Members of a recently funded NSF proposal for Physics at the Information Frontier invite applications for three post-doctoral research positions. These positions are renewable for up to three years with the starting dates negotiable. The three post-doctoral researchers will be located (one each) at Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University and the University of Connecticut.
The post-doctoral researchers will help develop a grid-enabled analysis toolkit to carry out amplitude analysis on large, distributed data sets. The toolkit will have an interface which will easily allow theoretical models to be tested against data as well as allowing merging of multiple data sets from different experiments. The tools will be used to fit theoretical models of resonance formation to experimental data with the goal of identifying relevant amplitudes and then associating these with underlying resonance structure. The tool kit will be developed using existing experimental data from several different experiments -- Brookhaven E852, the CLAS experiment at Jefferson Lab and charm decays from CLEO-c. The successful candidates will work together with each other and faculty, scientists and students at the three universities.
Requirements: The minimum requirement is a Ph.D. in nuclear/high-energy physics or computer science and significant familiarity with data analysis. Particular emphasis will be placed on experience with analysis of large data sets, coding in C++, use of XML, and Open Science Grid tools.
The positions at Indiana and Carnegie Mellon will focus on core analysis development, while the position at Connecticut will emphasize the interface to the Open Science Grid. For more information about the positions, please contact Matt Shepherd (mashephe@indiana.edu), Curtis Meyer (cmeyer@cmu.edu) or Richard Jones (jonesrt@uconn.edu).
Application
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and summary of research interests, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to:
Professor Curtis A. Meyer
Physics Department
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
or electronically to: cmeyer@cmu.edu
Review of applications will begin in August 2007 with applications being accepted until the positions are filled.
The post-doctoral researchers will help develop a grid-enabled analysis toolkit to carry out amplitude analysis on large, distributed data sets. The toolkit will have an interface which will easily allow theoretical models to be tested against data as well as allowing merging of multiple data sets from different experiments. The tools will be used to fit theoretical models of resonance formation to experimental data with the goal of identifying relevant amplitudes and then associating these with underlying resonance structure. The tool kit will be developed using existing experimental data from several different experiments -- Brookhaven E852, the CLAS experiment at Jefferson Lab and charm decays from CLEO-c. The successful candidates will work together with each other and faculty, scientists and students at the three universities.
Requirements: The minimum requirement is a Ph.D. in nuclear/high-energy physics or computer science and significant familiarity with data analysis. Particular emphasis will be placed on experience with analysis of large data sets, coding in C++, use of XML, and Open Science Grid tools.
The positions at Indiana and Carnegie Mellon will focus on core analysis development, while the position at Connecticut will emphasize the interface to the Open Science Grid. For more information about the positions, please contact Matt Shepherd (mashephe@indiana.edu), Curtis Meyer (cmeyer@cmu.edu) or Richard Jones (jonesrt@uconn.edu).
Application
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and summary of research interests, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to:
Professor Curtis A. Meyer
Physics Department
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
or electronically to: cmeyer@cmu.edu
Review of applications will begin in August 2007 with applications being accepted until the positions are filled.
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