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The Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway,
has a vacancy for a professor in optimization.<br>
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For details on how to apply, please visit <a
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The Department of
Informatics was established in 1984 and is located in
the High Technology Centre in Bergen, Norway. The goal
of the Department is to provide education and conduct
research in informatics on a high international level.
The Department has 22 permanent faculty members, 4
adjunct professors, and an administrative staff of 7.
It also has 10 post-docs, 6 researchers and 40
PhD-students, the majority financed by external
sources. The Department offers education at the
Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate level. The Department
has 6 research groups: algorithms, bioinformatics,
optimization, programming theory, secure communication
and visualization.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The research and
teaching in the optimization group covers linear,
discrete and continuous optimization. The aim of the
group is to be a major international contributor of
theory and methodology in these disciplines, and to
educate new experts in the field through our master
and PhD programs. Many of the research activities in
the group are motivated by industrial applications,
and external collaboration is an important component
of the work. Including the vacant position, the
optimization group consists of two professors, one
associate professor, one postdoc, and two PhD
students.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The successful candidate
has a documented experience in industrial applications
of optimization and a broad knowledge of optimization
methods in general. He/she is an international expert
either in linear, combinatorial or continuous
optimization, and has a strong publication and
citation record in international journals.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The successful candidate
can also document success in attracting research
funding from science foundations and industrial
collaborators, and is experienced in research project
work involving supervision of PhD students and project
management.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The department is also
recruiting new faculty within the fields of
bioinformatics and visualization. The best qualified
applicant will be evaluated relative to the best
candidates from the other two subject areas. The
department will then extend an offer to the overall
best applicant. In the case of exceptionally good
candidates, more than one offer may be considered.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The teaching language
will normally be Norwegian. The successful applicant
must be able to teach in Norwegian or one of the other
Scandinavian languages within two years of his/her
appointment.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Basic teaching training
is also a requirement, but the successful applicant
who does not have such competence at the time of
his/her appointment will be offered training and will
be required to produce evidence of such training
within one year of the date of appointment. This
deadline is extended to two years for the successful
applicant who does not master a Scandinavian language
at the time of appointment.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Reference is made to the
University's General Regulations which state that as
port of the normal duties of the position, the
successful applicant may also be required to undertake
teaching, supervision and work in connection with
examinations in his or her particular field outside
the organisational unit to which the appointment
belongs.</p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The former Senate
emphasised that teaching qualifications are to be
given real weight in appointments to middle and top
academic positions. Applicants must produce evidence
of their own teaching qualifications. This can be done
by submitting, for instance:</p>
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<li>evidence of completed teaching training </li>
<li>evaluation reports of the applicant's teaching </li>
<li>overview over scope and level of teaching </li>
<li>overview over supervision of post-graduate and
doctoral candidates, and results obtained </li>
<li>student awards received </li>
<li>own teaching publications </li>
<li>own teaching compendia and material </li>
<li>reports showing participation in projects related
to the development of teaching, such as alternative
forms of teaching, supervision or teaching
environments.</li>
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If there are applicants of both sexes with
approximately equivalent qualifications, the female
applicant shall be ranked before the male pursuant to
the rules on equal opportunities.</p>
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