Dear allstat,
I should be grateful if you would bring the following advert to the
attention of any likely graduates...
Please direct any enquiries to our postgraduate tutor, Leonid Bogachev,
whose details are at the end of this email.
Thanks,
Robert.
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Dr Robert G. Aykroyd,
Department of Statistics,
University of Leeds,
LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK.
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
Postgraduate Research leading to PhD
The Department of Statistics is offering a 3 year studentship to study
for a PhD. The studentship is open to UK home candidates (fees and
living allowance at an enhanced stipend relative to the standard EPSRC
allowance) and EU candidates (fees only). Applicants should have, or
expect to obtain, at least an upper second class honours degree (or
equivalent) in mathematics, statistics or a related subject.
Applications are invited from any candidates interested in an area of
probability or statistics in which there is expertise in the
department. The main research groups are: image and shape analysis, and
probability and statistical theory.
There are many possible research topics including:
Spatial-temporal modelling Approximations and limit theorems
Image and shape analysis Branching random walks
Data mining Stochastic differential equations
Bioinformatics Stochastic financial modelling
Inverse problems Computer intensive methods
Random media Probability methods in combinatorics
Wavelets
Further details of these, and other, topics can be found in our
postgraduate brochure which is available on our website at:
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/school/postgraduate/BrocPDF4web.pdf
and on the Statistics Departmental web pages:
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics
The Department of Statistics is part of a large School of Mathematics
which has excellent dedicated computing resources and is adjacent to
the main Science and Engineering library. There are internal and formal
Departmental seminar programmes as well as many local RSS meetings.
Research students are encouraged to attend national and overseas
conferences as well as the Department's own annual international
research workshop.
Interested candidates should contact, as soon as possible,
Dr Leonid Bogachev,
Department of Statistics,
University of Leeds,
Leeds, LS2 9JT
Tel: 0113 343 4972, email: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics
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