"Geometric parameterization for aircraft design optimization" Student internship, 5 months, starts March 2008. Location: Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Kista (Stockholm). www.foi.se The parameterization of surfaces and curves, or deformation of those, is used in software for industrial design (CAD, design optimization) as well as for animating pictures, to name just but a few examples. You will participate in the evaluation and in the development of our methods of parameterization, based on Radial Basis Functions (RBF) or on Partial Differential Equations (PDE), which are used in projects of aerodynamic shape optimization of aircraft components. In order to evaluate the different methods you will use our programs of Computational Fluid Dynamics and shape optimization. The development work requires that the applicant has some knowledge in the following subjects: numerical optimization, discretization of PDEs, linear algebra. For information contact O.Amoignon +46-8-55503230. Send your application to olivier.amoignon@foi.se