postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania

[Vijay Balasubramanian]

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Postdoctoral Associate in Theoretical/Computational Neuroscience
			University of Pennsylvania
          		             Philadelphia, USA
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We seek applications for a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship 
in Theoretical/Computational Neuroscience at the University of 
Pennsylvania.   Applicants will have the opportunity to work with 
faculty in the departments of neuroscience, psychology, machine 
learning and physics.

The successful applicant will be involved in an effort to explore the 
role played by natural stimulus statistics, perception and the 
biophysical constraints of energy, space, and time in determining the 
detailed structure and function of retinal circuitry.  This is a highly 
multi-disciplinary project involving experimental and theoretical 
techniques from a variety of areas.   The primary sponsors of this 
project will be Vijay Balasubramanian (Physics, 
http://perception.upenn.edu/faculty/pages/balasubramanian.php), Peter 
Sterling (Neuroscience, 
http://perception.upenn.edu/faculty/pages/sterling.php) and David 
Brainard (Psychology, 
http://perception.upenn.edu/faculty/pages/brainard.php).


The successful applicant will also be encouraged to think more broadly 
about key problems in theoretical and computational neuroscience, 
taking advantage of the thriving inter-disciplinary atmosphere at Penn.

Research centers affiliated to this project include the Perception 
Center (http://perception.upenn.edu/), the Institute of Neurological 
Sciences ( http://www.med.upenn.edu/ins/), the Vision Research Center 
(http://vrc.med.upenn.edu/), and the Institute for Research in 
Cognitive Science (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/)


Applications should include a C.V. and statement of research interests. 
  Please also arrange for letters from three referees.   All materials 
should be sent to Vijay Balasubramanian (vijay at physics.upenn.edu) at 
the address below.  The deadline is January 31, 2005.

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Vijay Balasubramanian
Merriam Term Assistant Professor of Physics
209 South 33rd Street
David Rittenhouse Laboratories
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19103