Job no: 0051226

Work type: Fixed Term

Location: Parkville

Division/Faculty: Faculty of Science

Department/School: School of Mathematics and Statistics

Role & Superannuation rate: Academic – Full time – 9.5% super

Salary: Level A: $73,669 – $99,964 p.a (PhD entry level $93,120) or Level B: $105,232 – $124,958 p.. Level of appointment is subject to applicants’ qualifications and experience. 

The School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne has four two-year research positions available for exceptional early career researchers in the mathematical sciences, whose research has the potential to have a significant impact, either in fundamental research or toward practical applications. The School maintains activity in all areas of the mathematical sciences, and the positions can be related to any area.

For more details please refer to

http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/903384/postdoctoral-research-fellow-4-positions

ARC PhD Scholarship ($31,885pa): Switching Dynamics Approach for Distributed Global Optimisation

https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/information-for/research-candidates/enriching-your-candidature/grants-and-scholarships/postgraduate-by-research/switching-dynamics-approach-distributed-global-optimisation

Fast growing big-data in industrial systems makes finding optimal solutions for timely decision making more difficult. This project aims to create a breakthrough switching dynamics approach and new technology to speed up finding optimal solutions. It will develop a distributed switching dynamics based optimisation scheme for global optimisation problems in big-data environments, hence resulting in a practical technology for industry applications (e.g. smart grids).

The specific objectives of this Project are:

1. Establish a switching dynamics approach for global optimisation, forming the foundation to accelerate convergence to search for optimal solutions.

2. Create an intelligent distributed global optimisation scheme with switching dynamics based multi-agent system concepts, which is scalable to big-data optimisation tasks.

This is a project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant for three years (2021-2023), which aims to develop a breakthrough switching dynamics approach and new technology for global optimisation tasks in big-data applications.

The successful applicant will work on this project for the PhD in the School of Science at RMIT University supervised by Prof. Andrew Eberhard and carried out in collaboration with Prof. Xinghuo Yu (Electrical Engineering) at RMIT.

Qualifications

You are required to have a Bachelor degree in a relevant discipline such as Mathematical Sciences or Electrical Engineering with at least 2nd class upper honours or equivalent.  Experience in one or more areas in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Discontinuous Control Systems, Optimisation theory and\or Optimisation Algorithms is desirable. The applicant must have a strong background in mathematics.

Application

A CV detailing your qualifications, research experience and achievements, a statement of your suitability to this project, and contact details of two referees are to be emailed to Professor Andrew Eberhard at andy.eberhard@rmit.edu.au.  For further information, please contact Prof. Andrew Eberhard directly.

Call for Postdocs 2020

The Euler International Mathematical Institute in St. Petersburg is seeking postdocs in all areas of Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics.

Applicants should send their applications to euler.postdoc@gmail.com

The applications should include:

• CV,
• List of publications (including preprints, if necessary),
• Description of research interests, ideally mentioning possible host or other research contacts in St.Petersburg,
• Names, affiliations and contacts of 2-3 people willing to send recommendation letters if asked by the committee,
• Any special requirements wrt the dates, etc.

Basic conditions:

• Competitive salary of 126,314 RUB per month (taxed at 13% for residents and foreigners), this is double the average salary in St. Petersburg,
• Housing allowance enough to cover all or most of the rent (in addition to the salary),
• The institute partially covers travelling expenses to St. Petersburg of up to 300 Euro for the postdocs from Europe and up to 600 Euro for the postdocs outside Europe,
• The institute has some funds for covering participation in conferences that cannot be covered from other sources,
• 1 or 2 years extendable for another year,
• Small teaching load,
• Flexibility with respect to the starting date, length, specific calendar requirements (such as a leave in the middle),

St. Petersburg is the most beautiful city in the world and has multiple mathematical locations including Steklov Institute of Mathematics http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/pdmi/en/laboratories and the newly created Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in St. Petersburg State University http://math-cs.spbu.ru/en/people/ (the links are provided also as a “menu” of possible hosts).

The preference is given to applications completed before November 30, 2020. Preferable starting date is September 1, 2021.

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to ask them by email.