Dear category theorists, Vladimir Guletskii was asking me to post to the category list the links about a Ph.D. scholarship in Liverpool, England on the interface of the theory of motives in algebraic geometry with the study of (stable) model categories (typically with tensor product). http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/studentships/EPSRC_PhD_Studentshi... http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADL026/epsrc-phd-studentship http://homotopical.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/phd-position-in-motivic-homotopy... One might also want to compare ideas about noncommutative motives which are, according to Volodya, also relevant. He adds a remark: There is some difference between the overseas fees and the home fees, but (a) citizens of EU do not have to pay it, and (b) our department here can sort out the difference between fees anyway. Volodya also calls our attention to the closeness of some relevant content to the ideas in John Baez's presentation on the zeta-function http://ncatlab.org/johnbaez/show/Zeta+functions Please forward this to the possibly interested students. Zoran Škoda [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]