Subject: Postdoc position From: "Berrick A J" Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:30:58 +0800 ___________________________ Postdoc position There will be a postdoctoral fellowship available at National University of Singapore (NUS) for the academic year 2005-06, with possible extension for a second year. Funding comes from research grants of Jie Wu and Jon Berrick, so the fellow is expected to have overlapping research interests with at least one of them. Areas of common interest include links between homotopy theory and braid groups (and/or related groups such as automorphism groups of free groups, mapping class groups). Via the plus-construction, there are also links to K-theory. For further details of the research of Jie and Jon, see http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~matwujie/ http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~matberic/ It is likely that other topologists/K-theorists will be visiting NUS during the year; in addition, an international meeting on braids has been proposed. For those who are impressed by such things, NUS appeared in the top twenty in this month's Times Higher Educational Supplement ranking of universities worldwide, reflecting a positive research environment. Please indicate your interest by emailing Jon at berrick@math.nus.edu.sg The position will be filled as soon as possible after 15 December, 2004.