong international links,
including with the Institute of Neuroinformatics at ETH, Zurich, and
the Koch laboratory at Caltech. The Centre will be located from April
2003 in a brand new building complex on the University campus which
will also house the departments of Computing, Psychology and
Biological Sciences and part of the new Medical School. The new
self-contained accommodation for the Centre will include office space
for all academic staff, postdocs and research students, a library and
meeting room, a 40-seater seminar room, and vision, audition and
sensory-motor psychophysics labs.

The University of Plymouth is one of the largest UK universities, with
about 25,000 students, some 16,000 of which are accommodated in the
city centre campus in Plymouth. It is located in a beautiful part of
the southwest of England, close to outstanding countryside, moorland,
river estuaries, historical towns and villages and excellent beaches,
including some of the best surfing beaches in Europe. It also offers
extensive water sports facilities, including diving and sailing.

Interested applicants for these Research Scholarships must first make
application to the University and to the Centre for admission to its
PhD programme. Initially this can be done by sending an email to the
Head of the Centre, Professor Mike Denham (mdenham at plym.ac.uk),
including a brief statement of research interests and a short
curriculum vitae, plus postal address. Applicants will then be sent
formal admission application forms.

Note: The closing date for University Scholarship applications is 31st
March 2003. Applications for admission to the University's PhD
programme should be made well in advance of this date, ideally by the
end of February.

Professor Mike Denham
Centre for Theoretical and Compuational Neuroscience
University of Plymouth
Plymouth PL4 8AA
UK

tel: +44 (0)1752 232547
fax: +44 (0)1752 232540
email: mdenham at plym.ac.uk