Two Postdoctoral Positions in Algorithm Design at Sapienza University of Rome

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Two Postdoctoral Positions in Algorithm Design at Sapienza University of
Rome
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Two postdoctoral positions in the area of algorithm design  are availab
le at
the Department of Computer and System Sciences  at Sapienza University
of
Rome under the guidance of Prof. Stefano Leonardi  and Prof. Piotr Sank
owski.  
All candidates with strong qualifications in  algorithmic research are
encouraged
to apply and will be carefully considered.  Areas of specific interest
are:

- Approximation and Online algorithms 
- Algorithmic Game theory and Mechanism Design
- Web Algorithmics and Data Mining 

Applicants should have a PhD degree or being close to completing it. Know
ledge
of Italian language is not necessary, but good knowledge of English  is
required.
Salary is competitive at the European level. The positions are partly sup
ported by
the PAAl project  (ERC Starting Grant 259515: Practical Approximation
Algorithms).

Successful candidates can start after September  2011 (negotiable). F
unding is  
available for up to 3 years and different durations are possible.  Trav
el support is
available for all research members and no teaching duty is required.

Applications (including curriculum vitae, list of publications, research
plan, names of
references with their e-mail addresses, and intended period of stay) shou
ld be sent,
by email if possible, by July 15, 2011 to:

Stefano Leonardi 
Department of Computer and System Sciences 
Sapienza University of Rome
00185 Roma 
Italy 

Email: leon@dis.uniroma1.it