News: Graduate Students Fellowship Opportunities in SA & US

Guys, I thought this might be useful to some of us. I’m pretty sure some of us are either completing their studies or starting, anyway, either case; there are excellent fellowship opportunities in South Africa – African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and US - Centre for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), both are taught and research based positions with full incentives. AIMS is only for 3 months, while DIMACS is a 2-year programme.

Useful Links:
a) The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). AIMS Fellowship

b) The Centre for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS).
DIMACS Fellowship

News: IEEE EUROCON 2007 Conference

We would like to encourage you to submit a paper to IEEE EUROCON 2007 International Conferenceon Computer as a Tool, which will take place in Warsaw, Poland on September 9-12, 2007, and to let your colleagues know about it. We expect to have a great conference, which will certainly benefit even more from your technical participation.

- paper upload system: http://eurocon2007.isep.pw.edu.pl/index.php?id=pap_upload.php


The proposed tracks are:

1. System Design
2. Signal and Image Processing
3. Computer Engineering
4. Measurements and Sensors
5. Computational Intelligence and Control
6. Telecommunication and Multimedia Systems
7. Photonics
8. Power Systems and Power Electronics
9. Electrical Machines and Drives
10. Electron Devices
11. Modeling and Simulation
12. Education

The above listed topics do not exclude submission and presentation of papers
from other specific fields close to or related to the general theme of the Conference.

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All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore database and EI Compendex, the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering databases in the world.
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Best papers will be recommended for publication in IEEE Transactions,
Electrotechnical Review, Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences and in a few others.
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The EUROCON 2007 deadlines are as follows:

Submission of full papers: January 31st, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2007
Camera ready papers and registration: May 31st, 2007

“Writing up Psychosis”

It's really an “exasperating period” writing up, everyone I know or have talked to, has complained, or shown one form of frustration or another! For me, I use the tips... on the article "How to write your PhD in 5 minute a day ...", not sure of the exact title of the article now..., to try to write something always, no matter how little I write everyday, irrespective of how I feel about my writing.

Tips:
a) Free-writing: Try writing whatever comes to your head, sometimes, you might find the materials you've written useful, but often times, they are not, but they can be excellent pointers (new ideas) that require further developing.

b) Avoiding reading through what you've written until you’ve finished putting down all you can remember. This will help you avoid the “distraction” of going over what you’ve already written and loosing the “freshly conceived” – new ideas that should be put down to paper.

c) I've done a couple of draft chapters … but each time I read through them, I see potentially new things I can say, sometimes, off the point, really. It sounds farmilar. Does it?