IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE
(University of London)
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Professorship and Lectureship/Senior Lectureship
in Statistics
Applications are invited for the posts of Professor of Statistics and
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Statistics, with effect from 1 October
1998, 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. Applicants for the Professorship
should have a track record of substantial research achievement. The
Statistics Section was rated 5 in the last Research Assessment
Exercise. Medical and Environmental Sciences expansion at Imperial
College both offer a wealth of opportunities for substantive
statistical involvement.
The Lecturer/Senior Lecturer appointment will either be on the
Lecturer scale 16,045 - 27,985 pounds p.a. or the Senior Lecturer
scale 29,380 - 33,202 pounds p.a. plus London Allowance of 2,134
pounds. The Professor appointment will be on the Professorial scale,
current minimum of 33,882 pounds p.a. plus London Allowance of
2,134 pounds.
For the Lectureship, applications, with a CV, list of publications
and names of at least three referees, and a stamped addressed
envelope for an acknowledgement and further details, should be sent
by 4 May 1998 to: Prof A F M Smith, Mathematics Department, Imperial
College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ; tel 0171-594 8481; fax
0171-594 8517; email:[log in to unmask] . A formal application form
is not issued.
For the Professorship, further details on how to apply can be
obtained from Janet Jones, Projects Officer, Room 508, Sherfield
Building, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, or e-mail:
[log in to unmask] . Closing date: 4 May 1998.
Professorship and Lectureship/Senior Lectureship
in Statistics
Further Particulars
The Department of Mathematics at Imperial College
(http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/) is one of the largest in the UK, with 48
academic staff (including 16 Professors), some 19 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 recent Research Assessment
Exercise, currently has 2 Professors, 3 Visiting Professors, 1
Senior Lecturer and 5 Lecturers. There are 16 postgraduate students
and 4 postdoctoral staff. Research areas include Bayesian theory and
computation, applied probability, time series and spectral analysis,
differential geometry, and design of experiments. Significant
research funding is contributed by industrial sponsors. The
advertised vacancies arise from the departure from 31st August,
1998, of Professor A F M Smith to become Principal of Queen Mary and
Westfield College, and of Dr. B K Mallick to take up a position at
Texas A & M University. Some specific areas of research include the
following:
Bayesian theory and computation: Image analysis, theory and
applications of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, hierarchical
models, decision theory, nonparametric and semiparametric modelling,
statistical genetics, pharmacokinetics.
Time series and spectral analysis: Multitapering of time series,
long-memory processes, geophysical time series analysis, wavelet
methods for time series analysis.
Applied probability: Geometrical probability, quantitative
microscopy, image analysis, stereology.
Statistical modelling: Hierarchical generalized linear models,
pseudo-likelihood, quasi-likelihood, statistical computation.
The Statistics Section is currently recognized as a UK centre of
excellence in the field of Bayesian statistical methods and
computation. International visitors regularly spend time in the
Section. Prof A F M Smith is the past President of the Royal
Statistical Society, and received the Guy Medal in Silver from the
Society. Visiting Professor John Nelder FRS was awarded the Thomas
L Saaty Prize (1990) by the American Journal of Mathematical and
Management Sciences. Prof. Andrew Walden has served as an Associate
Editor for the journal Biometrika and is a co-organiser of the
forthcoming programme "Nonlinear and Nonstationary Signal
Processing" at the Isaac Newton Institute. Many invited lectures at
international conferences have been given by members of the Section.
The Statistics Section will be playing an active role in the
recently established Imperial College Centre for Epidemiology and
Biostatistics. A joint seminar and research programme is being set
up, with Dr. Jon Wakefield, now at the Department of Epidemiology in
the Medical School, providing key linkage between the department and
the Imperial College School of Medicine. Dr. Jon Wakefield is a
former Associate Editor for Applied Statistics and a former member
of the Research Section Committee of the Royal Statistical Society.
The Department has its own library facilities which are excellent by
UK standards. Mathematical Reviews and the Citation Index are both
available in an electronic form. 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 Section has its own cluster of SUN workstations with
extensive software and high quality graphics and black and
white and colour Postscript printers. In total, the Department has
fourteen IBM RS 6000s, 20 SUNs, 8 DEC Alphas and the undergraduate
teaching laboratories have 34 NAGA 486 DOS5 workstations and 24 RM
Pentiums. The Department's Computer Officer provides technical
support for computer users and runs a surgery for those with
computer problems. The College also has a central advisory
service, including a telephone helpline.
The Department is also responsible for a large undergraduate
teaching programme which has two distinct parts. Within the
Department, it is currently responsible for the teaching of a
three-year Mathematics degree to around 300 students, and the
Department 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. The Department is also
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 newly-established Graduate School of the
Environment and the forthcoming establishment of Medical Sciences on
the South Kensington site will further enhance the dynamic and
progressive scientific atmosphere.
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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