Studentships at Centre for Doctoral Training Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology

Doctoral studentships
The Centre for Doctoral Training Science and Engineering in Arts,
    Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA)

The Centre for Doctoral Training Science and Engineering in Arts,
Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) at UCL, University of Oxford and
University of Brighton is delighted to be offering four
exceptionally exciting doctoral studentships:

"Making the Antikythera Mechanism: Rebuilding Technology that
    changed History"

    <URL:http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/P32_Making-the-Antikythera-Mechanism-FINAL.pdf>

    This studentship offers an outstanding opportunity to explore
    the making of the Antikythera Mechanism, an extraordinary
    ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine.  This is a
    unique and exciting cross-disciplinary research program, focused
    on answering key issues, such as how the Mechanism was
    constructed, calibrated and used.  X-ray CT and surface imaging
    data, gathered in 2005, reveal the details of each component and
    will form the basis of experimental models, designed to
    investigate the early language of mechanical engineering and the
    first steps in the development of computing machines.  The
    project will be jointly supervised by University College London,
    Matelect Ltd and the Computer History Museum in California.

    Application deadline: open until filled.

"Mass digitization and metadata enrichment of 3D cultural heritage
    artefacts by automatic and user-based metadata acquisition"

    <URL:http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/P20_Mass-digitization-and-metadata-enrichment-of-3D-cultural-heritage-artefacts-FINAL.pdf>

    This research project seeks to develop new methods to improve
    and speed-up metadata acquisition for digitised 3D cultural
    heritage artefacts.  The work will build on a web-based
    3D-centered annotation platform which the Fraunhofer Institute
    for Computer Graphics Research IGD (Fraunhofer-IGD) has
    developed alongside a new device capable of supporting a
    "conveyor belt" approach to the digitisation of 3D objects.  The
    project will be jointly supervised by Fraunhofer-IGD, the
    University of Brighton and partner cultural organisations

    Application deadline: open until filled.

"Mary Rose: Assessment of Environmental Risks during Display"

    <URL:http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/P29-Mary-Rose_Assessment-of-Environmental-Risks-during-Display-FINAL.pdf>

    This exciting project aims to understand the environment
    surrounding the Mary Rose, the Tudor warship salvaged in 1982 in
    one of the most complex and ambitious projects of maritime
    archaeology.  The student involved in this innovative research
    will study the gaseous pollutants of outdoor origin and
    generated indoors due to the decay of archaeological wood, and
    will investigate their unknown effects on the exposed materials.
    This project combines the expertise on sensors of the National
    Physical Laboratory, materials and environment of UCL, and
    conservation knowledge of the Mary Rose Trust.

    Application deadline: open until filled.

"Strain modelling in historical tapestries"

    <URL:http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/P1-2015-Advert-FINAL2.pdf>

    This studentship will investigate cutting edge real-time in-situ
    tri-axial strain monitoring sensors to provide data to inform
    analytical modelling of tapestries using Finite Elements and
    explicit mathematical formulations together with modern Dynamic
    Equilibrium methods used in fabric simulations.  The project
    will be jointly supervised by the UCL Department of Civil,
    Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL Institute for
    Sustainable Heritage, Historic Royal Palaces and IBM T.J. Watson
    Research Center.

    Application deadline: open until filled.

For more information please visit the SEAHA Website:

    <URL:http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/opportunities/>

For all enquiries please contact the SEAHA Centre Manager:
manager<-at->seaha-cdt<.>ac<.>uk


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