Education
Aug. 2003	Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, thesis title: "Advances and Applications in Perfect Sampling", advisor Jem Corcoran
May 1999	M.S., Mathematics, with distinction ("Magistra der Naturwissenschaften", "mit Auszeichnung"), University of Vienna, Austria, master's thesis title: "Tabu Search for Scheduling Problems", advisor Arnold Neumaier

Research Experience
June 2003 - September 2004	Postdoctoral Researcher, Geophysical Statistics Project (GSP), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado
Fall 2001 - Spring 2003	Research Assistant (NSF Grant NSF-0081789), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado
Summer 2002	Research Assistant, Geophysical Statistics Project National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Fall 2000	Algorithm and Software Developer, OptTek Systems, Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Fall 1997 - Spring 1998	Research Assistant (FWF grant P11516-MAT), Group for Computational Mathematics (CMA), Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria

Teaching Experience
Spring 2006	External Lecturer, Department of Statistics and Decision Support and Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria
Summer 2001	Graduate Instructor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado
Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001	Teaching Assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado
Spring 1998 - Spring 1999	Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria

Honors and Fellowships
2001/2002	Francis P. Stribic Fellowship, University of Colorado
2000/2001	Francis P. Stribic Fellowship, University of Colorado
Summer 2000	Graduate P. School Fellowship, University of Colorado
Oct. 1998	Foreign Exchange Scholarship, University of Vienna ("Kurzfristige wissenschaftl. Aufenthalte im Ausland") - spent 1 month at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado
Feb. 1997	Vacation Scholarship, Department of Mathematics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Fall 1996	Foreign Exchange Scholarship (study abroad) of the University of Vienna - spent 1 semester at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
1996	prize for academic excellence ("Leitungsstipendium"), University of Vienna

Research Interests
Applied Probability	MCMC methods, Perfect Sampling
Statistics	Extreme Value Theory, Bayesian Model Selection, Modeling and Inference for Hierarchical and Spatio-temporal Processes
Operations Research	Meta-heuristic Search Methods

Publications

E. Gilleland, D. Nychka, and U. Schneider, Spatial Models for the Distribution of Extremes, Computational Statistics: Hierarchical Bayes and MCMC Methods in the Environmental Sciences, edited by J.S. Clark and A. Gelfand, Oxford University Press, 2006.

J.N. Corcoran and U. Schneider, Pseudo-Perfect and Adaptive Variants of the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm with an Independent Candidate Density, J. Stat. Comp. Sim., 2005, 75 (6), 459-475.

U. Schneider and J.N. Corcoran, Perfect Sampling for Bayesian Variable Selection in a Linear Regression Model, J. Stat. Plann. Inference (2004), 126 (1), 153-171.

J.N. Corcoran, and U. Schneider, Shift and Scale Coupling Methods for Perfect Simulation, Prob. Eng. Inf. Sci. (2003) 17, 277-303.

Preprints

J.N. Corcoran, U. Schneider, and H.-B. Schüttler, Perfect Stochastic Summation of High Order Feynman Graph Expansions, submitted for publication.

Additional Information
Computer Skills	Unix, LaTeX, Matlab, Mathematica, C, Java, S-PLUS, R
Languages	German (native), English (fluent), French (basic knowledge)
Citizenship	Austrian

References

Douglas Nychka, Project Leader, Senior Scientist

Geophysical Statistics Project, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe),

NCAR, Boulder, CO

Phone: 303-497-1711, Fax: 303-497-1333, E-mail: nychka (at) ucar (dot) edu

Jem Corcoran, Associate Professor

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder

Phone: 303-492-0685, Fax: 303-492-4066, E-mail: corcoran (at) colorado (dot) edu

Fred Glover, Professor of Operations Management and Operations Research

Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder

Phone: 303-492-8589, Fax: 303-492-5962, E-mail: glover (at) colorado (dot) edu

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