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Apologies for cross posting. Please use contact info given below - do not reply to me. London School of Economics and Political Science 1. READER IN STATISTICS DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Salary range: £26,725 to £36,598 inclusive per annum. As part of a wider programme to build a Centre for Time Series Analysis, applications are invited for the position of Reader in Statistics in the Department of Statistics from September 1999. Time Series Analysis has an illustrious history at the School, and continues to be a mainstream activity here. Ragnar Norberg and Howell Tong have recently accepted appointments as Professors of Statistics. The person appointed to the Readership in Time Series will have an excellent record of international standing in Time Series Analysis. If you would like to discuss the post, please contact Professor Anthony Atkinson (tel: 0171 955 7622). Further particulars and details of how to apply may be obtained from the Personnel Services Office, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE (tel: 0171 955 7079; fax: 0171 955 6843; e-mail: [log in to unmask]). The closing date for the receipt of applications is Friday 9 April 1999. LSE is closed Thursday 1 April to Wednesday 7 April 1999 inclusive. The LSE is an educational charity committed to equal opportunities and excellence in teaching and research. 2. FURTHER PARTICULARS 2.1. The LSE The London School of Economics and Political Science is an independent and autonomous institution with the status of a School within the federal University of London. The School was founded in 1895 and since 1901 has been incorporated under the Companies Act as a company limited by guarantee. It occupies a compact site in the heart of London close to Westminster, Whitehall, the City, the Law Courts and the media. As well as the main complex of School buildings in, and adjacent to, Houghton Street, the School has eight halls of residence and a sports ground located in New Malden, Surrey. At present there are eighteen academic departments, five interdisciplinary institutes, and several research centres. The subjects taught and researched are all in the sphere of the social sciences, broadly conceived. The School also houses the British Library of Political and Economic Science, one of the finest collections in the world of social science materials. The School has approximately 7,000 students, and is one of the largest colleges in the University of London. About half of the School's full-time students are post-graduate, and over 40% of the student cohort are from overseas. The School employs about 1,000 staff. In the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise the School was ranked second or third (depending on the measures taken) in the UK with 83% of its staff in 5 or 5* units of assessment. 2.2. The Department of Statistics The Department of Statistics has 16 academic staff, several research staff and 3 administrative support staff. Research interests of staff are listed separately. The Department runs an MSc in Statistics. At the undergraduate level, the Department offers BSc degrees in Actuarial Science and in Business Mathematics and Statistics. The Department has 11 students who are working towards PhDs in areas of research including multivariate time series models, robustness, regression diagnostics, optimum experimental design, response errors in surveys, census undercount, and volatility in financial markets. The Department has a network of Sun SPARCstations 20. In addition there is an extensive School network of IBM and Pentium machines, both in staff offices and in teaching rooms. The broad range of interests in the Department makes for a stimulating environment and provides ample opportunity for interaction at all levels of teaching and research. Generous funding is available from the Staff Research Fund to aid research. In addition, the Department plays an important role in the intellectual life of the School and has contacts with many other Departments. The Statistics Department has particularly close links with the Departments of Economics, Mathematics and Operational Research, and, through the Methodology Institute, with the Departments of Sociology and Social Psychology. The Department runs its own Departmental Seminars and is an active member of the University of London's Statistics Seminar series and the School's Econometric and Statistics Seminar series. Recent visitors to the Department have included Alan Agresti and Karl Joreskog. Any candidate who wishes to discuss relevant issues informally is invited to contact Professor Anthony Atkinson on 0171 955 7622 in the Department of Statistics. 3. STATISTICS STAFF & RESEARCH INTERESTS Professor Anthony Atkinson, Professor of Statistics: Regression Diagnostics, Design of Experiments, Generalised Linear Models. Mr David Balmer, Lecturer in Statistics: Simulation and Stochastic Modelling. Dr Gianni Betti, Lecturer in Statistics: Survey Design, Sample and Estimation Methods. Dr Barry Blight, Lecturer in Statistics: Decision Theory, Time Series Analysis, Model Fitting. Dr Angelos Dassios, Lecturer in Actuarial Science: Deterministic Markov Processes, Risk Theory, Financial Mathematics. Mrs Jane Galbraith, Lecturer in Statistics (part-time): Survey Sampling, Factor Analysis Mr Michael Gilbert, Lecturer in Actuarial Science (part-time): Actuarial Science. Dr John Howard, Senior Lecturer in Operational Research and Statistics: Game Theory, Social Choice, Decision Theory, Fundamentals of Statistical Inference. Dr Ji-Wook Jang, Lecturer in Statistics: Risk Theory, Financial Mathematics. Dr Martin Knott, Senior Lecturer in Statistics: Latent Variable Models, Robustness, Optimisation Problems, Computing for Statistics. Dr Irini Moustaki, Lecturer in Statistics: Latent Variable Models, Survey Methodology, Categorical Data. Professor Ragnar Norberg, Professor of Statistics (full time in 2000): Stochastic Processes, Actuarial Statistics. Dr Jeremy Penzer, Lecturer in Statistics: Time Series, State Space Form, Kalman Filter Smoother, Omitted Structure in Time Series. Dr Celia Phillips, Lecturer in Statistics: Survey Methods, Market Research Methods, Statistical Sources. Mr Rajeev Shah, Lecturer in Actuarial Science: Financial Mathematics. Dr Fiona Steele, Lecturer in Statistics and Statistical Methodology: Multi-level Modelling, Event History Analysis, Demography, Categorical Data Analysis. Professor Howell Tong, Professor of Statistics, will join the Department in October 1999. Visiting lecturers: Professor David Bartholomew, Emeritus Professor of Statistics: Factor Analysis, Manpower Planning. Professor Andrew Harvey, Professor of Econometrics: Econometrics and Time Series Analysis. 4 March 1999 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%