EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant award
University of Leeds
Department of Statistics
Fully funded studentships for PhD study
The Department of Statistics is offering a postgraduate research studentship leading to a PhD degree. The studentship, funded by the EPSRC, is for 3.5 year study and is open to UK and EU candidates. For home students, the studentship includes full academic fees and a maintenance allowance (tax-free) at an enhanced level: £12,940 per annum plus a discretionary enhancement (£2,000 p.a. for three years) depending on the project chosen and the student's quality and circumstances. For EU students, full academic fees are only payable.
Applicants should have, or expect to obtain, a first or a high upper-second class BSc honours degree (or equivalent) in Mathematics, Statistics or a related subject. MMAth or an additional MSc degree in a relevant area of Mathematics or Statistics would be an advantage.
Applications are invited for a PhD in any area of Probability or Statistics in which there is expertise in the Department, where the main research groups are in (i) Image and Shape Analysis; (ii) Probability and Stochastic Processes; (iii) Bioinformatics.
Possible research topics include (but are not limited to):
Spatial-temporal modelling;
Image and shape analysis;
Bioinformatics;
Data mining;
Inverse problems;
Computer intensive methods;
Wavelets;
Random media;
Branching random walks;
Random partitions;
Probabilistic methods in combinatorics;
Limit theorems;
Stochastic differential equations;
Stochastic financial modeling.
Further details of these and other topics can be found in our postgraduate brochure available at
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/school/postgraduate/statistics.pdf
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/pgstats/
Deadline for applications: 10th October 2008.
Interested candidates should apply using an application form available at http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/school/postgraduate/index.html
Informal inquiries are welcome. Please contact the Postgraduate Research Tutor: Dr Leonid Bogachev, Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT. Tel: 0113 3434972. E-mail: L.V.Bogachev'AT'leeds.ac.uk
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Dr Leonid V. Bogachev
Postgraduate Research Tutor
Department of Statistics Tel. +44 (0)113 3434972
University of Leeds Fax +44 (0)113 3435090
Leeds LS2 9JT L.V.Bogachev'AT'leeds.ac.uk
United Kingdom www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~bogachev
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