Dear Colleague:

I am writing to you to ask you to publicize within interest students about the following postdoctoral position.
At present, I am in charge of a research program that in centered in the mathematical study of complex financial products. 
You can find my project at http://www.math.jst.go.jp/en/scientists/teamkohatsu/index.html where a short project description also appears.

The project at this point involves the modelling of complex financial products (at this moment we are working on credit risk), 
its simulation, mathematical properties and studies of the error of approximation, statistical techniques between other issues.

At this point, we have two openings for postdoctoral positions related to the project. These positions are for 1 year 
(with possible renewals every year). Any candidate that has a background on computational finance (in particular credit risk)
 and/or financial statistics or mathematical statistics and is willing to contribute to the goals of the project is invited to apply. 
Please send a current vita with a picture and current list of publications indicating if they are published or under consideration for publications. 
Copies of  published papers (up to a maximum of 5) should be sent with the application. 
At this point we do not require any reference letters which may be required at a later stage but you should note the names
 and contact details of two persons who can give references about the candidate. 

We are looking forward to applications which will be given careful consideration. With due respect,

Sincerely yours,

Arturo Kohatsu Higa
Osaka University
Graduate School of Engineering Sciences
Machikaneyama cho 1-3, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
Ph: 81--6--6850--6462, Fax:81-6-6850-6496
Office: Building J, 614
http://elis.sigmath.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/~kohatsu/