Faculty Openings
Carnegie Mellon University
McWilliams Center for Cosmology

The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at the junior or senior level associated with the Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology.

The McWilliams Center, which has benefited from a major endowment gift to the university, joins efforts in particle physics and astrophysics within the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon.  Historically, the Department has had a strong effort in particle theory and high-energy experiment.  More recently, the Department has built up a theoretical and observational cosmology group, much of whose research is related to uncovering the nature of the dark part of the universe. The McWilliams Center synergizes these efforts within Physics and capitalizes on unique collaborative opportunities both within and outside Carnegie Mellon.

Powerful computing clusters have been created both within the McWilliams Center and in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science.  Carnegie Mellon joined the LSST collaboration, has faculty working on BOSS in SDSS-III, and is engaged in trying to build a new type of radio telescope to explore the universe using the 21 cm radiation of neutral Hydrogen.  Physical space for the McWilliams Center has been renovated within the Department of Physics.  The first two McWilliams Postdoctoral Fellows are at the Center this year, and the first of several new faculty members has been hired.  For more details, please visit the Center’s website at:  www.cmu.edu/cosmology

The research areas for the search include: theoretical astrophysics, with emphasis on computation and simulation; experimental astrophysics, with emphasis on the dark part of the universe and data mining; and theoretical particle physics, especially as related to LHC physics.  We seek candidates with significant accomplishments and promise for further achievement in exploring the nature of dark matter and dark energy.  Tenure-track appointments at the junior or senior level will be considered.  Successful candidates are encouraged to enhance links between the Department of Physics and the School of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, publication list, statement of research plans, and arrange for three letters of recommendation sent to:

Cosmology Search Committee
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Email:  cosmology-faculty-search2009@andrew.cmu.edu

For full consideration, all materials should be received by October 15, 2009.

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