Job title Research Fellow in Pure Mathematics (fixed-term)
Department Mathematical Sciences
Salary Starting from £46,485, rising to £55,295
Grade Grade 8
Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term
Placed on Monday 14 October 2024
Closing date Monday 21 October 2024
Interview date To be confirmed
Reference ED12007
Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)
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About the role
We are seeking to appoint a postdoctoral research associate to work with Lewis Topley on his project "Geometric Representation Theory and W-algebras", funded via the UKRI FLF scheme.
This phase of the grant is coming to an end, and so this is a short contract which will expire at the end of January 2025.
For this reason, the window for applications is unfortunately short.
The current focus of the project is the use of Yangians in the modular representation theory of classical Lie algebras.
The successful candidate will have some or all of the following attributes:
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