Subject: NA Digest, V. 18, # 23 NA Digest Sunday, June 10, 2018 Volume 18 : Issue 23 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: 2018 Cardiac Segmentation Challenge Postdoc Position, DAE Systems Analysis, INRIA Grenoble, France Postdoc Position, Scientific Computing, INRIA-Paris Postdoc Postions, Chalmers Univ of Technology PhD/Postdoc Positions, Applied Mathematics, Discovering Structure in Complex Data PhD Position, FEM for complex fluids, RWTH Aachen Univ Subscribe, unsubscribe, change address, or for na-digest archives: http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/faq.html Submissions for NA Digest: http://icl.utk.edu/na-digest/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jichao Zhao [log in to unmask] Date: June 09, 2018 Subject: 2018 Cardiac Segmentation Challenge We want to bring your attention to our ongoing atrial segmentation challenge (http://atriaseg2018.cardiacatlas.org/), sponsored by NVIDIA, Arterys, and MedTech Centre of Research Excellence (New Zealand). Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained heart rhythm disturbance. The poor performance of current clinical treatment for AF is due to a lack of basic understanding of the underlying atrial anatomical structure. Nowadays, gadolinium contrast agency is used in a third of all MRI scans to improve the clarity of the images of a patient's internal structures including the heart, by improving the visibility of often disease associated structures, such as fibrosis. Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (GE-MRI) is widely used to study the extent and distribution of cardiac fibrosis in clinical studies. Direct segmentation of the atrial chambers from GE-MRIs is very challenging due to the fact that the contrast between normal myocytes of atrial tissue and background is attenuated. Most of the existing structural analysis studies, especially those that utilize clinical GE-MRIs, have been based on labour intensive, error/bias prone approaches. Hence, there is a need for an intelligent algorithm that can perform fully automatic atrial segmentation, particularly in left atrium, for accurate reconstruction and visualisation of the atrial geometry for clinical usage. This atrial segmentation challenge will provide the largest dataset of such kind: A total of 154 3D GE-MRIs for training and testing from patients with AF from multiple institutes. This atrial segmentation challenge, in conjunction with 2018 STACOM workshop and MICCAI conference (16 September 2018 in Granada, Spain), has provided an open competition for wider communities to test and validate their methods on image segmentation. The exciting development is a very important step towards patient specific diagnostics and treatment of AF. The atrial segmentation challenge requires participants to submit their paper to STACOM workshop (paper submission deadline: 27 June 2018), though the challenge itself will finish on 14 September. For detailed information including image data and prizes, please check the link: http://atriaseg2018.cardiacatlas.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Vincent Acary [log in to unmask] Date: June 08, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Position, DAE Systems Analysis, INRIA Grenoble, France A two-year post-doc position is open at INRIA Rhone-Alpes on structural analysis of nonsmooth DAE systems. A complete description and how to apply is available here: https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-00651 ------------------------------------------------------- From: benamou [log in to unmask] Date: June 07, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Position, Scientific Computing, INRIA-Paris 3D Monge Kantorovich numerical models in Cosmology: Optimal Transport, Algorithmic on Massively Parallel Computers and Numerical Cosmology. Full details : https://team.inria.fr/mokaplan/files/2011/07/POST-DOC-MOKOSMO-English.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- From: Stig Larsson [log in to unmask] Date: June 07, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Postions, Chalmers Univ of Technology The department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology invites applications for two postdoc positions: Ref 20180331 Postdoctoral position in Modeling of multiphase flows in porous materials http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at- Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=6363 Ref 20180332 Postdoctoral position in Virtual design of porous materials structures http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at- Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=6364 Deadline: June 28, 2018. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Gerlind Plonka-Hoch [log in to unmask] Date: June 10, 2018 Subject: PhD/Postdoc Positions, Applied Mathematics, Discovering Structure in Complex Data The Research Training Group RTG 2088 "Discovering Structure in Complex Data: Statistics meets Optimization and Inverse Problems" (Speaker: Prof. Gerlind Plonka-Hoch) at the Georg-August-University Gottingen offers positions for 7 Ph.D. candidates beginning on October 1st, 2018. The salary is in accordance with the German public service salary scale (E13 TV-L) with 75% of the regular working hours (currently 29.85 hours per week) for up to three years. The research projects in this RTG focus on new mathematical concepts for the efficient reconstruction and classification of relevant structural information in data sets, without reconstructing the entire information inherent in the data. One of the guiding principles of this RTG consists of discovering and rigorously exploiting structural a priori information in order to obtain the desired information. Methodologically, specific emphasis will be laid upon the interplay between approaches in statistics, optimization and inverse problems. Most of the proposed PhD projects arise from signal or image processing applications in biology, medicine or engineering. Requirements: - A very good M.Sc.degree (or equivalent) in mathematics or a similar field; - A strong background in one of the mathematical disciplines covered by the RTG (inverse problems, optimization, mathematical statistics, data analysis, probability theory, computational topology, mathematical signal and image processing); - Proficiency in written and spoken English; - Good programming skills are beneficial. Detailed information on the application process, the research projects and the PhD study program are available at http://www.uni- goettingen.de/de/514290.html. Candidates are required to indicate up to three preferred projects. You find the online application platform here: https://lotus2.gwdg.de/uni/uzdv/perso/knr_100349.nsf Only applications submitted via the application platform will be considered in the selection process. Closing date is June 30th, 2018. For further information please contact [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Marek Behr [log in to unmask] Date: June 07, 2018 Subject: PhD Position, FEM for complex fluids, RWTH Aachen Univ The Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems (CATS) [1] at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) has an immediate opening for a fully funded Ph.D. position at the intersection of engineering, applied mathematics, and computer science, to work on novel stabilized finite- element methods for microstructured and complex fluids. This position is part of a collaboration between RWTH Aachen University and The University of Texas at Austin, and will be co-supervised by Prof. Marek Behr (RWTH) and Prof. Leszek Demkowicz (UT Austin). Research stays at UT Austin are expected. The appointment at the payscale TV-L 13 (about 3600 euro per month gross at the entry level [2]) will be initially for one year, and will be extended for two extra years upon positive evaluation. Applications from excellent candidates are invited. To apply, email the following documents to Prof. Marek Behr ([log in to unmask]): - statement of purpose - detailed CV - transcripts from your Bachelor and MS degrees - contact info of at least two references - pointers to your previous publications and projects (if any) The review of applications is ongoing and will continue until the position is filled. [1]: http://www/cats/rwth-aachen.de [2]: http://www.cats.rwth-aachen.de/cms/CATS/Der- Lehrstuhl/Stellenangebote/~qspt/Stelleninfos/lidx/1/ Requirement for this position is a master's degree in CES, engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, physics, or a similar subject, with a superior academic record. Practical programming experience in C or Fortran as well as with parallelization are of advantage. Familiarity with UNIX operating system would be ideal. Excellent written and spoken English language skills are required. ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************