Subject: 4 Ph.D. Scholarships at MTG Barcelona, deadline 4/21/07 From: Dan Ellis <dpwe@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:20:42 -1000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear List - Hendrik Purwins sent me this notice of several positions available at UPF in Barcelona. Best, DAn. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hendrik Purwins <hpurwins@xxxxxxxx> 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