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Friday, April 23, 2010

Norway: PhD Research Fellow in Computational Mathematics

Overview

The Department of Informatics (IFI) is one of nine departments belonging to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. IFI is Norway¿s largest university department for broad education and research in Computer Science and related topics. You can read more about the Department here: http://www.ifi.uio.no. The Department has near 800 students on bachelor level, 300 master students, and over 200 PhD students. The overall staff of the Department is close to 250 employees, about 150 of these are full time scientific positions: about 60 Full/Associate Professors and about 90 PhD Fellows/Post Doctoral Fellows.
The fellowship is for a period of up to 4 years, with 25 % compulsory work. Starting date no later than 1 October, 2010.

Job description

The fellowship is located to the Automated Computing group at the Center for Biomedical Computing hosted by Simula Research Laboratory (http://www.simula.no/research/acdc/).
The proposed research project is titled Computability and stability of dynamical systems.

Physical processes are often modeled by dynamical systems, either in the form of ordinary or partial differential equations. The computability of such systems, that is, the possibility of evolving the dynamical system to a time T without loss of accuracy is a profound question that remains open for many important applications, including weather forecasting, financial markets and turbulent flow. One example of such a system is the Lorenz system which is a seemingly simple system of three ordinary differential equations introduced by Edward Lorenz in 1963 as a simple model of atmospheric flow. The Lorenz system exhibits chaotic flow and is generally (but falsely) believed to not be computable, or computable only over short time intervals. The proposed research project seeks to study and quantify in detail the computability of the Lorenz system and other important dynamical systems.

Applicants may submit a project proposal for the qualifying work during the program. The project proposal should include research topic, main issues, as well as choice of theory and method.


Requirements

- Applicants must hold a Master¿s degree or equivalent in mathematics, numerical mathematics, computer science or physics.
- The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.
- The fellowship requires admission to the research training programme at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. An approved plan for the research training, including a project outline, must be submitteed no later than two months after taking up the position, and the admission must be approved within three months.

For more information see: http://www.uio.no/admhb/reglhb/personal/tilsettingvitenskapelig/regulationstermcondition.xml

A good command of English is required of all students attending the University of Oslo.

http://www.matnat.uio.no/english/research/education/proficiency_in_English.html

Salary:

PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017), pay grade: 45-51 (NOK 355 400 ¿ 394 200 per year, depending on seniority/qualifications)
The application must include:

- Application letter
- CV (summarizing education, positions and academic work - scientific publications)
- Copies of educational certificates and letters of recommendation
- List of publications and academic work that the applicant wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee
- Names and contact details of 2-3 references (name, relation to candidate, e-mail and telephone number)

Foreign applicants are advised to attach an explanation of their University¿s grading system. Please remember that all documents should be in English or a Scandinavian language.

Closing date for applications: 15 May, 2010

The University of Oslo has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results a.o.

The University of Oslo has a goal of recruiting more women in academic positions.
Women are encouraged to apply.

The University of Oslo also has a goal of recruiting ethnic minorities to Norway in academic positions.

Ethnic minorities are encouraged to apply. Application form


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