Dear Colleagues,

Please forward this announcement to interested master students and potential candidates.

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PhD POSITIONS are available at the

Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications, UMR 7348 University of Poitiers and CNRS (France)

http://www.univ-poitiers.fr/home-750171.kjsp?RH=1328179805685&RF=1328179...

http://rech-math.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr/en/index.shtml

Applications for PhD candidates in

applied probability and statistics

are welcome.

There is a possibility to work under the supervision of Pierre-Yves LOUIS http://pylouis.perso.math.cnrs.fr/ around the topic:

Stochastic dynamics for large networks

Stochastic models are nowadays of main interest in several applicative fields: ecology, population biology, wildfire, social networks. More individual specificities of constituting entities (sites) can be considered. A global macroscopic state emerges from the sites’ interaction. These individually-based models are following the micro/macro description workflow defining the statistical mechanics scientific field. A large, possibly infinite, number of sites is considered. These interacting dynamical systems motivate theoretical, numerical and applied challenges. These systems of stochastic processes may be used also to sample from random fields on complicated structures as the one considered in biology. Monte-Carlo methods are used to solve related statistical questions. The PhD thesis will consider one of the following topics which are strongly related to complex systems in computer science, statistical physics and computational biology.

The PhD candidate has the opportunity to choose between the following challenging projects:

- Interacting Stochastic Dynamics on trees - Stochastic algorithms, Gibbs sampling - Application of stochastic methods to data classification

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Application deadline: 31 March 2015 through

http://s2i.ed.univ-poitiers.fr/dv_demarrer_une_these/recrutement-demarrer-un...

AND please contact Pierre-Yves Louis as soon as possible

Please send one pdf with your resume, and possibly a list of taken courses with grades, a copy of your master thesis and at least two names as references to pierre-yves.louis@math.cnrs.fr

======================== For more details please see the pdf-file

http://pylouis.perso.math.cnrs.fr/proposition_sujet_these_2015_LOUIS_fr.pdf

and for the application procedure to

http://s2i.ed.univ-poitiers.fr/dv_demarrer_une_these/recrutement-demarrer-un...

======================== Requirements

You have an MSc in mathematics, with a proven interest in probability theory and statistics. Candidates with background in computational physics, computer science, mathematical biology, computational biology may be considered. ======================== Conditions of employment You will be appointed for a period of 3 years through a PhD scholarship starting 1. September 2015 minimal income : 1684,93 EUR gross/month ======================== For more information and applications please contact pierre-yves.louis@math.cnrs.fr

Best regards, Pierre-Yves LOUIS. pierre-yves.louis@math.cnrs.fr http://pylouis.perso.math.cnrs.fr/