One year post doc position on maths of landmines

Thanks to a Royal Society Challenge grant we have a one year post doc to work on the mathematics of metal detection to improve land mine clearance. (Starting as soon as possible - recruitment closes January 2017)

Job advert here

We are concentrating especially on the polarization tensor for the eddy current approximation to Maxwell's equation. See the following papers

• Ammari, H., Chen, J., Chen, Z., Garnier, J. & Volkov, D. (2014) Target detection and characterization from electromagnetic induction data. J. Math. Pures Appl., 101, 54–75 
•  Paul D. Ledger and William R. B. Lionheart
  Characterizing the shape and material properties of hidden targets from magnetic induction data IMA J Appl Math first published online June 26, 2015 doi:10.1093/imamat/hxv015 
•  P. D. Ledger and W. R. B. Lionheart, "Understanding the Magnetic Polarizability Tensor," in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 1-16, May 2016.doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2015.250716  

We hope to use elements of Timo Betcke's boundary element code BEM++