Master scholarships are open to Foreign students who have or will have completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics or computing sciences in an academic institution and have completed the first year of a Master or PhD program by September 2011. The best students will be invited to enter into the PhD program of Doctoral School MSTIC (note the possibility of joint supervision with the student's national doctoral framework, leading to both PhD grades). Student rooms, at the student lodging center, will be proposed to the selected students.
Scientific contents
The two-disciplinary international Bézout Excellence Track in both computer science and mathematics (2nd year only, i.e. corresponding to a first year of PhD) is mainly focused on:
- image processing using stochastic methods, compressed sensing
- computing sciences and biology (algorithms, graphs, applications to health domain)
- discrete geometry and applications to conception and design
- applied mathematics, mathematical finance
It combines courses from the two existing M2(*) programs in Mathematics and Computer Science: In order to obtain the Bézout Excellence Track, students will have to pass successfully one of the two masters: either the
Master of mathematics or the
Master of computer science and additionally succeed in one or two courses from the other Master.
* In the French academic system, the M2 year is the last year of tuition, were courses at research level are taught and an initiation to research (3 to 4 months in a lab) is proposed. It constitutes an introduction to doctoral work before starting a thesis.
Languages
A few courses will be taught in English, the other ones will be taught in French. It is therefore recommended to have a basic knowledge in French (nevertheless, courses for learning French and English languages will be available).
Accomodation in Marne-la-Vallée
Student rooms will be proposed, thanks to BiCi.
Application
Candidates are invited to apply by online, with gathering the following documents in a single PDF file (a free opensource software to merge pdf documents can be downloaded here):
- A curriculum vitae
- The degree certificate and a copy of significant end-of-term reports
- A cover letter presenting the motivation and the professionnal goals of the applicant
Candidates must also provide the email address of a Professor from the applicant's home institution, willing to recommend the applicant.
Online applications for September 2012 will be available from February 24 to April 3, 2012.
The results will be posted on this page during April 2012, or at the beginning of May.
