Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik

The Institute of Geometry and Applied Mathematics (IGPM) offers a two year position for a PhD student or Post-doc. In the case of a PhD student, the position is extendable to cover a complete PhD period. The salary is according to the German civil service TV-L E 13 scale. The candidate will be employed as a regular employee on a 75 percent time position. The position is to be filled as soon as possible.
The project in which you will participate is funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). Together with Professor Lukacova, University of Mainz, and other colleagues, we are developing and expanding a novel finite volume discretization of multidimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. Particular focus is given to the famous low Mach number limit of compressible/incompressible fluid dynamics.
Besides participating in the development of new ideas, you will be responsible to implement the new algorithms into an already written, well-structured C++ code.
We expect that you have a master degree in mathematics, computational engineering or a related field. In particular, you should have a solid knowledge of pde's (ideally hyperbolic conservation laws), numerical analysis and C++.
For further information, please contact me by email, or send your application by 15.10.2011.