The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Department of Mathematical Sciences invites applications for possible visiting assistant professorships in statistics to begin in the fall of 2002. An earned Ph.D. or equivalent degree is required. Successful candidates must demonstrate strong research potential and evidence of quality teaching, and will be expected to contribute to the department's research activities and to its innovative,project-based
educational programs. Applications are especially encouraged in the areas of time series, experimental design,
Bayesian methods, Monte Carlo methods, data mining methods, biostatistics, sample survey methods, and survival analysis.

Appointments will be made for one or two years, contingent on satisfactory teaching, with a possibility of renewal at the discretion of WPI and the appointee. The teaching load will be either five seven-week undergraduate courses or four of these plus one semester-long graduate course; the total load is equivalent to ten or eleven semester hours per year.

WPI is a private and highly selective technological university with an enrollment of 2700 undergraduates and about 1100 full- and part-time graduate students. Worcester, New England's second largest city, offers ready access to the diverse economic, cultural and recreational resources of the region.

The Mathematical Sciences Department has 24 tenured/tenure-track faculty and supports BS, MS, and PhD programs in applied and computational mathematics and applied statistics. For additional information, see http://www.wpi.edu/+math.

Qualified applicants should send a detailed curriculum vitae, a brief statement of specific teaching and research objectives, and three letters of recommendation, at least one of which addresses teaching potential, to either

Applicants will be considered on a continuing basis beginning February 1, 2002 until all positions are filled.

To enrich education through diversity, WPI is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.