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<h2>Survey Astronomers/scientific programmers in support of OmegaCEN
and
ASTRO-WISE Survey Systems at the Kapteyn Institute Groningen</h2>
<h3>OmegaCEN - Kapteyn Institute<br>
P.O. Box 800<br>
Groningen, NL- 9700 AV<br>
The Netherlands<br>
Tel: +31-50-3634011<br>
FAX: +31-50-636100<br>
Email Submission Address: E.A.Valentijn@rug.nl<br>
Email Inquiries: E.A.Valentijn@rug.nl<br>
URL: <a href="http://www.astro.rug.nl/omegacen">www.astro.rug.nl/omegacen</a><br>
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<p> <i>Attention: E.A. Valentijn, Prof Dr</i> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">OmegaCEN,
the Dutch data center supporting the data reduction and analysis
of
optical wide field imagers, seeks optical astronomer/scientific
programmers to support various survey projects of OmegaCAM
at ESO's VLT
Survey
Telescope and its advanced distributed data reduction
systems
being
developed by OmegaCEN at the Kapteyn Institute. <br style="">
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>OmegaCEN leads the developments for the
ASTRO-WISE project. ASTRO-WISE operates a European
astronomical wide field imaging survey system, facilitating
astronomical
research, data reduction, data distribution<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>and data mining based on the
output of the new generation of wide-field sky survey cameras. The
programme
has ambitious goals in the areas of on-the-fly-reprocessing, parallel
processing, data basing of very large data volumes, federating data
volumes and
distributed processing. <span style="">The Astro-Wise
information system is implemented and will be connected to the
European Virtual Observatory and dataGRIDs and is expected to
be used for the production of several large Wide Field imaging
Surveys at the VST (e.g VESUVIO, OmegaWhite, VST16, KIDS). <br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">In 2006
various openings are expected at OmegaCEN:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">- focus
on Euro-VO take up of Dutch archives and information systems like
AstroWise and Lofar (project Euro-VO DCA))<br>
- focus on user VO take-up and GRID connections of the Lofar project,
as workpackage manager (project Lofar)<br>
- focus on OmegaCAM survey production and astronomical research and/or
research on very large database IT (project OmegaCEN)<br>
- developing noval visualization techniques of
multi-dimensional tabulated data (project AstroVIS, profs.
van der Hulst, Roerdink)<br>
<br>
</span></span></p>
<p><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Knowledge and practice of
C, UNIX/LINUX operating systems, <span style=""> </span>Python
scripting,
astronomical image processing are an
advantage.
A strong team spirit is essential. The initial appointment will be<span
style=""> </span>fixed-term, up to 3 or 4 years. <span style=""></span>Positions
will be
filled preferably in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Groningen</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">, but </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Leiden</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"> is also an option; both junior and
senior persons are encouraged to apply. <br>
Successful applicants will have an astronomical background and will
have a
strong affinity to advanced software engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Applications/CV should be
sent to Prof Dr Edwin A. Valentijn, OmegaCEN head
E.A.Valentijn@rug.nl <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http:/www.astro.rug.nl/omegacen">www.astro.rug.nl/omegacen</a>
(OmegaCEN homepage)<br>
<a href="http://www.astro-wise.org">www.astro-wise.org </a>
(Astro-Wise homepage)<br>
<a href="http:/www.astro.rug.nl/omegacam">www.astro.rug.nl/omegacam</a>
(OmegaCAM homepage)<br>
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