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Ongoing Research Seeks to Illuminate the Prevalence of Fires in the Waste Industry
2018-02-01 17:20:04| Waste Age
Ryan Fogelman has been tracking fires since January 2016.
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PNNL, UW create materials research initiative
2018-02-01 14:56:22| Green Car Congress
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New Research Unveiled to Improve Accounting for Non-Hazardous Industrial Waste in the U.S.
2018-01-29 18:17:11| Waste Age
Jonathan Krones, postdoctoral associate at Yale University, will debut the final results of his research to improve accounting for NHIW at GWMS.
Research into breakdown of wool fibres in seawater
2018-01-29 14:52:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Amid rising concerns over the impact of microfibres from synthetic textiles polluting the aquatic environment, a group of scientists in New Zealand is now studying how woollen clothing biodegrades in seawater.
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Internal Research Fellow PostDoc in Information Retrieval
2018-01-25 13:17:36| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Research Fellow opportunity in the Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality. ESA is an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. Applications from women are encouraged. Post Internal Research Fellow PostDoc in Information Retrieval This post is classified F2 on the Coordinated Organisations salary scale. Location ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Description The Research Fellow will be based in the Advanced Concepts Team ACT, a group of research fellows postdocs and young graduates who originate from a broad variety of academic fields and aim at an academic career. Its task is to monitor, perform and foster research on advanced space systems, innovative concepts and working methods. It interacts externally almost exclusively with academia and operates as a truly interdisciplinary team bound to high scientific standards. Via its research, the team acts as a crossdepartmental pathfinder to explore novel, potentially promising areas for ESA and the space sector, ranging from applied to basic fundamental research topics. An important task of the team is to communicate scientific trends and results, as input to the strategic planning of the Agency. Information retrieval IR is finding media documents, images, videos, etc from unstructured large collections to answer to ad hoc knowledge demands. The research field is closely related to information processing, natural language processing, and high performance computing. ESA produces large quantities of data payloads data, telemetry, research and study results, administration documents. The study and development of efficient IR algorithms and the adoptiondevelopment of advanced natural language processing techniques to extracting knowledge from those data is at the core of this fellowship. Interested candidates are highly encouraged to visit the ESA website www.esa.intESA Fields of activitiesresearch The successful candidate will carry out research in the field of information retrieval systems with a particular emphasis on methods allowing enhancing decision support systems for proposal evaluation and rapid retrieval of scientific data. Areas of research are partly chosen by the successful candidate based on hisher own expert judgements and insight into trends and developments, and partly chosen by the team as to follow strategic directions of the Agency. Scientifically shehe will in particular Propose and perform research in the field of information retrieval, where appropriate together with universities of ESA Member States in particular through the Ariadna programme Assess and investigate concepts and novel theoretical methods in information retrieval for synergies with ESAs activities Support the development of an innovative decision support system for technology research and system study proposals. Leverage on open source tools Apache Tika, clucene, etc. and modern computer architectures GPUs, multiple cores, etc. to develop new concepts for efficient IR systems. Investigate the synergies of IR with emerging AI methodologies in natural language processing and evolutionary computing to bring forth a higher level of semantic understanding. Liaise with the ESA Lab focussed on innovative Earth Observation applications. As ACT researcher, shehe will Publish results in peerreviewed publications and use modern communication tools to communicate with the broader audience inside and outside ESA Lead and assist interdisciplinary projects with other ACT researchers Participate together with the team in the assessment of proposed space system concepts these not being restricted only to artificial intelligence and computer science and propose new concepts and assessment studies and Perform and participate in assessments on subjects of strategic interest of ESA, provide in house expertise to strategy development. Technical competencies Knowledge relevant to the field of research Researchpublication record Ability to conduct research autonomously Breadth of exposure coming from past andor current researchactivities Interest in space and space research Ability to gather and share relevant information Behavioural competencies Innovation Creativity Continuous Learning Communication Teamwork Self Motivation Problem Solving Education Applicants must have obtained PhD in AI, Computer Science or Machine Learning, subject of the thesis being relevant to the description of the tasks outlined above and aim at an academicresearch career. A previous degree in either artificial intelligence, computer science, mathematics or engineering is required. Additional requirements Applicants must have Proficiency in C and Python programming languages and experiences in open source projects preferably Apache Tika and clucene, GPU programming, distributed computing and cloud computing are considered as strong assets A well established and recognized role in the open source software development community Ability for and interest in prospective interdisciplinary research Ability to contextualise specialised areas of research and quickly assess their potential with respect to other domains and applications Academic networking to add functioning links to universities and research institutes Ability to work in a team, while being able to work individually on hisher own personal research plans and directions Natural curiosity and a passion for new subjects and research areas. Other information The position of Research Fellow at ESAs Advanced Concepts Team is similar to a regular academic PostDoc placement, however with a few notable key differences ACT RFs have no teaching obligations. However, they will likely be involved in the mentoring of Young Graduate Trainees and stagiaires student interns within the team. As the team does not have a professorlike position, ACT RFs are academically more independent than most postdocs. This implies more freedom but also more responsibility for their research directions and approaches. ACT RFs are joining a diverse, changing and interdisciplinary research team embedded in a large space agency, in contrast to a more specialised, focused research group with close or similar competences. ACT RFs need to actively reach out to other disciplines, to bring their competences to interdisciplinary research projects and to encourage other researchers to join them in their core research projects research at the intersections of disciplines. ACT RFs need to communicate their expertise and research results internally and externally, including potential implications and importance for ESAs longterm strategy. For behavioural competencies expected from ESA staff in general, please refer to the ESA Competency Framework. The Agency may require applicants to undergo selection tests. The closing date for applications is 22 February 2018. In addition to your CV and your motivation letter, please add your proposal of no more than 5 pages outlining your proposed research. Candidates must also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent by email, before the deadline, to temp.htresa.int. The letters must be sent by the referees themselves. The candidates name must be mentioned in the subject of the email. If you require support with your application due to a disability, please email contact.human.resourcesesa.int. Please note that applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Canada and Slovenia. According to the ESA Convention the recruitment of staff must take into account an adequate distribution of posts among nationals of the ESA Member States. Priority will first be given to internal candidates and secondly to external candidates from underrepresented Member States when shortlisting for interview. httpesamultimedia.esa.intdocscareersNationalityTargets.pdf In accordance with the European Space Agencys security procedures and as part of the selection process, successful candidates will be required to undergo basic screening before appointment Apply HERE
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