PhD and postdoctoral vacancies (fwd)

["Clarice G.B. Demetrio" <clarice@carpa.ciagri.usp.br>]

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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:29:28 +0200
From: Monique Tanga <Tanga@stat.ucl.ac.be>
To: clarice@carpa.ciagri.usp.br
Subject: PhD and  postdoctoral vacancies

Dear Clarice G.B. Demetrio,


We are contacting you on behalf of Ingrid Van Keilegom .
Please find below the announcement of several
doctoral and postdoctoral positions at our
Institute of Statistics. As you certainly know we
have a good tradition of successful PhD students
and postdocs contributing to a stimulating and
international working environment over the past
15 years, and we depend very much on attracting a
good part of our researchers in particular also
from abroad. Should you know interested
candidates, we would be very grateful if you
could bring this call to their attention,
together with some relevant information about our lively Institute.

Thank you very much in advance.  Please apologize for cross-posting.

Sincerely yours,
The search committee of the Institute of Statistics
Université catholique de Louvain

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FULL TIME PHD AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITIONS
INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS
UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN

Starting from September 2008, the Institute of
Statistics (IS) of the Université catholique de
Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, is offering
the following full time teaching and research
assistant positions and postdoctoral positions :
    * 4 teaching assistant positions for
preparing a PhD in statistics (up to 6 years'
contract, with  monthly salary of about 2600
Euros, including social security) : Besides
working on his/her thesis, the doctoral student
is teaching tutorials in a variety of service and master courses of the IS.
    * 4 research assistant positions for
preparing a PhD in statistics (up to 4 years'
tax-free monthly grant of about 1500 Euros) : The
doctoral student's main activity is working on
his thesis, but he/she can be involved on a small
scale into some teaching activities of the
IS.  One of the research positions is on
asymptotic theory for semiparametric statistics,
one on time series econometrics, and two on general topics in statistics.
    * 3 postdoctoral positions (1 year grants,
roughly 2000 Euros per month tax-free) : One
position is on asymptotic theory for
semiparametric statistics, and two on general topics in statistics.
The Institute of Statistics of the Université
catholique de Louvain is a renowned research
centre of high international reputation which
offers a very stimulating working environment,
equipped with modern computing facilities, a
statistics library, a vivid visitors? programme
and ample funding for scientific travel.  It is
placed in the heart of a modern, vivid and
international university campus (
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-acces.html), in close
proximity of Brussels and its international
airport, and in short travel distance to other European capitals.

More information (description of the working
environment, description of the positions,
required qualifications, modes of application,
contact persons, ...) can be obtained from
http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/stat/documents/AssistantPost08.pdf
for the PhD positions
and
http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/stat/documents/Postdoc08.pdf
for the postdoc positions.



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Prof. Ingrid Van Keilegom
Institute of Statistics
Université catholique de Louvain
Voie du Roman Pays 20
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

E-mail : ingrid.vankeilegom@uclouvain.be
Tel : +32 10 47 43 30
Fax : +32 10 47 30 32
URL : http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/vankeile/vankeile.html
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