Junior Post-Doc. - Junior at Physics Dept., Sogang Univ., Seoul, Korea

 We are looking for a junior Post-Doc. who wants to do 4-D and 3-D quantum gravity researches together. Since this is a research position in a small personal research project, the budget is quite limited (especially not enough for hiring Senior Post-Doc.) and so I am looking for an ambitious young Post-Doc. who wants to join our "challenging research project" while studying with me. The details are as follows.

 1. Terms and conditions: June 2017 - May 2019; 1 + 1 year; Salary 2400 Won + alpha / year; 

 2. Required background knowledge:

   (1) Experiences of (or at least familiarity with) related researches on quantum field theory (4-dimensional quantum field theory or 3-dimensional Chern-Simons theory), in particular, practical knowledge/experience on "renormalization"

   (2) Experiences of (or at least familiarity with) related studies on the modified Einstein gravity, like f (R) or Gauss-Bonnet gravity, in particular, practical knowledge/experience on "ADM formalism, black hole solutions, Penrose diagram, Hawking radiation calculation".

   (3) No difficulties in analytic (tensor analysis) and numerical computations (ODE calculation) using Maple / Mathematica.

   (4) [Opional] Program encoding, Data analysis using MCMC (or CosmoMC)

   (5) Some string theory backgrounds (D brane, AdS / CFT, dS / CFT, etc) would be helpful though not studied directly in our works.

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 3. Research topics:

    [1] Gravity:

 D = 4, 3 Horava's quantum gravity:

 (1) Finding the exact as well as numerical black hole solutions,

 (2) (Non-Linear) Perturbation for various backgrounds, including cosmological ones,

 (3) (Dirac's) Constrains analysis

 [2] Field Theory:

 D = 3 Chern-Simons Formulation of 3D gravity:

 (1) Computing Virasoro algebras and Statistical Entropy (using Cardy's Formula)

 (2) Computing 3D gravity partition functions

 (3) Application to Condensed matter systems.

 4. Application materials:

 Applicants should submit pdf files of their (1) CV, (2) list of publications, (3) statement of research interests and arrange for (4) two or three letters of recommendation to be submitted electronically to "muinpark@gmail.com". Review of applications will continue until the position is filled (the decision will be made at least before April), but priority will be given to the applications received by 2016-2-28.

 Contact: Mu-In Park

 Email: muinpark@gmail.com