TA ad for STAT 540 – deadline for applicants is Oct 10th
To: Rahman, Abdur Rahman, Adriana Cortes, Alborz Mazloomian, Zhu, Alice, Alvin Tian, Andrew Roth, Calvin Lefebvre, Casper Shyr, Daniel Lai, Dean Attali, Dmitry Tebaykin, Elizabeth Chun, Emilia Lim, Emily Hindalong, Erdi Kucuk, Zhao, Eric, Evan Gatev, Fong Chan, Hamid Mohamadi, Huifang Li, Ian Wood, Jake Lever, Julie Chen, Justin Chu, Katayoon Kasaian, Keiran O’Neill, Kyle Lesack, Lauren Chong, Marjan Farahbod, Niel Hanson, Ogan Mancarci, Raunak Shrestha, Rebecca Hunt, Rebecca Johnston, Rodrigo Goya, Sarah Perez, Shaun Jackman, Shing Zhan, Sohrab Saheli, Thibault Dayris, Thuy Nguyen, Tyler Funnell, Ramnarine, Varune, Wenqiang Shi, Evan Durno, Trace Sun, Allen Zhang, Zhuang, Beryl, Siu, Celia, Yang, Chen, Morgan-Lang, Connor, Dmitry Tebaykin, Khan, Hamza, Topham, James, Nip, Ka Ming, Smith, Maia, Michael Gottlieb, Paul, Naman, Islam, Rashedul, McCloskey, Rosemary, Lin, Santina, Thibault Dayris
Gabriela Cohen-Freue, and Paul Pavlidis are seeking teaching assistants for STAT 540, cross-listed as BIOF 540 and GSAT 540, for January - April 2015. Information on the course can be found at this URL, with key facts stated below: http://www.stat.ubc.ca/~jenny/teach/STAT540/ STAT 540 Statistical methods for high dimensional biology, 3 credits Instructors: Jennifer Bryan, Gabriela Cohen-Freue and Paul Pavlidis TA(s): TBA 06 January 2015 - 08 April 2015 Lecture Mon Wed 9:30 - 11am in ESB 4192 Computing seminar / office hours 11am - 1pm Wed in ESB 1042 TA job Description --------------- Qualifications: Ideally you will have taken STAT 540 or have equivalent experience. You should be sufficiently knowledgeable to help students with basic statistics, R and biology domain questions that will arise, with more weight on the first two. To a certain extent, we can support the students through the combined strengths of the 2 TAs, so it is OK to be stronger in some area(s) than others. We make heavy use of R, the RStudio IDE, R markdown, the knitr R package, pandoc, and git(hub), so you should be experienced with and/or super keen to learn about these things. Experience with next-generation sequencing data would be a real plus, as would experience with methylation or epigentic data. Responsibilities during Jan - Apr 2015: - Attend (almost) all lectures - Improve/modify computing seminar material, as needed - Supervise computing seminars - Improve/modify the homework assignments, as needed - Monitor student questions and contributions to the Google group - Mark the homework assignments - Assist the instructors with guiding and marking group projects - Help maintain the course web site Time commitment: Quoting from the Quick Reference Guide to the CUPE 2278 Collective Agreement: "A full TAship ... means 192 hours per term." This means that a full TAship averages out to about 12 hours per week (192 hours / 16 weeks = 12). Pay: but pay for the term is around $5,600. Interested students should contact Sharon directly at sharonr@bcgsc.ca ; please include a resume. As this is a significant commitment, it is usually wise to chat with your research supervisor, if applicable, and see if s/he is supportive of you doing this. Deadline for applications is October 10, 2015.
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