The University of Padova, Italy, sponsored by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, will offer 15 fully funded grants for foreign (non-Italian) graduate students starting doctoral courses in January 2009. The grants include all University and Department fees, full board at the University accommodation and provide an additional personal scholarship of 10.561,54

The department of Maths and Computer Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium has an open position for a PhD student (full-time) in the PATS research group of Prof C. Blondia and B. Van Houdt.

In principle, it concerns a four year position (with an initial one year contract).

The topic of the open position is located within the area of scheduling algorithms and more specifically mainly concerns designing fast scheduling solutions for loading container vessels in the port of Antwerp.
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Function details:

This person will work in the High-Productivity Machines department and will analyze electrical drive motor combinations for varying load profiles of customer machines to optimize the energy efficiency. He/she will define and develop methodologies and (software) tools to offer to the FMTC member companies to help them define optimal drive motor configurations for different machines and applications.

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