13 Feb 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università degli Studi di Bologna- Research Field
Mathematics » Geometry
Physics » Mathematical physics
Physics » Quantum mechanics- Researcher Profile
First Stage Researcher (R1)- Country
Italy- Application Deadline
15 Apr 2024 - 12:00 (Europe/Rome)- Type of Contract
Temporary- Job Status
Full-time- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
H2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions- Marie Curie Grant Agreement Number
101119552- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
We are excited to advertise 11 3-year positions for PhD degrees to begin in 2024 as part of the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Doctoral Network (MSCA DN) CaLiFornia “Cartan and differential geometry, Lie theory, quantum groups and non commutative geometry For novel and Innovative Applications to quantum algorithms and geometric deep learning ”. CaLiFornia is a research training network, which aims to push the frontier of research in these two key topics, Lie Theory and Cartan Geometry in synergy with the complementary investigations in the areas of quantum groups and more generally non commutative geometry, including physical applications. The goal of CaLiFornia is to apply the new mathematics originating by the above research to the new and strategic fields of quantum computing and geometric deep learning, top priorities in HorizonEurope.
The consortium includes the following recruiting institutions:
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | IT | Beneficiary | DC3,DC8, DC9 |
Univerzita Karlova - University of Prague | CZ | Beneficiary | DC5 |
Masarykova Univerzita - University of Brno | CZ | Beneficiary | DC1,DC2 |
Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences | CZ | Beneficiary | DC4 |
University of Valencia | ES | Beneficiary | DC6,DC7 |
University of Amsterdam | NL | Beneficiary | DC10 |
University of Zurich | CH | Associated partner | DC11 |
University of California | USA | Associated partner |
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University of Auckland | NZ | Associated partner |
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Anabios | USA | Associated partner |
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VST | IT | Associated partner |
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IQM | IT | Associated partner |
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For more information, see the project’s website: https://site.unibo.it/california-msca-se/en
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Master's degree (specific degrees depending on the positions) with excellent accademic transcripts.
We are looking for highly motivated, outstanding students with optimal interpersonal and communication skills.
All candidates must prove full proficiency in spoken and written English.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible for all positions, the applicants must satisfy the following requirements:
They must not be already in possession of a doctoral degree.
They must comply with the MSCA mobility rule: not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting beneficiary for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to their recruitment.
Applicants who will complete their Master’s degree by the deadline for enrolment in the PhD programme are also entitled to apply*
*Local eligibility criteria apply depending on each position and beneficiary institution. Please check the individual position description on the website
Additional Information
Benefits
A PhD thesis co-supervised by 2 main supervisors (Supervisor #1 and Supervisor #2) from 2 different institutions and access to 2 research environments in different countries
Further intersectorial and international experience through a 2-month secondment at partner organisations
The opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team within a world-wide consortium of research institutions and industrial partners
An extensive network-wide training program
DC are funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) of the European Union’s “Horizon Europe” research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101119552
The MSCA programme offers competitive and attractive working conditions. The successful candidates will receive a salary in accordance with the MSCA regulations for doctoral candidates. Gross salary will consist of a Living Allowance (= € 3.400/monthly, correction factor to be applied per country) and a monthly Mobility Allowance of €600. An additional family monthly allowance of €660 is applicable depending on family situation (for additional information see the EU MSCA website ). Please be aware that these amounts are subject to taxes, the exact salary will be confirmed upon employment.
Additional comments
Starting dates of the projects will be between 01/06/2024 and 30/11/2024.
Where to apply
All the application material should be sent to the following mailbox: [email protected]
Contact
For more information see the project’s website https://site.unibo.it/california-msca-se/en For questions about the application procedure please contact: [email protected]
Selection process
The selection procedure will consist of the following steps:
Eligibility check: The Recruitment Committee will check that each application is complete and that applicants fulfill the eligibility criteria described in the previous sections.
Remote Evaluation: Each eligible application will be evaluated independently by
the Selection Committee according to the project options expressed by the applicants.
Online interviews: The short-listed candidates will be interviewed by a Selection
Committee that will include the recruiting PIs plus one/two additional consortium
members and/or external members with a balance in terms of gender (not less than
one-third), geography and academic/private sector representation. Candidates,
positively evaluated, but not initially called for interviews, will be put on a reserve list
(for reallocation in case of candidate(s) withdrawal).
Notification of the selection outcomes: Short-listed candidates will be informed about the outcome, and those selected will be put in touch with the corresponding PI and the HR Department of the hosting institution to initiate the hiring procedure. Applicants who have not been successful, but who have received a positive evaluation, will be put on a reserve list to cover possible renunciations and future selections.
Recruitment calendar:
Call opening: 13th February 2024
Deadline for applications: 15th April 2024
Remote evaluation: 16th April - 30st April 2024
Interviews: (selected candidates will receive notice of at least 10 days prior to the interview): 1st May - 30th May 2024
Notification to candidates: 15th June 2024
Start date of the fellowship: September/November 2024
Company/Institute Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Country Italy
City Bologna
How to apply
Candidates are required to submit the following supporting documents through/to
The Application form template including Personal information; Education and research experiences, Language and other relevant skills; Contact details of at least two scientists for reference; List of the three (maximum) positions each candidate is interested in.
Curriculum Vitae
A certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of exams taken with relative marks. A certified/signed copy of Master of Science certificate.
A motivation letter (maximum 1 page) highlighting relevant research experience, skills and academic achievements and explaining why you are interested in the program and in the selected research projects.
Two letters of support provided by academics and research professionals
DC1 – Cartan connection and Representation Theory
PhD Enrolment : Masaryk University – Czech Republic
Supervisor #1: Katharina Neusser(MU)
Supervisor #2: Ashwin Rod Gover (UOA)
Objectives: Investigate various aspects of rigid geometric structures using Cartan connections and methods from representation theory.
Expected outcomes: New advances in the theory of Cartan connnections and their applications to problems in differential and complex (algebraic) geometry, as well as physics.
Requirements
Research Field: Mathematics
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics.
General knowledge of Differential geometry.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC2 – Geometric control theory
PhD Enrolment : Masaryk University – Czech Republic
Supervisor #1: Jan Slovak(MU)
Supervisor #2: Andrew Waldron (UC)
Objectives: Find new geometric techniques via Cartan geometry and tractor calculus for the geometric control theory problems, including singularities
Expected outcomes: Extending the alternative method to understand the coupled ODE systems describing the normal extremals, to include singularities
Requirements
Research Field: Mathematics
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics.
General knowledge of Differential geometry.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC3 – Contact geometry with boundary for applications
PhD Enrolment : Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita’ di Bologna - Italy
Supervisor #1: Emanuele Latini (UniBO)
Supervisor #2: Andrew Waldron (UC)
Objectives: Generalize, in terms of the curved orbit decomposition program, tractor calculus and the notion of defining densities for the study of conformal manifolds as the asymptotic boundary of a certain Poincare ́-Einstein manifolds
Expected outcomes: A better understanding of physical applications (Schroedinger equation), in the context of contact geometry with asymptotic boundary. A theoretical framework for applied problems, e.g. (quantum) information geometry.
Requirements
Research Field: Mathematics, Physics
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics.
General knowledge of Differential geometry and Quantum Mechanics.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC4 – Quantum flags and C* algebras
PhD Enrolment : Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University – Czech Republic
Supervisor #1: Karen R. Strung (IMCAS)
Supervisor #2: Peter Somberg (CU)
Objectives: extend known constructions of graph C*-algebra models for the C* algebras of quantum homogeneous spaces of Drinfeld–Jimbo quantum groups.
Expected outcomes: A new insight in the calculation of explicit K and KK-theory classes of homogeneous spaces in the C* algebraic context.
Requirements
Research Field: Mathematics.
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics.
General knowledge of Analysis.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC5 – Baum-Connes conjecture for quantum symmetric spaces
PhD Enrolment : Charles University – Czech Republic
Supervisor #1: RéamonnÓ Buachalla (CU)
Supervisor #2: Ferdinando Zanchetta (UniBO)
Objectives: Noncommutative geometry of the quantum flag manifolds from a geometric and algebraic point of view Noncommutative Kähler geometry of the Heckenberger–Kolb calculi of the irreducible quantum flag manifolds.
Expected outcomes: A more formal geometric framework on quantum differential calculus that we extend to the higher orders, where quantum Dolbeault–Dirac operator for the full quantum flag (A type) is replaced by an operator constructed from the quantum BGG sequence of Uq(sln).
Requirements
Research Field: Mathematics.
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics or related fields.
General knowledge of Differential Geometry.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC6 - Quantum Harmonic Superspace and unitary representations
PhD Enrolment : University of Valencia - Spain
Supervisor #1: Maria A. Lledo(UVEG)
Supervisor #2: Rita Fioresi (UniBO)
Objectives: Generalize the Mackey machine to supersymmetry (SUSY).
Expected outcomes: Obtain Quantum Minkowski Superspace as homogeneous space together with Poincaré quantum supergroup unitary representations (arbitrary spin representations).
Requirements
Research Field: Physics.
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics or related fields.
General knowledge of Quantum mechanics and Geometry.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC7 – Quantum Information Geometry
PhD Enrolment : University of Valencia - Spain
Supervisor #1: Armando Perez-Canellas (UVEG)
Supervisor #2: Elisa Ercolessi (UniBO)
Objectives: To investigate the Fisher information as a geometric resource in quantum metrology and quantum machine learning.
Expected outcomes: To improve the performance of variational algorithms, with application to quantum machine learning and quantum metrology.
Requirements
Research Field: Mathematics,Physics.
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics or related fields.
General knowledge of Quantum theory.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC8 – Quantum Algorithms
PhD Enrolment : Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita’ di Bologna - Italy
Supervisor #1: Elisa Ercolessi (UniBO)
Supervisor #2: Armando Perez-Canellas (UVEG)
Objectives: Exploit the geometry of quantum states to develop more efficient schemes for hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithms.
Expected outcomes: Integration of the quantum circuit and the optimization part in order to take full advantage of the properties of the quantum space where evolution and measurements occur.
Requirements
Research Field: Physics.
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics or related fields.
General knowledge of Quantum mechanics and Computer Science.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC9 – Geometric Deep Learning
PhD Enrolment : Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita’ di Bologna - Italy
Supervisor #1: Rita Fioresi (UniBo)
Supervisor #2: Jan Slovak (MU)
Objectives: Exploit sheaf theory and information geometry to understand parameter and data spaces in group equivariant graph neural network.
Expected outcomes: New emerging algorithms through group equivariance of graphs. New sheaf theoretic approach to graph convolutions. New application to biological data analysis.
Requirements
Research Field: Mathematics,Physics.
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics or related fields.
General knowledge of Differential Geometry and Computer Science.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC10 – Geometric Deep Learning
PhD Enrolment : Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita’ di Bologna - Italy
Supervisor #1: Erik Bekkers (UvA)
Supervisor #2: Rita Fioresi (UniBo)
Objectives: Understand group equivariant graph neural network.
Expected outcomes: New emerging algorithms through group equivariance of graphs. New application to biological data analysis.
Requirements
Research Field: Mathematics,Physics.
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics or related fields.
General knowledge of Differential Geometry and Computer Science.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences.
DC11 – Palatini – Cartan formalism
PhD Enrolment : University of Zurich - Switzerland
Supervisor #1: Alberto Cattaneo (UZH)
Supervisor #2: Emanuele Latini (UniBo)
Objectives: Bring BV, BFV formalisms centerstage to develop a new approach to Palatini gravity.
Expected outcomes: new differential geometric and representation theory tools for the WP3, WP4.
Requirements
Research Field: Physics.
Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent
Specific requirements:
MSc degree in mathematics or physics or related fields.
General knowledge of Differential Geometry and Physics.
Excellent English language communication skills (written and spoken).
Available for long travels to perform research at consortium partners as well as
available for short travels to consortium meetings and/or conferences
For further information:
https://site.unibo.it/california-msca-se/en
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Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 3
- Company/Institute
- Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita' di Bologna
- Country
- Italy
- Geofield
- Number of offers available
- 2
- Company/Institute
- Masaryk University - University of Brno
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Geofield
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Charles University - University of Prague
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Geofield
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Geofield
- Number of offers available
- 2
- Company/Institute
- University of Valencia
- Country
- Spain
- Geofield
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- University of Amsterdam
- Country
- Netherlands
- Geofield
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- University of Zurich
- Country
- Switzerland
- Geofield
Where to apply
[email protected]
Contact
- Website
https://site.unibo.it/california-msca-se/en
STATUS: EXPIRED
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