EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant award
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Department of Statistics
Fully funded DTA studentships for PhD study
The Department of Statistics is offering a postgraduate research studentship leading to a PhD degree. The successful candidate will be expected to start their study as soon as possible but not later than in May 2009.
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 grant at an enhanced level: £13,300 per annum plus a discretionary enhancement of £2,000 per annum (for 3 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 a first or an upper-second class BSc honours degree (or equivalent) in Mathematics, Statistics or a related subject. MMath or MSc in a relevant area of Mathematics or Statistics would be an advantage.
Applications are invited for a PhD in any area of Statistics or Probability in which there is expertise in the Department, where the main research groups are in (1) image and shape analysis; (2) probability and stochastic processes; (3) statistical bioinformatics.
Possible research topics include (but are not limited to):
Spatial-temporal modelling;
Image and shape analysis;
Statistical 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: 3rd April 2009.
Interested candidates should apply using an application form available at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/students/apply_research.htm
For informal inquiries please contact: Dr Leonid Bogachev, Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. Tel: 0113 3434972. E-mail: L.V.Bogachev'AT'leeds.ac.uk
Leonid Bogachev
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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
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