Scholarship for MSc students
in Algebraic Geometry in Warsaw
The scholarships are offered within the Sonata Bis grant "Complex contact manifolds and geometry of secants (CoCoMaGeS)" supported by NCN (National Science Center, Poland).
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
www.impan.pl
announces an open call for
up to 2 scholarships for MSc students.
Details and conditions:
- Default periods of the scholarship: October 2021 - September 2022 or January 2022 - December 2022 (both 12 months).
- At the starting date the applicant must be enrolled to an MSc program at a Polish University at a department specialising in mathematics (or very close areas of science).
- Candidates are expected to have at least basic knowledge of algebraic geometry or properly demonstrate their interest in learning this branch of mathematics.
- The successful candidate is expected to prepare his/her Master thesis under the supervision of one of the CoCoMaGeS team members:
- Each successful student will receive a scholarship of 1000PLN per month.
- In addition, the student will be granted a limited access to research costs, such as travel to conferences etc.
Formalities:
The fellow must respect the NCN rules of funding,
including those listed on page 7 of this document.
In particular, no salary from NCN is allowed at the same time as his/her scholarship in the project (page 7, subsection 2.1.3, item (b)).
Also this document is relevant to the recruitment process.
Each application should contain
- basic personal data, including name(s), surname, date of birth, e-mail, and possibly other contact data,
- information about candidate's studies,
such as the date of commencement, department(s),
the list of advanced lectures attended by the candidate,
- information about candidate's scientific achievements,
such as average grade from previous academic years, grades of last term (semester),
information about BSc thesis (praca licencjacka) with a link to the thesis itself,
awards and distinctions, scholarships, and other information the applicant finds relevant,
- a brief description of candidate's mathematical interests and/or plans (or expectation) for his/her Master thesis and the preferred supervisor.
- All the documents above must be submited in Polish or in English.
Applications should be submitted before September 20, 2021
via e-mail to the principal investigator of the project Jarosław Buczyński, jabu@mimuw.edu.pl,
with the subject line containing the project abbreviation "[CoCoMaGeS]".
All other related inquiries should also be sent in the same way.
The applications will be analysed by the committee of Jarosław Buczyński (chair), Joachim Jelisiejew, and Magdalena Zielenkiewicz.
The committee reserves the right to interview the best candidates prior to the decision. The invitations for the interview, if any, will arrive as soon as possible and the interviews will be conducted using zoom.
The decisions should be sent before October 1st, 2021.
Additional information
See also this announcement for an analogous scholarship from the project of Joachim Jelisiejew about Generalizations and applications of Bialynicki-Birula decomposition.
You may apply for both with the same paperwork at the same time by indicating it in your cover letter. However, if successful, you should choose one project, therefore in your application please indicate the prefered project.
