The "laboratoire d'excellence Bézout" (LabEx Bézout) offers a research position for a promising junior researcher (PhD level, PosDoc experience desirable) starting September 2012.
The LabEx Bézout is focused on the extremely active area at the interface between mathematics and computer science. It includes the members of three laboratories of the University Paris-Est: One in computer science, LIGM (Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge) and two in mathematics, the CERMICS (Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathématiques et Calcul Scientifique) and the LAMA (Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Mathématiques Appliquées). It also includes a few other external researchers. Together, they represent more than 200 active researchers (including PhD students). These laboratories are located in Marne-La-Vallée and Créteil (Near East of Paris). The labex Bézout is a partner of the Réseau Franco-Brésilien en Mathématique.
The LabEx Bézout invites applications for a junior faculty position (Qualifications: PhD, PostDoc experience desirable) from applicants with exceptional track record. This position is also open to full-time assistant professors of French Universities (maîtres deconférence) who wish to benefit from the ongoing research activities ofLabEx Bézout for a certain period ("détachement"). The successful applicant is expected to participate actively in one of the four main scientific areas listed below and develop a strongcollaborative research. A scientific project involving peoplefrom different laboratories of Bézout will be encouraged. The LabEx Bézout also offers the possibility of teaching in the International Masters in mathematics and computer science as well as supervising student projects.
The LabEx Bézout is divided into four main scientific areas at the interface between mathematics and computer science:
- Discrete mathematics and Algorithms: A major technological challenge is to find efficient automatic ways of sorting very large data or data sets of various kind such as textual, linguistic or biological data, or multimedia. Formals models and syntactic methods (automata, graphs, ergodicity, formal grammars, combinatorial structures, etc) are used, as well as analysis tools (multifractals) to structure, classify and index these data. Probabilistic or approximate algorithms are designed and statistical methods are developed (kernel methods, bootstrap).
- High dimensional phenomena: High dimensional phenomena are ubiquitous in modern applications, such as in telecommunications, genomics, and imaging. The mathematical and algorithmic analyses underlying these models involve deep tools from asymptotic geometric analysis, random matrices, and combinatorics. In particular, random matrix theory became a key tool in these questions and plays a central role, since it lies at the heart of mathematical and computational challenges.
- Stochastic and deterministic models: Mathematical finance and computational models in physics and biology lead to important scientific problems which combine stochastic and deterministic modeling, and require the development of suitable analysis concepts and tools. This constitutes an emerging area of research where significant advances in several fields of application are expected. The main tools are stochastic analysis and Markovian dynamics.
- Images and geometry: Computer imagery, such as 3D photography and medical image analysis motivates many examples of open mathematical problems. For example, a fundamental subject is the study of the relationship between the approximate discrete model and geometric invariants computed on smooth shapes (such as conformal parametrizations, mean curvature, Gauss curvature, or umbilical points).
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Position Start Date: 01 Sep 2012.
Address: Champs-sur-Marne, France. Access: 25 min from Paris downtown (RER A, «Noisy/Champs» station) Highway A4 - exit 10 «cité Descartes»
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Address: Créteil, France. Access: 20 min from Paris downtown (Subway 8, «Créteil Université» station) Highway A86 - exit «Créteil»
Job profile:
Status: French government employee or contract employee (3 years position with one possibility of up to 3 years renewal).
Qualification: PhD, with PostDoc experience.
The salary will be function of the candidate's skills.
Language: English expected, French desirable.
Applications:
Applications include a CV, a list of publications and a research statement; they will be made on line on the Bézout web site:
http://www.univ-paris-est.fr/fr/bezout-modeles-et-algorithmes-du-discret-au-continu/
The application will be open on 15th February 2012 and will close 05 April 2012.
A committee will give a short-list on 22 April 2012. Applicants selected on the short-list will be interviewed in May-June 2012.
For more information, please contact:
- Stéphane Jaffard, Head of laboratoire d'excellence Bézout, jaffard@u-pec.fr
- Jean-François Delmas, Head of Cermics, delmas@cermics.enpc.fr
- François Bouchut, Head of LAMA, francois.bouchut@univ-mlv.fr
- Marie-Pierre Béal, Head of LIGM, beal@univ-mlv.fr
