Vacancies

Job description

The research consortium “Rational points: new dimensions”, funded by an NWO Open Competition ENW -- XL grant, offers a postdoc position in arithmetic geometry based at Leiden University or Utrecht University. As a postdoc you will contribute to one of the projects in the context of the research program “Rational points: new dimensions”, and have ample freedom to carry out your own research line. You will be part of a collaborative research team led by Martin Bright, Valentijn Karemaker, Ronald van Luijk, Steffen Müller, Marta Pieropan, and Cecília Salgado. The position comes with light teaching duties.

Qualifications

You are expected to have completed a PhD in mathematics before the starting date of the position. Furthermore, you should be interested in one or more of the following topics: rational and p-adic points on Fano varieties or K3 surfaces, local-global principles, Hilbert property, Campana points. A working proficiency in English will be necessary. Knowledge of the Dutch language is not required.

Offer

You will be employed either by Leiden University or by Utrecht University. You will work together with at least two consortium leaders and will have regular interactions with all consortium members, for instance via our monthly seminars. Each of the three consortium institutions has a very active algebraic geometry and number theory research group: Groningen, Leiden, Utrecht. You will have ample opportunity to participate in events organised by the consortium as well as other national events. Funding is also available to support travel to conferences and workshops abroad.

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You can apply through the following link. The application deadline is November 30, 2022.

Job description

The Mathematical Institute external link at Utrecht University is offering a 3-year postdoc position in arithmetic geometry funded by the VIDI grant “Fano varieties: rational points and beyond external link” of Marta Pieropan. The grant aims to develop a systematic approach to measure the distribution of special subsets of rational points, also called Campana points, on log Fano varieties over number fields or over global function fields, and to uncover their relation to logarithmic Gromov-Witten theory.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the project, as well as to develop your own research line. The main projects our group works on concern the arithmetic of rational points and Campana points on Fano type varieties using tools from analytic number theory, birational geometry and logarithmic geometry. The neighbouring research groups in the Mathematical Institute work on moduli spaces of sheaves, enumerative geometry, moduli spaces of curves and of abelian varieties, modular forms, analytic and algorithmic number theory, zeta functions and Galois representations attached to algebraic varieties. You will have no mandatory teaching duties. However, if you wish to do so, you will get the opportunity to acquire teaching experience.

You will be appointed to Utrecht University for this position, however as the research group is involved in a collaboration between multiple universities, including Leiden University and Groningen University, you will get the chance to visit the other universities for research purposes as well.

Qualifications

You will need a completed PhD in mathematics before the starting date of the position. Furthermore, you should be interested in one or more of the following topics: rational points, (log) Fano varieties, the circle method, counting techniques over global function fields, logarithmic geometry, moduli spaces of stable (log) maps. A working proficiency in English will be necessary, knowledge of the Dutch language is not required.

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If you are interested in applying or you want further details about the position, you can follow this link.