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Birzhan Ayanbayev joins the UQ Group
It is a pleasure to announce that Birzhan Ayanbayev will join the UQ research group as a postdoctoral researcher with effect from 28 February 2020. He will be working on the DFG-funded project “Analysis of maximum a posteriori estimators: Common convergence theories for Bayesian and variational inverse problems”.
Published on Friday 28 February 2020 at 12:00 UTC #group #job #dfg #map-estimators #ayanbayev
Postdoc position: Analysis of MAP estimators
There is still an opening for a full-time two-year postdoctoral research position in the UQ group at the Freie Universität Berlin. This position will be associated to the project “Analysis of maximum a posteriori estimators: Common convergence theories for Bayesian and variational inverse problems” funded by the DFG.
This project aims to advance the state of the art in rigorous mathematical understanding of MAP estimators in infinite-dimensional statistical inverse problems. In particular, the research in this project will connect the “small balls” approach of Dashti et al. (2013) to the calculus of variations and hence properly link the variational and fully Bayesian points of view on inverse problems. This is an exciting opportunity for someone well-versed in the calculus of variations and tools such as Γ-convergence to make an impact on fundamental questions of non-parametric statistics and inverse problems or, vice versa, for someone with a statistical inverse problems background to advance the rigorous state of the art for such methods.
Prospective candidates are encouraged to contact me with informal enquiries. Formal applications are to be sent by post or email, by 23 December 2019, under the heading MAP-Analysis, and should include a cover letter, a scientific CV including list of publications and research statement, and the contact details of two professional references.
Published on Monday 25 November 2019 at 08:00 UTC #group #job #fu-berlin #inverse-problems #dfg #map-estimators