<div dir="ltr">Dear Connectionists list, please find the following job ad with deadline soon.<div><br><div><div><div><div style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/academic-jobs/research-fellow-in-statistics-and-astrophysics/706686" target="_blank">RESEARCH FELLOW</a>: in Statistics and Machine Learning for Astrophysics, Monash University, Australia, deadline 31 July.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px"><br><div><a href="http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/academic-jobs/research-fellow-in-statistics-and-astrophysics/706686" target="_blank">http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/academic-jobs/research-fellow-in-statistics-and-astrophysics/706686</a>  (deadline 31/July/2016)</div><div><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times">Postdoc available</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"> (Postdoctoral Fellowship job available, </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times">deadline: 31 July 2016</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">) : </span><a href="http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/academic-jobs/research-fellow-in-statistics-and-astrophysics/706686" target="_blank" style="font-family:Times">Research Fellow in Statistics, Machine Learning, Mixture Modelling, Latent Factor Analysis and Astrophysics</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">(deadline 31/July/2016) </span></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">We seek to fill a 2.5 year post-doctoral fellowship dedicated to extensions </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">and applications of the Minimum Message Length (MML) technique to the analysis </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">of spectroscopic data from recent large astronomical surveys, such as GALAH (GALactic Archaeology with HERMES). The position </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">is based jointly within the Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA, in the School </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">of Physics and Astronomy) and the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT).</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The successful applicant will develop and extend the MML method as needed, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">applying it to spectroscopic data from the GALAH project, with an aim to </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">understanding nucleosynthesis in stars as well as the formation and evolution </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">of our Galaxy ("galactic archaeology").</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">A popular paper relating MML to Solomonoff-Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic information theory (AIT) is Wallace and Dowe (1999a), ``<a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html/#WallaceDowe1999a" target="_blank">Minimum Message Length </a></span><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html/#WallaceDowe1999a" target="_blank">and</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html/#WallaceDowe1999a" target="_blank"> Kolmogorov Complexity</a>'', Computer J, <a href="http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/4.toc" target="_blank">special issue on Kolmogorov complexity</a>.  </span><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Further reading on MML in the 2011 Elsevier Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (Vol. 7, Philosophy of Statistics) [including, e.g., dealing with a Neyman-Scott-like problem for panel data] is in </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Edld/David.Dowe.publications.html/#Dowe2011a" target="_blank">Dowe (2011a)</a></span></span><span style="font-size:13px">, a nice accessible introduction is </span><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html/#DoweGardnerOppy2007" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">here</a><span style="font-size:13px">,</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> and further reading on MML </span><span style="font-size:13px">(hybrid)</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">mixture modelling is in </span><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Edld/David.Dowe.publications.html/#WallaceDowe2000" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Wallace and Dowe (2000)</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> or sec. 6.8 of </span><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Edld/CSWallacePublications/#Wallace2005" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Wallace (2005)</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">(with a spatial correlation model </span><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html/#VisserDowe2007" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">here</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">).</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div>The position is based at the Clayton campus (in suburban Melbourne, Australia) of Monash University, which hosts approximately 56,000 equivalent full-time students spread across its Australian and off-shore campuses, and approximately 3500 academic staff. Monash is committed to growing its already established excellence in astrophysics as well as machine learning and statistical inference.  MML research at Monash University dates back to the original seminal Wallace and Boulton (1968), ``An information measure for classification'', Computer J.  The successful applicant will work with world experts in both the Bayesian information-theoretic MML method as well as nuclear astrophysics. The immediate supervisors will be Professor John Lattanzio (MoCA), Associate Professor David Dowe (FIT) and Dr Aldeida Aleti (FIT).</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:13px">Monash University is based in Melbourne, named the world's most </span><span style="font-size:13px">livable</span><span style="font-size:13px"> city in each of the last 5 years.  Melbourne is a highly multi-cultural cosmopolitan city providing extensive cultural and lifestyle opportunities, is situated on the coast with excellent beaches readily accessible, many fine restaurants, etc.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">Salary will be in the range AUD86,209 to AUD92,541, which includes a 9.5% contribution to superannuation from the University.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">Further information at </span><a href="http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/benefits" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/benefits</a><span style="font-size:13px"> .</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Applications due by 31 July 2016</b></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Further Information:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Position Description:  </span><a href="http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/academic-jobs/research-fellow-in-statistics-and-astrophysics/706686" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/academic-jobs/research-fellow-in-statistics-and-astrophysics/706686</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Monash University:     </span><a href="http://www.monash.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.monash.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Monash Centre for Astrophysics   </span><a href="http://moca.monash.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://moca.monash.edu/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> School of Physics and Astronomy: </span><a href="http://www.monash.edu/science/schools/physics" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.monash.edu/science/schools/physics</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Faculty of Information Technology: </span><a href="http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Minimum Message Length: </span><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/CSWallacePublications/#Wallace2005" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/CSWallacePublications/#Wallace2005</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> City of Melbourne: </span><a href="http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Pages/Home.aspx</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">  </span><a href="http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au</a></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers and best,</div><div><br></div><div>David Dowe.</div></div></div><div><br></div></div>