[alife] PhD in Collective Behaviour and Robotics

[James Marshall]

Dear colleagues,
 please bring this PhD opportunity to the attention of potential students. Fees are paid at UK/EU citizen rates so this is not well-suited to international applicants. Closing date for applications is February 2nd 2016.

PhD in Collective Behaviour and Robotics
A studentship is available as part of a cohort within Computer Science at Sheffield. The successful candidate will join the ERC-funded 'Distributed Optimal Decision-Making Algorithms' (DiODe) project based in Sheffield Robotics. The exact PhD topic is subject to negotiation, but will focus on noise and dynamics of collective decision-making systems, including the potential to develop and run experiments on up to 1,000 collectively acting Kilobots. Applications are welcomed from graduates with maths, physics, computer science or general engineering backgrounds, and the topic will be either theoretical, practical (with robots) or a mixture of the two to suit the candidate's skills and interests.
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Prof James Marshall to discuss their applications. Applications are to be submitted via the cohort application process, taking care to identify the supervisor and topic: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/resdegrees/phd-studentships-2016/project-list <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/resdegrees/phd-studentships-2016/project-list>

 Best wishes,
	James Marshall

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James A. R. Marshall
Professor of Theoretical and Computational Biology
Behavioural and Evolutionary Theory Lab
University of Sheffield
http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/J.Marshall/