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Two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in
Astronomical Databases and Datamining
The University of Edinburgh seeks two postdoctoral researchers
to join an interdisciplinary team working on astronomical databases
and datamining. This new initiative brings together wide field
astronomers from the Institute for Astronomy, computer scientists/applied
mathematicians from the Division of Informatics and high performance computing
specialists from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, to address
issues ranging from the design and implementation of large astronomical
databases to the use of machine learning and computational geometry
techniques to characterise their contents.
Candidates with a background in either astronomy or informatics are encouraged
to apply. The posts are tenable for 2 years from 1 March 2001 (or soon
thereafter), although this research is likely to be supported in the longer
term through the Astro-Grid project expected to be funded by the UK
Government's e-science initiative. The salary for each post will be on the
AR1A (16,775-25,213 pounds pa) or AR2 (23,256 - 30,967 pounds pa) salary scale
depending on age, qualifications and experience.
Further particulars, including details of the application procedure,
should be obtained from the Personnel Department, 9-16 Chambers
Street, Edinburgh EH8 9TB or Tel: 0131 650 2511 (24 hour answering
service) or www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm (advert will be posted
in week beginning 8 January). The further particulars are also
available at . Closing date for
receipt of applications is 31 January 2001. We cannot guarantee to
consider late applications. Please quote ref 307014 (Institute for
Astrnomy) or ref 307016 (Division of Informatics). Informal enquiries
can be made to Dr Bob Mann ([email protected]) in the Institute for
Astronomy or Dr Chris Williams (a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]) in the
Division of Informatics.
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