Wednesday, March 31, 2010

[DMANET] 2 new faculty posts in CS/Economics

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THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL -- DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
LECTURESHIPS IN ECONOMICS AND COMPUTATION (2 POSTS)
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SALARY IN RANGE GBP 36,715 - GBP 41,323 pa

The Department was ranked in the top 10 UK Computer Science departments
in RAE2008, and building on this success, we seek to significantly
expand current research around existing strengths at the intersection of
economics/game theory and computer science. You will join Professor Paul
Goldberg, Dr Piotr Krysta, Dr Martin Gairing and Dr Rahul Savani in our
research group on Economics and Computation. The group carries out
research in the computational foundations of economics and game theory
and enjoys close collaborative links with other strong research groups
in the Department. You will be expected to contribute to our MSc in
Computation and Game Theory.

You should have a PhD in Computer Science or related discipline and an
excellent track record of research at the intersection of computer
science and economics/e-commerce/game theory.

Relevant topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

** algorithmic game theory;
** e-commerce;
** mechanism design and auction theory;
** complexity and computation of solution concepts;
** optimisation problems in economics;
** computational social choice.

Job Ref: A-570581 ** Closing Date: 30 April 2010 **

Further details are at:
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/department/vacancies/Lectureshipx2EcCo.pdf
online applications/job description:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/academic/A-570581.htm

For informal discussions please contact Prof Paul Goldberg, Head of
Group (mailto:goldberg@liverpool.ac.uk).

For full details, or to request an application pack, visit
http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/
e-mail
jobs@liv.ac.uk
tel +44 151 794 2210 (24 hr answerphone).

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| Paul W. Goldberg | Dept. of Computer Science |
| P.W.Goldberg@liverpool.ac.uk | University of Liverpool |
| http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~pwg/ | Ashton Building, Ashton St. |
| phone: +44 151 7954259 | Liverpool L69 3BX, UK |
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