AF Pillow Postgraduate Top-Up Scholarship

The AF Pillow Applied Mathematics Trust offers an annual ‘top-up’ scholarship to a student holding either an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) or equivalent award for full-time research in Applied Mathematics leading to the award of a PhD.  The aim of the A F Pillow Applied Mathematics Top-up Scholarship is to increase the quantity and quality of postgraduate students in the field of applied mathematics in Australia.

In 2010, one top-up scholarship will be awarded.

Eligibility

• Prospective or current (1st 6 months) PhD students in a field of Applied Mathematics at an Australian University and resident within Australia for the duration of the PhD candidature
• Prospective PhD candidates holding or applying for an APA or equivalent award with strong undergraduate academic training in the field of Applied Mathematics are eligible to apply.  Applicants will ordinarily be completing their Honours degree, although current PhD students who have completed no more than 6 months of their PhD candidature at the application closure date are also encouraged to apply.
• Part-time PhD candidates are not eligible to apply.

Guidelines

Download Scholarship Guidelines [PDF] [RTF]

Download 'What Is Applied Mathematics' by AF Pillow manuscript (PDF, 804 kb)

Applications

Download Application Form [PDF] [RTF]

Closing Date

Friday 6 November 2009