IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE
Department of Mathematics
Lectureship in Statistics
#18,731 - #30,967 p.a. plus London Allowance of #2,134.
Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Statistics, with
effect from 1 March 2001, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants
should have research strength in some branch of Statistics or Applied
Probability and be able to teach students in the Mathematics Department
and to provide statistical ancillary teaching to other Departments within
the College. The Statistics Section was rated 5 in the last Research
Assessment Exercise. Medical and Environmental Science expansion at
Imperial College both offer a wealth of opportunities for substantive
statistical involvement.
Applications, in the form of a CV, and including a list of publications
and the names of three referees should be sent to Ms E Rowley, Mathematics
Department, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ (email
[log in to unmask]). A formal application form is not issued. For an
informal discussion about the position, contact Professor D J Hand on
[log in to unmask] For further information visit http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk
and http://stats.ma.ic.ac.uk.
Closing date: 24 November 2000
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Lectureship in Statistics
(October 2000)
Further Particulars
The Department of Mathematics at Imperial College is one of the largest in
the UK, with 50 academic staff (including 19 Professors), some 17 Research
Associates/Fellows, and a steady flow of international visitors. In
addition, the Department is fortunate in having a number of eminent
Emeritus Professors and Senior Research Fellows who play a continuing role
in the research life of the Department.
The Department acts as a unified whole in most respects, but for
organisational convenience is broken into sections with distinctive
research directions: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis,
Mathematical Physics, and Pure Mathematics.
The Statistics Section, rated 5 in the last Research Assessment Exercise,
currently has 2 Professors (David Hand, Andrew Walden), 2 Visiting
Professors (Adrian Smith, John Nelder), 1 Senior Lecturer (Rodney
Coleman), 5 Lecturers (Dave Stephens, Dave Denison, Emma McCoy, Chris
Holmes, Lynda White), with a new Reader (Martin Crowder) joining us in
January. There are currently 16 postgraduate students and 4 postdoctoral
staff. Research areas include Bayesian theory and computation, genetics,
time series and spectral analysis, wavelets, hierarchical models,
classification methods, and areas at the interface between statistics and
computing. Application areas of particular interest include medicine,
bioinformatics, finance, and data mining. Significant research funding is
contributed by industrial sponsors, as well as by the research councils.
We have recently launched a new initiative to extend those aspects of our
teaching related to actuarial work.
The Mathematics Department has its own excellent library facilities.
Substantial computing power is available to faculty and postgraduates and
all members of the Faculty can expect an ethernet-connected machine in
their office. The Statistics Section has its own cluster of SUN
workstations with extensive software. The Department's Computer Officer
provides technical support for computer users and runs a surgery for those
with computer problems, but the Statistics Section also has its own
computer support staff. The College also has a central advisory service,
including a telephone helpline.
The Department is also responsible for a large undergraduate teaching
programme that has two distinct parts. Within the Department, it teaches a
three-year Mathematics degree to around 300 students. It has been one of
the first to implement a four-year undergraduate degree, in addition to a
new undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Optimization and Statistics.
Externally, the Department is responsible for the ancillary teaching of
Mathematics and Statistics to the other departments of the College. This
responsibility is an important one, and although a member of the
Statistics Section might expect a good proportion of his or her teaching
to be to mathematics undergraduates, he or she would be expected to
undertake ancillary teaching as requested.
Imperial College is one of the premier scientific Higher Education
Institutions in the UK. The recent establishment of Medical Sciences on
the South Kensington site will further enhance the dynamic and progressive
scientific atmosphere. The Statistics Section of the Mathematics
Department is establishing strong links with the medical statisticians
(Sylvia Richardson has recently been appointed to the Chair of
Biostatistics), with shared teaching and joint research projects in
progress.
The College recruits high quality students to virtually all of its courses
and correspondingly seeks to appoint staff of the highest calibre. It is
currently College policy that able staff can be entered into the
University promotion procedure on merit, rather than be constrained by
financial quotas.
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