POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL AND SPATIAL STATISTIC

["Guido Consonni" <gconsonni@eco.unipv.it>]

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL AND SPATIAL  STATISTICS

Applications are invited for at least seven postdoctoral fellowships
in Computational and Spatial Statistics, funded by the TMR programme
of the European Union. They form part of a scheme to support young
researchers in a group of European universities participating in the
network in Statistical and Computational Methods for the Analysis of
Spatial Data. The lengths and dates of appointments are flexible, but
it is anticipated that each fellowship will last for between six
months and two years. This will be the second wave of appointments,
and  the researchers appointed will normally be expected to start any
time in 1999. Fellowships will be tenable within the participating
research teams, headed by the listed coordinators, of the following
institutions:

Lancaster, UK (Peter Diggle, e-mail P.Diggle@lancaster.ac.uk)

Cambridge, UK  (Alastair Young, e-mail alastair@statslab.cam.ac.uk)

Aalborg, Denmark (Jesper Moller, e-mail jm@math.auc.dk)

Oslo, Norway  (Arnoldo Frigessi, e-mail Arnoldo.Frigessi@nr.no)

Paris, France (Christian Robert, e-mail robert@ensae.fr)

Gothenburg, Sweden (Holger Rootzen, e-mail rootzen@math.chalmers.se)

Athens, Greece (Petros Dellaportas, e-mail petros@aueb.gr)

Positions are available at any of these nodes or  
associated institutions, including Rome (Italy), Pavia (Italy), and
Warwick (UK).  Information on the scientific content of the project
can be found on the home page 

http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~schlathe/

of the network. General scientific enquiries regarding these positions
should be made to the network co-ordinator, 

Gareth Roberts (Lancaster, UK, e-mail g.o.roberts@lancaster.ac.uk)

and specific information can be obtained from the scientists named
above. 

Research areas of the network include: stochastic geometry and spatial
models, modelling of non-Gaussian spatial and spatio-temporal data,
analysis of latent statistical models,  Markov chain Monte Carlo
algorithms, and models for extremes of spatial data.

Applications, in triplicate, for the positions should be sent to

Cathy Thompson 
Department of Mathematics and Statistics 
Lancaster University 
Lancaster 
LA1 4YF, UK
Fax +44 1524 59 2681

including full curriculum vitae with age and nationality, list of
publications, and a short account of research interests and
achievements; it should also include the names and addresses of two
academic referees. Applicants with preferences for a particular node
or nodes should indicate this on their application, and should send
further individual copies of their application to the scientist in
charge at the institution or institutions where they would like to
hold the appointment. However, indication of a preference is not
essential. Applicants should ask their referees to write directly to
Professor Roberts as soon as possible. 

The primary closing date for applications is  1 April 1999.

though applications and enquiries will be welcome at any time, since
recruitment is being carried out continually throughout the three
years of the network programme. 

Applicants must come from a member state of the European Union or an
Associated State (Iceland, Liechtenstein  Norway or Israel). It is
expected that those appointed will hold a recent PhD in statistics or
a relevant area of mathematics.  Further information and details of
eligibility are provided at the main web-site of the network.







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Guido Consonni
Universita' di Pavia
Dipartimento di Economia Poltica e Metodi Quantitativi
Via S. Felice, 5
27100 Pavia
ITALY

Tel. +39 0382 506 225 
Fax: +39 0382 304226 

email: gconsonni@eco.unipv.it