Two Post-Doc positions are offered at the Mathematics Department , at University of Campinas – Unicamp, Brazil, for young researchers in Coding Theory and Discrete Geometries.

University of Campinas is one of the leading universities in Brazil and the Mathematics Department is one of the leading departments in Latin America, with a strong graduate program.

The grants are offered by Prof. Marcelo Firer ( [email protected] ), who is currently interested in research in coding theory in spaces endowed with poset metrics, in the relation between metric and probabilistic decoding criteria and possible applications using unequal error protection.

The position includes a monthly grant of R$ 6,143.40 (Brazilian Reais, equivalent to US$ 2.450, approximately, tax-free), air-tickets for the researcher, an additional payment in first month to cover moving expenses and an additional of 15% of his/her monthly stipend that can be used to support research activities (acquisition of equipment, books, participation in conference and so on). The position is offered for two years.

Applications should be send until February 28 ^th , 2015, to Marcelo Firer, to the email [email protected] .

More details in http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~mfirer/postdoc.html .