<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Fully funded 3-year PhD position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. </span><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><a href="https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/studentships/combinatorics-of-visual-perception/" class="gmail-">https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/studentships/combinatorics-of-visual-perception/</a></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">The Department is a world-leading research centre with strengths in Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. It offers a strong research environment spanning a wide range of research topics such as complexity theory and algorithms, distributed computing and computer networks, verification and formal methods, automata and computability theory, computational game theory, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing.</span></font><br class="gmail-"><br class="gmail-"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">The specific project is cross-disciplinary by its very nature. We are interested in the analysis of the mathematical properties of finite configurations of objects (typically points) in bounded geometric environments, particularly those that originate from random processes. Relative distances, clustering properties, and other spatial features seem relevant, their typical values and their correlations. This study will be carried out within the context of an important experimental research area: we plan to investigate how the mathematical features of the configurations inform our understanding of perceptual properties such as perceived order, complexity, and numerosity. The project is part of an exciting on-going collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychological Science, focusing on the interplay between mathematically defined concepts and human perception, the study (both analytical and algorithmic) of combinatorial properties or random structures, and their relationship with the mechanisms that affect the way we see the world.</span></font><br class="gmail-"><br class="gmail-"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">The main supervisor (Michele Zito) is based in the Computer Science Department, while the second supervisor (Marco Bertamini) is based in the Department of Psychological Science.</span></font><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">Application Deadline: 15 June 2018</span></font><br></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><a href="https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/studentships/combinatorics-of-visual-perception/" class="gmail-">https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/studentships/combinatorics-of-visual-perception/</a></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><a href="https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/studentships/combinatorics-of-visual-perception/" class="gmail-"></a><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-">Marco Bertamini                         <a href="mailto:M.Bertamini@liverpool.ac.uk" class="gmail-">M.Bertamini@liverpool.ac.uk</a><br class="gmail-">School of Psychology                +44 (0)151 794 2954 (office)<br class="gmail-">Eleanor Rathbone Building     <br class="gmail-">University of Liverpool             <br class="gmail-">Liverpool L69 7ZA<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span><br class="gmail-"><br class="gmail-"><a href="http://www.bertamini.org/lab" class="gmail-">www.bertamini.org/lab</a><br class="gmail-"><br class="gmail-"><a href="https://www.programmingvisualillusionsforeveryone.online/">https://www.programmingvisualillusionsforeveryone.online</a> <br class="gmail-"><br class="gmail-"><a href="https://iphsliv.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0HDqCFSgZJ8q38p">https://iphsliv.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0HDqCFSgZJ8q38p</a></div></div></div></div>