Objective SanDAL aims to create at the University of Luxembourg (UL) a high-level research group in Mathematical Statistics and Data Science (MS&DS). This will fill an identified gap between UL’s current research activity in mathematics (including probability theory but also geometry and mathematical physics), which developed well in recent years, and a number of applications of particular importance both for other academic research fields and for Luxembourg’s economic development. The ERA Chair will be offered a permanent full professorship at UL to ensure a sustainable structural change and improvement of Luxembourg’s Research and Innovation landscape. The project will also fund two postdoctoral positions for its full duration, and three PhD positions will be UL-funded. The main scientific directions of the project (to be precisely defined by the future ERA Chair Holder) will be High-Dimensional Data Analysis (including Probabilistic Aspects of High-Dimensional Data and Topological Data Analysis) and New Mathematical Tools for Contemporary Statistics (including Signal Reconstruction and the Mathematics of Sparsity, and Non-Parametric Bayesian Methods). In addition to the development of a strong and sustainable new direction of research at UL, SanDAL will permit the development of new teaching programs at MSc and PhD levels in MS&DS. It will therefore ensure a steady flow of MS&DS graduates that will be of value not only for mathematics but also for academic and non-academic research in other fields and in other economic areas. SanDAL will build on the existing expertise in mathematics (in particular probability theory, but also discrete geometry and topology) at UL. The contribution of an external Scientific Steering Committee, made of top experts in MS&DS, will be essential to its scientific success, while a National Advisory Board, made of some of the main users of MS&DS at the Luxembourg level, will ensure that it is relevant to the economy and other academic fields. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical physicsnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsstatistics and probabilitybayesian statisticsnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicstopologynatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometry Keywords Statistics data science data analysis topological data analysis signal reconstruction sparsity non-parametric Bayesian methods Programme(s) H2020-EU.4.c. - Establishing ‚ERA Chairs’ Main Programme Topic(s) WIDESPREAD-03-2017 - ERA Chairs Call for proposal H2020-WIDESPREAD-2016-2017 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-WIDESPREAD-03-2017-ERAChairs Funding Scheme CSA - Coordination and support action Coordinator UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG Net EU contribution € 2 498 500,00 Address 2 PLACE DE L'UNIVERSITE 4365 ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE Luxembourg See on map Region Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 2 498 500,00
