Open positions: 1-2 PhD grants

Centre of Mathematics for Applications (CMA) was on March 1, 2003, funded as a 'Centre of Excellence' by the Research Council of Norway. CMA is one of three such centres at the University of Oslo. Read more about CMA here.

We hereby invite applications for 1-2 PhD grants

The positions are tied to a specific eVITA-project, granted by the Research Council of Norway, entitled "MATMED - Mathematical and computational methods for co-registering multi-modal medical images". The project aims at making significant contributions to the advancement of the technology supporting the emerging medical field which is usually referred to as Minimally Invasive Therapy (MIT). The project will address some of the underlying mathematical and technological problems that limit the acceptance and usability of advanced image-guided systems in clinical medicine, with particular emphasis on development of numerically stable and efficient algorithms. This project will especially be concerned with developing

• non-rigid registration methods for multi-modal 3D image data
• methods for registration of a video stream with 3D image data

The project is a close collaboration between

• CMA,
• The Image Processing Group, University of Bergen (www.mi.uib.no/BBG), and
• The Minimally Invasive Therapy Visualization and Robotics Lab at the Interventional Centre (Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Centre) www.ivs.no headed by Eigil Samset. The Interventional Centre is a cross-disciplinary research and development department in image-guided and minimally invasive therapy.

These specific positions are tied to a project where Dr. Eigil Samset, Prof. Knut Mørken and Prof. Xue-Cheng Tai are principle investigators. We seek a candidate with scientific background within one or more out of these areas:

• Medical image processing, including rigid and non-rigid registration of volumetric images and medical image segmentation algorithms.
• Fast computation, including parallel processing in clusters and implementation of general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) code
• Computer vision and multi-view geometry to generate shape-from video
• Image-guided-therapy with experience from (at least interest for) connection of mathematical algorithms with clinical applications in working interactive systems
• optimization, geometric modelling and partial differential  equations

Formalities

• The positions are available from October 1, 2006, but the start date may be delayed if necessary.
• Applications with all necessary enclosures must be received by September 15, 2006
• The position will be granted for a period of 3 years.

Applications must include complete information about education at both bachelor and master level, and documented scientific experience. All employees must satisfy the entrance requirements for the doctoral degree programme at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Women are especially encouraged to apply.

For more information on the positions, please contact:

• Professor Eigil Samset, email: eigilsa@ifi.uio.no
• Professor Knut Mørken, telephone +47 22855025, email: knutm@ifi.uio.no
• Professor Xue-Cheng Tai, telephone +47 55584868, email: tai@mi.uib.no

Please use the following address for applications:

Universitetet i Oslo, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
v. personalkonsulent Grete Andresen
Postboks 1032 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, NORWAY
ATT: 06/11187

Applications may also be submitted electronically to grete.andresen@matnat.uio.no