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Subject: [cormas-announcement] PhD Scholarship: Multi-agent spatial modeling of foot-and-mouth disease]
From: Francois Bousquet (bousquet_fra@yahoo.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 20:55:48 CET
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> Objet: Fwd: PhD Scholarship: Multi-agent spatial modeling of
> foot-and-mouth disease
> De: "Daniel Chan" <cosnet@anu.edu.au>
> Date: Mar 12 décembre 2006 04:01
> À: cosnet@anu.edu.au
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> >UNSW and CSIRO Collaboration
> >
> >A Competitive PhD Scholarship:
> >$26K tax free per annum
> >
> >Topic: Multi-agent spatial modeling of foot-and-mouth disease
> >
> >Location: School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences
> (PEMS)
> >and the Defence and Security Applications Research Centre (DSA),
> University
> >of New South Wales, Canberra Campus, Australia
> >
> >The deliberate introduction of an exotic animal disease, such as
> >foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) into Australia, in order to exact economic
> >damage, is considered a plausible bioterrorist scenario. Being able to
> >realistically model the course of such an induced epidemic would provide
> >veterinary and defence authorities with a useful tool to understand how
> it
> >might develop and assist in evolving control strategies. A natural
> framework
> >for such epidemic disease modelling uses a network of farms based on
> >established contact structures. Although such models have been
> successfully
> >developed for some human diseases, this approach cannot readily be
> applied
> >to a FMD outbreak due to the lack of much of the requisite data. As data
> >capture is unlikely to improve in the foreseeable future, the challenge
> is
> >to develop sophisticated models which accept imperfect input data. The
> PhD
> >student will investigate potential complex systems models for this
> problem.
> >
> >The Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) at CSIRO and the School of
> >Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences (PEMS) at the
> University
> >of New South Wales@ADFA campus in Canberra, are calling for nominations
> from
> >suitable students to join a team of world-class researchers looking at
> >fundamental and applied research of complex adaptive systems approaches.
> The
> >candidate will be located in Canberra, with potential visits to the AAHL
> >laboratory in Geelong, Victoria. The candidate will be supervised by Dr.
> Amy
> >Griffin (UNSW-ADFA) and co-supervised by Dr. Peter Durr (CSIRO) and
> A/Prof.
> >Hussein Abbass (UNSW-ADFA).
> >
> >Applicants should have a first-class honours or equivalent in geography,
> >geomatics, mathematics, information technology, physics, or other
> relevant
> >areas. The applicant should possess basic computer programming skills.
> The
> >DSA has licenses for a number of multi-agent system software packages,
> >therefore low level programming may not be required.
> >
> >Applications should include a detailed CV (please include a summary of
> your
> >transcript) and a cover letter detailing the relevance of the applicants'
> >background to the project.
> >
> >Queries should be emailed to Dr Amy L. Griffin, a.griffin@adfa.edu.au.
> >Deadline for applications is January 15th or until the position is filled
> >for a possible starting date of March 2007.
>
>
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