4 Ph.D. Scholarships at MTG Barcelona, deadline 4/21/07

[Dan Ellis <dpwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List -

Hendrik Purwins sent me this notice of several positions available at
UPF in Barcelona.

Best,

 DAn.

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From: Hendrik Purwins <hpurwins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Apr 17, 2007 7:31 AM
Subject: 4 Ph.D. Scholarships at MTG Barcelona, deadline 4/21/07

The Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Pompeu Fabra University in
Barcelona is offering 4 Ph.D.
fellowships to start in September 2007 to work in the areas of:

  * Computational Models of Music Cognition
  * Music Information Retrieval
  * Content-based Voice Transformation and Characterization
  * Polyphonic Audio Description

The Music Technology Group (http://mtg.upf.edu/pages/research) specializes
in audio processing technologies and their music and multimedia
applications. Specific areas of interest of the group are: audio
processing and synthesis,
music information retrieval, singing voice processing, music cognition
models, and interactive systems.
More information.

The applicants should send a CV and a covering letter to:

Prof. Xavier Serra
Music Technology Group
Pompeu Fabra University
Barcelona, Spain
xserra at iua.upf.edu

At the same time the candidates will have to apply and be accepted in the
PhD in Sound and Music Computing of the Department of Technology:
http://mtg.upf.edu/pages/news/single?id=58
http://www.iua.upf.es/dtecn/index.php?phd=1
The deadline is 21st of April, 2007.
The PhD is devoted to carry out a PhD thesis and depending
on his/her academic background a candidate may be asked to enroll in the
Master in Information,
Communication and Audiovisual Media before being accepted to carry out
the PhD Thesis.
Also the Graduate Studies Committee of the Department or the PhD
supervisor may ask a student
to take specific Master courses, to complement education.


Hendrik Purwins