Visiting and Employment Opportunities for 2005-06

Visiting and employment opportunities at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute during 2005-2006 include the following.

• Long-term research visitors, associated with the individual SAMSI programs, for periods of up to one-year. SAMSI support for such visitors is typically in the form of expense reimbursement. To explore possibilities as a long-term visitor, use the contact addresses for the individual programs, or contact Jim Berger ([email protected]).

• Postdoctoral fellowships are available (up to 5), associated with individual SAMSI programs, with appointments beginning in July or September 2005; or January 2006. Appointments will typically be for two years and be made jointly between SAMSI and an associated organization. Extremely competitive salaries will be offered. See the Postdoc Appointments Page for information in applying.

• SAMSI University Fellow appointments (up to 3) are senior level positions that are joint with Partner universities. See the Fellows Page for more information.

• SAMSI New Researcher fellowships (up to 3) provide support of up to $20,000 in salary for semester to year-long visiting outstanding researchers who have received their Ph.D. within the previous 8 years. See the Fellows Page for more information.

• Visiting graduate student positions are available, although it is expected that the student�s advisor will be in residence for much of the time that the student is visiting. Applications should consist of a letter indicating the SAMSI programs of interest, a vita, and a letter from the student�s advisor.

Members of under-represented groups are particularly encouraged to apply for these positions.

SAMSI programs planned for the year 2005-06 are:

• Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics, with emphasis on modeling, data analysis and computation, in application to derivatives, options and securities (Fall 2005).

• National Defense and Homeland Security, with emphasis on biointelligence, real time inference, anomaly detection, data integration, and dynamics of massive databases (Fall 2005 � Spring 2006).

• Astrostatistics, with emphasis on collaborations involving astronomers, mathematicians and statisticians on novel problems facing upcoming astronomy missions (Spring 2006).

 

SAMSI (www.samsi.info) is a partnership between the National Science Foundation and the consortium of Duke University, North Carolina State University (NCSU), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). SAMSI is forging a new synthesis of the statistical sciences and the applied mathematical sciences with disciplinary science to confront the very hardest and most important data- and model-driven scientific challenges. With a directorate consisting of James Berger (Duke), H.T. Banks (NCSU), Young Truong (UNC), and Alan F. Karr (NISS), SAMSI is located at the NISS building in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.

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