POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN, NORWAY.

A postdoctoral position with a duration of two years is open at the Department of Mathematics, starting from October 01, 2005 in the project: ”Graphics cards as a high end computational resource” (http://www.sintef.no/gpgpu). The project is a Strategic Research Program funded by the Research Council of Norway, it is coordinated by Department of Applied Mathematics in SINTEF ICT, and the University of Bergen is one of the University partners.

The focus of the project is to develop and analyze mathematical and numerical methods for image processing using partial differential techniques. The work will be done in cooperation with scientists from SINTEF Oslo.

Applicants must have achieved a Norwegian doctorate or an equivalent degree from abroad, or have presented the dissertation for assessment by the closing date for applications. It is a prerequisite that the dissertation has been approved before appointment is granted.

Applicants must have demonstrated abilities in conducting independent research and publishing research results in journals of international level. Successful candidate will work in an international environment.
Thus, ability to communicate and collaborate is important.

Further details about the position can be obtained from professor
Xue-Cheng Tai (http://www.mi.uib.no/~tai), by phone (+47)
55584868 or e-mail: Xue-Cheng.Tai@mi.uib.no.

Applications must be submitted in 3 copies, sorted into 3 identical bundles, each with a complete overview over education and previous practice (CV), certified copies of certificates and diplomas, project plan outline, and scientific publications with a list of these (list of publications), and should be forwarded to the University of Bergen, Department of Mathematics, Johannes Brunsgate 12, N5008 Bergen, Norway.
The deadline for the application has been extended to Nov 15 2005.