PhD | University of Bristol, Centre for Complexity Sciences

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5 September, 2008

FindAPhD > University of Bristol, Centre for Complexity Sciences - 4 Year PhD Programme

Open Day: 23rd April 2008

The Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences (BCCS) is a highly interdisciplinary centre for training and research funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated students who want to take up the many challenges and open problems in Complexity Sciences. You will study and work in a multidisciplinary environment, interacting with leading scientists from the UK and abroad.

The Doctoral Training Centre funds up to 15 new PhDs per year:

Each PhD is of 4 years duration, with a high quality taught element in the first year.
PhD students are supervised by leading scientists and engineers in the UK.

Stipends are available for the brightest and best UK graduates (~£14,000 in 2007/08). EU students may also be eligible to apply for a limited number of grants.

A major collaboration across 4 faculties within the University of Bristol, the BCCS aims to nurture the next generation of scientists and engineers in the most challenging areas of the emerging science of Complexity.

The vision for the BCCS is based on the notion that, whereas application areas in modern science and engineering abound with problems in complexity, the theory requires considerable development.

We are developing a hub of theoretical and computational expertise that connects a web of challenging application areas. The most important strategic innovation for the organisation of the centre is in this combination of application areas surrounding a hub of theoretical and computational expertise.

Application areas will drive theoretical and computational development by issuing challenges to the hub, which in turn will identify new commonalities between the application areas that can be pushed outwards to solve application-oriented problems. This virtuous cycle will generate world-leading advances in both theory and applications.

The Centre provides highly interdisciplinary doctoral training for a selected group of extremely high calibre and motivated PhD students, fostering links between the theoretical hub and application areas so that students emerge 'speaking two languages'.

The course consists of a 15 month taught element followed by a 33 month PhD. The structure of the training course is highly innovative involving taught courses, projects, summer schools, seminars and workshops.

Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Queen's Building, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR
Tel: +44 (0) 117 928 9734, Fax: +44 (0) 117 954 6833

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