Postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna (Austria)
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                Development of modular global optimization 
         techniques and software in a branch and bound framework



The Institute for Mathematics of the University of Vienna invites 
applications for a post-doctoral research position in optimization.
The contract is for at most three years, probably beginning November
or December 2000 (dependent on the starting date of a European project 
to be funded by the European Union).
 
Vienna, the capital of Austria, is one of the great scientific, 
politic, and cultural centers of the world.

The Computational Mathematics group (URL: http://solon.cma.univie.ac.at)
is currently primarily involved in the development of high quality 
software for global optimization and in interdisciplinary applications 
of optimization (e.g., to protein folding and to parameter estimation 
in stochastic models). The successful applicant will participate in the 
development of modular techniques and software for global optimization 
in a branch and bound framework, with emphasis on the combination of 
techniques from
  - large-scale local optimization
  - combinatorial optimization
  - constrained (logic) programming
  - interval analysis

Candidates must have a Ph. D. in Mathematics, Operations Research, 
or Computer Science. Especially welcome are applicants who have
  - excellent practical knowledge of numerical methods for optimization 
    and linear algebra,
  - excellent programming skills in C and C++, and
  - previous experience with branch and bound methods.

Interested researchers should contact 
Prof. Arnold Neumaier (neum@cma.univie.ac.at),
preferably before September 15, 2000.