Deadline: 2017-07-31
Region: North America
Job description:
The Nuclear Physics Group at Wayne State University (WSU) in collaboration with the Lattice QCD group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has an immediate opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. One of the research directions to be pursued by the successful candidate will be to apply lattice gauge techniques to calculate jet-medium interactions in heavy ion collisions within the JETSCAPE collaboration. The term of the position will be one year, renewable annually for up to three years, beginning in the fall of 2017. The postdoctoral fellow may spend a maximum of two years at LLNL and a minimum of one year at Wayne State, following a mutually agreed upon plan. Research will be conducted alongside members of CalLat, consisting of Lattice QCD students, postdocs, and staff from LLNL, LBNL, and UC Berkeley. Compensation will be commensurate with candidate’s chosen location.
The Jet Energy-loss Tomography with a Statistically and Computationally Advanced Program Envelope (JETSCAPE) collaboration is a nine-institution collaboration of theoretical and experimental physicists, computer scientists and statisticians, funded by the NSF. The goal of the collaboration is the construction of a modular integrated software framework consisting of interacting generators to simulate (i) wave functions of the incoming nuclei in a heavy-ion collision, (ii) viscous fluid dynamical evolution of the hot plasma, and (iii) transport and modification of jets in the plasma. Integrated advanced statistical analysis tools will provide non-expert users with quantitative methods to validate novel theoretical descriptions of jet modification, by comparison with the complete set of current experimental data.The collaboration includes researchers from Duke University, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Lawrence Livermore National Lab., MIT, McGill University, Ohio-State University, Texas A&M University, University of California Berkeley and Wayne State University,
Interested candidates should notify Dr. Ron Soltz (soltz1@llnl.gov) or Prof. Abhijit Majumder (abhijit.majumder@wayne.edu) and submit CV, list of publications, brief statements of research, and three letters of recommendation through Academic Jobs Online https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9108 .
Wayne State University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.
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