The German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)

offers

                      10 Postgraduate Positions

By these positions, GMD offers young scientists the opportunity to work on
innovative topics in a broad range of subjects. The emphasis is on

- Communication and Cooperation
- Intelligent Multimedia Systems
- Hardware/Software Co-Design
- Parallel and Scientific Computing

which represent the four major research areas of GMD.

Each of the full-time positions will have a duration of up to two years. A
single extension by one additional year is possible. Funding can commence
in April 1995.

Applications must be sent before March 1, 1995.

Applicants must have a Ph. D. (or equivalent) and demonstrate research
experience from projects in research institutions, universities or
industry. Good knowledge of English or German is required.

A statement of research qualification and interest should accompany the
application.

The applications should include a Curriculum Vitae, copies of university
degrees, letters of reference, and publication lists.

Please send applications to

GMD
Gilbert Kalb
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 St. Augustin
Germany

For further information please contact Gilbert Kalb

email: kalb@gmd.de
Fax: +49 2241 14 2288

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One of the topics of interest for postgraduates within the above
announcement is the area of

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN CHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Within GMD, there are research groups directed by Prof. Thomas Lengauer and
Prof. Ulrich Trottenberg that work on a wide variety of problems in these
application areas. Research topics within these groups include

Computer applications in molecular biology:

- alignment of DNA, RNA and protein sequences and structures, especially with
  relation to problems in molecular structure prediction
- construction of phylogenetic trees
- computer-aided prediction of the three-dimensional structure of proteins
- classification of three-dimensional protein structures
- prediction of molecular interactions (docking)

Computer applications in chemistry:

- molecular modeling of solids (crystalline and especially non-crystalline)
- development of efficient (especially parallel) algorithms for molecular
  dynamics computations and Monte-Carlo methods
- parallelization of ab-initio methods

We seek applicants with substantial algorithmic or computational expertise
for such applications, either in discrete or in numerical methods.
Furthermore, the applicants should have sufficient experience with and
knowledge of the application area.

For more information please contact

Prof. Thomas Lengauer
GMD-SCAI
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 St. Augustin
Germany

email: lengauer@gmd.de
Fax: +49 2241 14 2656
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