Schlumberger Foundation Fellowships 2015–2016: Call for applications
The Schlumberger Foundation is accepting new applications for the 2015–2016 Faculty for the Future Fellowships from September 10th to November 14th, 2014. The Faculty for the Future program, launched in 2004, awards fellowships to women from developing and emerging economies to pursue PhD or Post-doctorate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines at […]
Master’s program in Simulation Sciences (Germany)
Simulation Sciences is an interdisciplinary, accredited Master’s program taught in English for highly-qualified holders of a Bachelor’s degree in a science or engineering subject. The course is organized by the German Research School for Simulation Sciences, the degree is awarded by RWTH Aachen University. Simulation sciences is taken to mean those disciplines which, on the […]
Doctoral position in in Adaptive Mesh Refinement in Space-time Finite Element Meshes (Germany)
Many application areas in process and material engineering require the modelling and simulation of moving phase interfaces. The filling phase in injection moulding or high-pressure die casting can serve as examples. The main aim of the current project is the development and implementation of an adaptive refinement scheme in space, but particularly also in time, […]
PhD Position at the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
At TU Dresden, the Cluster of Excellence ‘Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden’ (cfaed) offers a fixed-term PhD position (E 13 TV-L) Topic: Basic circuits of chemical logic cfaed Investigators: Prof. Andreas Richter, Prof. Christof Fetzer cfaed research area: Chemical Information Processing Path Terms: 75% of the fulltime weekly hours, start asap, limited for 30 months. The period of […]
Doctoral offers at the German Research School for Simulation Sciences
The doctoral offers of the German Research School for Simulation Sciences are intended to give excellent graduate students from all over the world the opportunity to participate in strongly-interdisciplinary research in the fast-evolving field of simulation sciences. The day-to-day language of the German Research School for Simulation Sciences as a whole is English. Doctoral candidates […]
Ebola: la fièvre est africaine. Mais la mobilisation est occidentale
Curieuse Afrique! L’histoire se répète d’une crise à une autre. Depuis quelques semaines, les organisations humanitaires européennes et américaines actives sur le continent tirent la sonnette d’alarme sur les risques de famine auxquels faisaient face certains États. En effet, selon le Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires (OCHA) de l’ONU, les conditions climatiques et les guerres en […]
Maladie à virus Ebola: questions-réponses
1. Qu’est-ce que la maladie à virus Ebola? La maladie à virus Ebola (auparavant appelée fièvre hémorragique à virus Ebola) est une maladie grave, souvent mortelle, dont le taux de létalité peut atteindre 90%. Elle touche l’homme et les primates (singes, gorilles et chimpanzés). Elle est apparue pour la première fois en 1976, lors de […]
Enko is Launching a New International Programme in Cameroon
Monday the 1st of September 2014 Announcement Enko la Gaite is introducing a new English programme that covers classes from O’Level to Upper 6. The programme facilitates entrance to universities in the United States of America, Canada, South Africa, England and so forth. Enko la Gaite leads to the well known international Baccalaureate that is […]
L’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) publie son premier rapport sur le suicide: Alarmant!
Selon une étude de l’OMS, « plus de 800 000 personnes par an meurent en se suicidant et le nombre des tentatives est encore beaucoup plus élevé». Selon ladite étude, « 75% des suicides ont eu lieu dans les pays à revenu faible ou intermédiaire en 2012. Le suicide a été à l’origine de 1,4% […]