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Appointment of a Lecturer in Statistics and Quantitative Methods in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research 2000 We are seeking to appoint a new lecturer to start work on 1st January 2001. The position will have a starting salary on the scale £14,904 to £30,636 depending on age and experience. The closing date for applications is 2 October 2000. Further details about the post are given below. 1. The Department The Department is one of four in the Faculty of Science and Mathematics. It comprises 29 full time academic staff, 7 support staff and 8 research assistants. Most of the staff are housed on the main campus within the city of Nottingham, while the remainder have offices at our green site campus at Clifton, approximately 4 miles south west of the city. The Department runs three undergraduate degrees: BSc (Hons) Mathematics and BSc (Hons) Mathematical Engineering which are based at the City site and BSc (Hons) in Combined Studies in Science which is taught at Clifton. The BSc Mathematics programme offers final year students a choice whereby they can specialise in mathematics or statistics. The University's Foundation Degree in Applied Science is also based within the Department. New joint honours programmes in Mathematics and Computing and Mathematics with Electrical Engineering are currently under development. In addition, the Department supports courses in other faculties and departments of the University, and has a strong commitment to the teaching of Quantitative Methods in the Business School, in particular. In this latter capacity the Department is developing a highly quantitative Business Analysis pathway on the BA (Hons) Business Studies programme which will commence in the 2001-02 academic year. The new appointee will be expected to play a major role in the development, administration and delivery of this pathway. The Department accesses the University's central computing facilities for teaching and research. These facilities are supplemented by the Department's dedicated specialist computing facilities based around 9 Sun computers and 8 X-terminals. All staff have workstations or X-terminals on their desks and some final year undergraduate teaching is carried out using the Sun network. 2. The New Post The new position provides an excellent opportunity to develop a broad teaching portfolio in Quantitative Methods while pursuing research and/or consultancy activities. The post will be based at the City site and will involve the teaching of Quantitative Methods on both the Department's honours programme and on courses at all levels in the Business School. We encourage applications from candidates with suitable teaching interests who can contribute new research areas to the Department and who will assist in strengthening research links with the Business School. Candidates might have an academic background in mathematics/statistics with a track record of application to business, or in business studies with a strong quantitative approach and content. 3. Research in The Department Research in the Department is carried out within three broad groups: Probability, Statistics and Applied Mathematics. The main personnel involved with their areas of activity are as follows: Statistics Dr J Marriott - Bayesian statistics, time series and prediction. Professor N Davies - time series, computer aided learning, statistical modelling. Professor V Barnett - environmental statistics, environmental standards. Dr M Baxter (Reader) - statistical archaeology, multivariate methods, applied statistics. Dr H Nikolov - operational research, biostatistics. Dr C McCollin - reliability theory. Dr D Crabb - medical statistics, vision science Dr Baxter participates in a European research group which received a major EC research grant in 1998 for "Statistical modelling of archaeological ceramic provenance" which is currently funding a postdoctoral fellow, Dr I Papageorgiou. Professor Davies is the director of the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education which is housed in the Department, and a codirector of the LTSN for Mathematics, Statistics and OR. Professor Davies is also director of the Nottingham Industrial and Applied Business Statistics Unit (NIABS) which is based within the Department. The unit employs a full time research associate at the Data Base (Nottingham) Ltd and a full time consultant contracted to the Medical Defence Union. We anticipate that these centres will create many exciting opportunities for new collaborative projects. Probability Professor D Applebaum - stochastic analysis, Lévy processes, stochastic differential geometry, quantum stochastic calculus. Dr V Kolokoltsov (Reader) - stochastic analysis, quantum mechanics, idempotent analysis, optimisation, games, financial mathematics. Professor R L Hudson - quantum stochastic calculus, quantum probability, quantum logics, functional analysis. Dr R Schilling - Markov processes, Lévy processes, pseudo-differential operators. Dr Z Coelho - Ergodic theory, random dynamical systems. The Probability group organised a major international conference "Probability - theory and applications" which was held at NTU in April 1998 and was funded by both EPSRC and the LMS. Members of the group were involved in organising a satellite conference on "Noncommutative Geometry and Probability" which was held at The Nottingham Trent University in Summer 2000 as part of the IAMP Congress and a workshop on "Lévy Processes" to take place in Spring 2001. Applied Mathematics Dr A Sackfield (Reader) - elasticity, rheology, tribology, industrial mathematics, bearing design. Dr J Bland - discrete optimisation, numerical methods. Dr C Beardah - numerical analysis, differential algebraic equations, kernel density methods. Dr J Baylis - coding theory, discrete optimisation. Dr B Jumarhon - numerical analysis, numerical solution of PDEs, mathematical modelling. Dr J Webb - game theory, ecological modelling, quantum fields. Dr A Mandache - algebraic coding theory Dr J Gough - quantum noise, quantum dynamical systems. Further information about research can be found on the Department's web page at http://science.ntu.ac.uk/msor/ In the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), two groups were submitted, Statistics which improved from a grade 3 to a 3b and Applied Mathematics which obtained a 2 in 1992, also obtained a 3b. No other "new" University obtained two 3b's in mathematical areas. The department is committed to the pursuit of excellence in research as well as teaching and both groups are expecting to improve their gradings in subsequent RAE's. The Department's teaching was inspected by the Quality Assurance Agency at the end of May 1999 within the context of the national External Subject Review (ESR). The Department was awarded 21/24, comparing well with similar institutions. In a recent national league table published by the Guardian, the Department was ranked equal third on its degree level provision in Mathematics. Although we are not necessarily seeking applicants with extensive teaching experience, we expect that the successful candidate will have strong potential to be an excellent teacher and will be enthusiastic about teaching at all levels within the University, especially on business-related courses. For application forms contact: Personnel Services: - 24 hours phone 0115 848 6522 - Fax 0115 848 6551 - e-mail [log in to unmask] Please note that the University will not accept CV's in lieu of the official application form, however these may be submitted as supporting evidence together with the form. Professor D Applebaum Acting Head of Department %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%