12 PhD positions within the Research Training Group "Spatio/Temporal Probabilistic Graphical Models and Applications in Image Analysis", Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University is advertising 12 PhD positions within the
Research Training Group "Spatio/Temporal Probabilistic Graphical
Models and Applications in Image Analysis".

For details, please see the advertisement below, or visit

http://graphmod.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/media/OPEN-POSITIONS-RTG-2013.pdf

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Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) 1653 "Spatio/Temporal
Probabilistic Graphical Models and Applications in Image Analysis"

Probabilistic Graphical Models are a thriving research area at the
interface of probability theory and graph theory. Thanks to their
modularity and expressive power, they are becoming a unifying language
for the formulation of complex models. One the one hand, such models
raise deep questions in statistics and optimization. On the other
hand, they allow us to address challenging applications of image
analysis in computer vision, the life sciences, earth sciences and
industry.

The Research Training Group (RTG 1653) funded by the German Science
Foundation (DFG) and associated with the Interdisciplinary Center for
Scientific Computing (IWR) of the University of Heidelberg, Germany is
now inviting applications for its second generation of PhD students
(2013-2016).

We offer

12 Doctoral Positions (TV-L 13)

for fascinating research projects on theoretical aspects and demanding
and relevant applied projects.

The twelve students are expected to form a diverse and yet coherent
team. All of you starting at about the same time will mean that you
have a chance to learn and grow together. In addition, you may profit
from some overlap with the first generation of successful RTG students
and benefit from their experience and insight. The principal
investigators will organize a structured teaching program that builds
on your individual strengths and helps to close remaining gaps to
allow you to reach the forefront of research in the shortest time
possible and then make your own contribution. All students will be
supported both scientifically and logistically by the Heidelberg
Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences. You will
be jointly advised by two principal investigators from the Institutes
of Applied Mathematics (Bock, Dahlhaus, Gneiting), Theoretical Physics
(Heermann), Computer Science (Ommer, Reinelt), and the Heidelberg
Collaboratory for Image Processing (Hamprecht, Jaehne, Schnoerr). For
more information, please visit

http://graphmod.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/

Positions in the salary class TV-L 13 are awarded for 3 years.
Extensions are possible in the case of parental leave, and partial
funding for childcare is available.

Please send a cover letter, copies of certificates of academic
qualifications held and a curriculum vitae in a single pdf file to the
coordinator, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schnoerr, Email:
graphmod@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de.