PDRA in Single Molecule Statistical Signal Processing
Mark Girolami
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research assistant to work under the supervision of Professor Hagan Bayley (Oxford Chemistry) and Dr Nick Jones (Oxford Physics) on a research project for an initial period of one year. The project involves the development of advanced statistical signal processing techniques to facilitate low-cost, rapid nanopore-based DNA sequencing, with the eventual aim of making reliable base calls from long DNA strands driven through the nanopore. The group is located in the Chemistry Research Laboratory at Oxford www.chem.ox.ac.uk/ Find out more about the Bayley research group at www.chem.ox.ac.uk/researchguide/hbayley.html and the Jones group at www.physics.ox.ac.uk/cm/cmt/jones/
Applicants should either already have a PhD in a relevant subject area, or have submitted their thesis prior to taking up the post. The applicant should have a working knowledge of modern statistical signal processing methods; Effective Matlab (or equivalent), programming skills, a good background understanding of relevant physical applied mathematics and statistics.
The post will be based in the Chemical Biology Group of the Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA. The researcher will also have a desk in the Physics department. For further particulars of the post, including how to apply, visit our website http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/jobs.asp . These should be obtained before an application is made. Informal enquiries should be addressed to max.l...@physics.ox.ac.uk or hagan....@chem.ox.ac.uk Please quote reference DQ10001/HB in all correspondence.
Further Details are available for download here: http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/jobs/DQ10001-HB-FPs.pdf or by e-mail to recru...@chem.ox.ac.uk quoting reference DQ10001/HB.
Application deadline for this post is 16 April 2010
The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
Nick Jones
Senior Post Doctoral Research Assistant in Network Inference (we also have a separate PDRA appointment in Applied Combinatorial Optimization - scroll down) Applications are invited for a Senior Postdoctoral Research Assistant to investigate methods for inferring networks from multivariate time series. We have the specific goal of inferring networks that evolve in time. It is intended that the PDRA will investigate some of the existing canon of static and dynamic inference approaches and attempt to develop new ones. As well as having real valued measurements of the system at each time point, scientific observation often gives us extra categorical observations: meta-data which associates meaningful (symbolic) tags to the state of the system at that time. We will be investigating ways of combining this metadata with the inferred networks, with a view to detecting anomalous system behaviour and improving forecasting. As part of the EPSRC grant Global View the candidate will consider applications of network inference to heterogeneous types of time series, will be involved in data collection relating to the state of the UK, and will be involved in meetings with the Treasury and Department of Transport. Applicants should possess a PhD or equivalent (or be about to receive one) and must have familiarity with methods to infer networks from sets of time series or related methods in multivariate time series analysis. It will be desirable for candidates, depending on background, to have some subset of the following skills. Familiarity with methods from: network analysis and complex systems; statistical physics and stochastic processes; signal processing/ time series analysis; statistical machine learning especially familiarity with graphical models and Gaussian processes. Since this appointment is interdisciplinary we will consider candidates from across the disciplines: statistics, systems biology, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, engineering and econometrics. The post is available initially for a fixed-term duration of 1 year. The appointment will be at the start of Grade 8 (£36,715). If no suitable applicant is forthcoming an appointment on the Grade 7 scale 28,983 - 35,646 (with an appropriate adjustment of duties) may be considered. Please direct informal inquiries about this post to Nick Jones (nick....@physics.ox.ac.uk) Please also look at the Further Particulars. http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jobs/upload//dk10-006%20pdra%20jones2_further_particulars_final.doc Application Deadline: 23 July 2010
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Post Doctoral Research Assistant in Spreading Processes on Networks and Applied Combinatorial Optimization
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Spreading Processes on Networks and Applied Combinatorial Optimization. The post is available initially for a fixed-term duration of 2 years. We will consider candidates either from Applied Combinatorial Optimization or from Network Science. Candidates with a background in combinatorial optimization will investigate a spectrum of computational methods from applied combinatorial optimization as applied to a set of canonical problems constrained by real data. The aim will be to reach across methods from the many ways in which combinatorial optimization is performed in practice, making sure that we consider a good representation of typical metaheuristics. One of our objectives will be to use these methods as a way of investigating the nature of the data as well as the nature of the algorithms. Our benchmarked methods will be turned to improved approaches to detecting clusters in graphs and methods for controlling rumour propagation on social networks. This is part of the EPSRC grant `Game theory and adaptive networks for smart evacuations. Part of this is to probe the way in which information about a threat propagates around social networks and to ask how this might be perturbed optimally. The candidate will meet with social scientists to establish how to parameterize and motivate the appropriate simple models. The candidate will likely work with another PDRA with practical experience in Evolutionary Computation applied to topics in Evolution. We will consider candidates from across the disciplines. Please direct informal inquiries about this post to Nick....@physics.ox.ac.uk. For further particulars of the post, and how to apply please visit http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jobs/ Application Deadline: 09 July 2010 http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jobs/upload//dk10-005%20pdra%20jones1_further_particulars.doc