2 Research fellow positions at the University of Edinburgh, UK

[Chris Williams]

The University of Edinburgh seeks to hire two research fellows in the 
area of astronomical databases/datamining. The position within the
Division of Informatics will be based in the Institute for 
Adaptive and Neural Computation, where research in 
machine learning/probabilistic modelling is led by Dr. Chris Williams,
Dr. David Barber (joining Spring 2001) and Prof. Chris Bishop.
See http://www.roe.ac.uk/wfau/vacancy.html for further particulars
on the jobs.

Informal questions and requests for information can be sent to
c.k.i.williams at ed.ac.uk

Apologies if you receive this message multiple times.

Dr Chris Williams                                  c.k.i.williams at ed.ac.uk
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, Scotland, UK      fax: +44 131 650 6899
tel: (direct) +44 131 651 1212  (department switchboard)  +44 131 650 3090
http://anc.ed.ac.uk/

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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 http://www.roe.ac.uk/wfau/vacancy.html. 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 (rgm at roe.ac.uk) in the Institute for
Astronomy or Dr Chris Williams (c.k.i.williams at ed.ac.uk) in the
Division of Informatics.