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         Research Assistanship in AI and Discrete Optimization
           Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

  Two Research Assistanships are available at the Industrial 
Engineering Department at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Each assistanship offers $8,000 for 9 months and a potential for a 
tuition waiver. The assistanships are for 3 years and will start in 
the Fall of 1995.
  We are looking for highly qualified Ph.D. students with areas  of
expertise in Operations Research and AI. These students will be doing  
research in the areas of inductive inference, machine learning and 
discrete optimization. They will be working for a project recently 
funded by the U.S. Navy.
  The students will become members of a larger research group,
comprised by 4 more Ph.D. students and 3 faculty of the Industrial 
Engineering Department. Louisiana State University offers many state of
the art computational facilities, including an IBM 3090 mainframe and 
many Unix machines.
  Interested candidates must first send their CVs/Transcripts to the
following address:
   Professor Evangelos Triantaphyllou
   Department of Industrial Engineering
   3128 CEBA Building
   Louisiana State University
   Baton Rouge, LA 70803-6409
   U.S.A.
   Phone: (504) 388-5372
   FAX:   (504) 388-5990
   E-mail: IETRIAN@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU