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Associate Senior Lecturer in High Energy Physics

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at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Application no later than 2013-05-15. UFV-PA 2013/349

Duties: The position includes teaching, research and administration. Teaching duties include course responsibility, course administration and supervision of post graduate students.The holder shall also keep abreast of developments within the subject area and the developments in wider community that are significant for the work at the university. A position as associate senior lecturer aims to qualify for a teaching position with higher assessment criteria.

The research relates to participation in the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with data analysis to search for new physics beyond the standard model, including charged Higgs bosons. The work also includes the operation of the ATLAS experiment  and development of e-Science for simulation and analysis. Continue reading →

PhD students in Cloud Computing, Umeå University

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PhD students in Cloud Computing

Umeå University, Sweden is seeking outstanding candidates for PhD student positions in Computing Science with focus on management systems for cloud computing. The positions are aimed for research in a new multidisciplinary research project utilizing control theoretic methods for advanced management systems in cloud computing datacenters.

The research is to be performed in one of Europe’s leading research groups in cloud computing at Umeå University and in collaboration with researchers at Lund University. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR).

For information about the research group, see www.cloudresearch.org

For full announcement and instructions how to apply, see:
http://www8.umu.se/umu/aktuellt/arkiv/lediga_tjanster/313-203-13.html#eng

Deadline: April 8, 2013

NeGI: call for Nordic Centres of Excellence in eScience in Health and Social Preconditions for Health

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The Nordic eScience Globalisation Initiative (NeGI) has allocated approximately NOK 40 million to the establishment of 1-2 Nordic Centres of Excellence (NCoEs) for eScience research on the use of genetic/molecular data and clinical/population registries for research in health and social preconditions for health. This involves development of methods and tools for advanced data integration, data analysis, modelling and simulation for research related to health and social preconditions for health, with a special focus on exploiting national registry, biobank and genetic data in the Nordic countries.

Deadline for application: 17 April 2013.

The URL for the call: http://www.nordforsk.org/en/funding/the-nordic-escience-globalisation-initiative-negi-escience-in-health-and-social-preconditions-for-health

The URL for NeGI: http://www.nordforsk.org/en/programs/programmer/escience?set_language=en

PhD positions in Parallel and High-Performance Computing, Umeå University, Sweden

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PhD positions in Parallel and High-Performance Computing,
Umeå University, Sweden
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We are seeking outstanding candidates for PhD student positions within the field of Parallel and High-Performance Computing.

The research group is focused on the design, analysis, and implementation of efficient and robust algorithms, and library software for parallel dense and structured matrix computations. The research is performed in an international and creative environment. Locally, the research group is collaborating with the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) and the UMIT Research Lab.

For further information of the positions, please contact Professor Bo Kagstrom (bokg@cs.umu.se) or Ass. Professor Lars Karlsson (larsk@cs.umu.se) at the Department of Computing Science and HPC2N.
Dead-line for applications is March 4, 2013.
For the complete announcement, visit
http://www8.umu.se/umu/aktuellt/arkiv/lediga_tjanster/313-114-13.html#eng

Postdoc position in computer science or bioinformatics with focus on Hadoop for large scale sequence analysis

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at the Department of Information Technology
Application no later than 2012-10-15. UFV-PA 2012/2414

Background: The emerge of high-throughput technologies such as next-generation sequencing has turned life science into a data-intensive domain, which places high demands on an e-infrastructure in order to be analysed. UPPMAX (www.uppmax.uu.se) is UppsalaUniversity’s center for high performance storage and computations that via the project UPPNEX (www.uppnex.uu.se) offers resources for storage, computations, software and user support in bioinformatics and primarily sequence analysis. We are now seeking a Postdoc to evaluate how technologies like cloud computing and Hadoop can complement the current infrastructure and offer improved services in storage and analysis of bioscience data. Continue reading →

eSSENCE invites Letters-of-Interest in the area of e-Science research

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In this call, we are aiming at research areas involving e-Science collaborations between the universities and between scientific disciplines.

The plan is to support up to three 2-year post-doctoral fellows, one at each of Lund University, Umeå University and Uppsala University, with 600 kSEK/year during 2013–2014.

More information in the .pdf file: eSSENCE-LoI-LU-Umu-UU_2012.pdf

Deadline: Friday August 31, 2012

Contact: eSSENCE coordinator Ingela Nyström coordinator@essenceofescience.se

I take this opportunity to wish you all a nice Summer!

Best regards,

Ingela Nyström

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Ingela Nyström, Professor Ingela.Nystrom@it.uu.se
Dept. of Information Technology http://www.cb.uu.se/~ingela
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET Phone: +46 70 1679045
Box 337 Visit: Lägerhyddsvägen 2
SE-751 05 Uppsala SWEDEN ITC building 2, floor 1
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Uppsala: HADOOP AND NGS DATA PROCESSING HACKATHON

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The bioinformatics community is adopting novel cloud computing technologies to cope with the challenges set forth by complex data integration tasks and NGS data masses. The hackathon will focus on next challenges that cloud adoption poses: massively distributed data processing frameworks such as Hadoop, distributed cloud databases and distributed bioinformatics applications.

The event will continue from topics raised during the previous hackathon in March in Finland where we familiarised ourselves with the relevant questions of Hadoop based data processing and proceeded to benchmark different deployment scenarios, some bioinformatics tools and generic cloud computing tools.

The next steps are: proceeding into bioinformatics specific computational challenges (mapping, variant calling, etc.) and discussing the mechanisms that allow easy deployment of new tools into a cloud platform (CloudBioLinux, VM images, Chef, etc.).

The event is aimed at bioinformaticians and software developers who are using or planning to use Hadoop or similar cloud computing frameworks. It will be organised around practical problem solving and group work.
The event is organized by the EU COST Action SeqAhead (www.seqahead.eu), and kindly sponsored by UPPMAX (www.uppmax.uu.se) and eSSENCE (www.essenceofescience.se).
Organisers: Ola Spjuth, Aleksi Kallio, Eija Korpelainen.

Umeå: HPC2N Symposium — Inauguration of Abisko, May 31, 2012

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Umeå University, May 31, 2012

High Performance Computing Center North cordially invites you to participate in the inauguration of Abisko, the new HPC2N supercomputer system. The morning program offers a tutorial and the afternoon program includes presentations by scientists using Abisko, state-of-the-art technical and R&D overviews and the formal inauguration of Abisko.

The procurement of Abisko was made possible through a grant from the Swedish National Metacenter VR/SNIC and the support of Umeå University.

Dead-line for registration: May 21 at 12.00.
There is no conference fee but remember that the number of seats for all events are limited, so register as soon as possible.

Most welcome!
Bo Kågström, HPC2N Director
Marianne Sommarin, Chairperson of the HPC2N Board

Links to program and registration form:
https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/abisko/inauguration
https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/abisko/inauguration/form

Invitation for Letters of Interest in the area of e-Science research at UU

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Call: 2-year PostDoc positions cofunded with 500 kSEK per year.

Deadline: April 30, 2012
Contact: eSSENCE coordinator Ingela Nyström <ingela.nystrom@it.uu.se>
Attachment: eSSENCE-LoI-2012.pdf

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 Ingela Nyström, Professor                 Ingela.Nystrom@it.uu.se
 Dept. of Information Technology           http://www.cb.uu.se/~ingela
 UPPSALA UNIVERSITET                       Phone: +46 70 1679045
 Box 337                                   Visit: Lägerhyddsvägen 2
 SE-751 05 Uppsala     SWEDEN              ITC building 2, floor 1
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Uppsala: Registration to CSC2012 – This summer in Uppsala

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The 35th CERN School of Computing will be held at the Uppsala University, Sweden
from Monday 13th of August to Friday 24th August 2012

Programme highlights
The CERN School of Computing 2011 is organised around 3 thematic themes, each theme comprising lectures and exercises.

  • Do you know how to bridge Grids and Clouds using virtualization technology?
  • Is it possible to simplify LHC physics analysis using virtual machine?
  • How can reliable storage services be built from unreliable hardware?
  • Why are tapes still used in high energy physics data storage?
  • How can I write code for tomorrow’s hardware, today?
  • Do you want to see your software with attacker’s eyes?
  • Can you hack your own code?
  • Do you know what do ‘code injection’ and ‘integer overflow’ have in common?
  • What’s so special about High Energy Physic’s data format?
  • What are the key statistical methods used in physics data analysis?

All the answers at CSC2012 Continue reading →