Sweden: Postdoctoral position in Topological Complex Systems

Deadline: July 30th 2012
Nationality: Any
 KTH School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) announces a postdoctoral position in Topological Complex Systems

Assignment

This postdoctoral position will be associated with a new three year project financed by the European Commission. The project proposes to use computational topology, which takes notions from algebraic topology and adapts and extends them into more algorithmic forms, to enrich the study of the dynamics of multi-scale complex systems. With the algorithmic approach, the project will consider various problems, such as reconstructing dynamical behaviors from discrete point samples. In particular, the project extends the technique of persistence to include ideas from dynamical systems, as well as incorporating category theory and statistics. Persistence is inherently multi-scale, and provides a framework that will support the analysis of multi-scale systems, category theory provides a platform for a unified theory and joint abstraction layers, and statistics allows us to provide quality measures, inferences, and provide confidence intervals and variance measures for our analyses.
The length of the positions is 2 years with possible extension up to 3 years. The applicant is expected to perform full time research and 100% will be devoted to the associated project.

Employment

Form of employment: Two year temporary position.
Work time: Full time.
Start date: According to agreement
Number of positions: 2.
The position is a full research position.

Qualifications

Applicants should have a PhD in mathematics. Excellent programming skills and experience with large sets of data is also a requirement.

Application

Application deadline: July 30, 2012
Employer's reference number: D-2012-0277
Applications via email are to be sent to: Kerstin Lagerstedt, e-mail: jobs@csc.kth.se
Write reference number in the email subject. CV, etc should be sent as an attachment, as pdf-files.

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