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Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO), DHI and Aarhus Graduate
School of Science (AGSoS) offer a PhD position (full tuition and a very
competitive scholarship) in efficient use of massive sensor data in
hydrological models.

MADALGO is a major computer science research center funded by the Danish
National Research Foundation. The center is located at the Department of
Computer Science, University of Aarhus, but also includes researchers at
CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institute
for Informatics and at Frankfurt University. The center covers all areas
of the design, analysis and implementation of algorithms and data
structures for processing massive data, but initial focus is mainly on
I/O-efficient, cache-oblivious and streaming algorithms. See
www.madalgo.au.dk for more information.

DHI is an independent, international consulting and research
organisation. The objectives of DHI are to advance technological
development and competence within the fields of water, environment and
health. DHI has more than 750 employees based in 20 countries worldwide,
and offers a wide range of consulting services and leading edge
technologies, software tools, chemical/biological laboratories and
physical model test facilities as well as field surveys and monitoring
programmes. DHI is a leader in hydrological modeling software. See
www.dhigroup.com for more information.

The overall goal of the project is to develop algorithms and software
that are capable of processing the massive datasets being produced by
modern sensor technologies such as LIDAR and SONAR. More concretely, the
goal is to develop new efficient algorithms for processing massive
terrain datasets and to use these algorithms, as well as the the tools
and techniques developed at MADALGO (e.g. in the TerraSTREAM project -
see www.madalgo.au.dk/Trac-TerraSTREAM/) to improve the efficiency of a
number of specific tasks in DHI's hydrological models.

Applications are welcomed from students with at least three years of
full-time study by summer of 2008. Students with a strong background in
the design and analysis of algorithms or in hydrological modeling will
be preferred. Please refer to www.nat.au.dk/en/phd for further
information about PhD studies at AGSoS. Enquiries can also be sent to
MADALGO Center Leader, Professor Lars Arge (large@madalgo.au.dk) or
Jesper Grooss (jgr@dhigroup.com) at DHI Software Products.

Applications must be submitted electronically through the AGSoS web-site
at https://mit.au.dk/endex.cfm . The application deadline is 15 May
2008, 12.00. Please see the Applicant's Guide on how to apply and
general information about AGSoS and the PhD programme at
http://www.science.au.dk/en/phd. Please choose the reference no.
2008-218/5-22, and choose the field "Computer Science" and "Department
of Computer Science" when applying for this particular position.