International Merit Undergraduate Scholarships 2018
The University of Sheffield, UK has been attracting high calibre international students for many years and is committed to rewarding applicants of exceptional promise and high academic standing. In 2016/17 the University of Sheffield gave away £5 million pounds worth of scholarships. As a premier league university with an outstanding reputation for teaching and research, the University of Sheffield is pleased to offer 50% merit Undergraduate Scholarships to Indian students of high academic achievement for September 2018 entry. The scholarships will take the form of a tuition fee reduction.
The University of Sheffield is also inviting applications for MSC Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience course starting in September 2018.
This course provides graduate training in computational and cognitive neuroscience.
It introduces core problems in computational neuroscience, adaptive behaviour, neuroscience, ethology, evolutionary biology, connectionism, and robotics, and introduces core techniques in experimental cognitive psychology, computer simulation and modeling, brain imaging and mathematics.
This is a full-time course taught over 12 months through lectures, seminars and laboratory classes.
Students will also complete their own independent research project, working under the close supervision of an academic member of staff.
Some of the investigative techniques covered include computational and mathematical modelling at several levels of description (from the biophysics of neural membranes to neural populations), neural network theory and learning algorithms, biomimetic robotics, anatomical tracing, multi-electrode electrophysiology, optical imaging, behavioural observation.