<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Dear editor,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><div class="">could you please post the attached job advertisement on the Opt-Net mailing list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sebastian Reich</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The DFG-funded <b class="">Collaborative Research Center SFB 1294 “Data</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Assimilation – The Seamless Integration of Data and Models”</b>, hosted</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">at the University of Potsdam jointly with its partner Institutions</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">HU Berlin, TU Berlin, WIAS Berlin and GFZ Potsdam, invites</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">applications for</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 10px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">14 doctoral and 3 postdoctoral 4-year positions</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 10px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">in the field of data assimilation (including statistical inverse</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">problems, dynamical systems, applied and computational mathematics,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and machine learning) and its application to biophysics, neuro- and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">geosciences.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 10px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Our vision</b>. The assimilation of time-dependent data sets into</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">complex evolution models lead to unique mathematical and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">computational challenges, which provide the central theme of SFB</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">1294. Data assimilation is a newly emerging field which lies at the</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">confluence of several established research areas in mathematics and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">statistics on the one hand and application areas such as</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">geosciences on the other. Our vision is to establish a rigorous</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">mathematical underpinning of data assimilation, to develop</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">principled computational methodologies, and to apply these</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">methodologies to emerging application fields.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 10px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">SFB 1294 provides a fantastic research infrastructure including a</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">large interdisciplinary network of researchers, its own graduate</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">school, and funding opportunities for conference visits, summer</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">schools, hosting international experts etc. SFB 1294 strives to</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">increase the proportion of women in research. The website</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="http://www.sfb1294.de" class="">www.sfb1294.de</a> provides more information on the scientific</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">framework of this call, candidate requirements and online</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">application procedure, and payment scheme for both doctoral and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">postdoctoral positions. Candidate evaluation will begin after the</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">application deadline on July 9th, 2017</b>; with an anticipated start</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">of projects on October 1st, 2017. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 10px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Informal inquiries can be directed to the speaker of SFB 1294, Sebastian Reich, by </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">e-mail: <a href="mailto:crcmath@math.uni-potsdam.de" class="">crcmath@math.uni-potsdam.de</a>.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>