The UK Research Council STFC has opened applications for its new Rutherford Fellowships. These are prestigious fellowships for people "with clear leadership potential" who have at least two years postdoc experience, and are intended to help them "to establish a strong, independent research programme". The fellowships are funded for a period of five years.

Full details are available here: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/Funding+and+Grants/508.aspx

If you are interested in applying with the University of Glasgow we would be pleased to hear from you, especially if you would like to work on ATLAS; contact me or Rick to talk about it.

Regards Aidan

Dr Aidan Robson
http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~robson
The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

The High Energy Physics group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral Research Associate on the CDF and ATLAS experiments. The Illinois group plays a role in the ATLAS Tile Hadron Calorimeter, data quality monitoring for muon systems, and trigger commissioning and operations. Our group is also actively developing a fast hardware tracker (FHT) as an upgrade to the current ATLAS trigger system. We also play a role in Grid computing through the operation of a large Tier-3 cluster at Illinois used for ATLAS production tasks and local physics analysis. Our research interests build upon our strong background in hadron collider physics from the CDF and ATLAS experiments and include electroweak/top physics and searches for the Higgs boson and new physics. The successful candidate will be expected to play a leading role in these areas and our trigger and computing activities. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in physics by the time of apointment. Prior experience in hardware and data analysis in experimental physics and an interest in these area is desirable.

Applicants should send curriculum vitae, list of publications, statement of research interests, and arrange for at least three letters of recommendation to be sent via email to Prof. Mark Neubauer (msn@illinois.edu).

Review of applications will begin on June 5, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled.

The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are looking for two Postdocs to work on the CDF experiment. The applicant should be less than 5 years after Ph.D. The main job is to study B physics. The position is a two-year appointment with the possibility of an extension. The salary depends on experiences by the institutional rule.

If you are interested in the job, please send Curriculum Vitae to Prof. Kihyeon Cho with the names of three references. The review of applications continues until the position is filled.

The Experimental High Energy program at Texas A&M is playing leading roles in searches for new physics in colliders experiments (CDF and CMS) and in direct dark matter detection (CDMS and LUX). With the group size of over 35 members, including eight faculty and three engineers and strong in-house infrastructure, the program plays strong roles in both physics analysis, operations and detector R&D for future experiments.

The TAMU HEP group invites applications for a postdoctoral position to participate on the CDF experiment. It is expected that the successful candidate will concentrate on searches for Supersymmetry with photons in the final state, but will also make significant contributions to both the hardware and software responsibilities of the group. More details on the CDF group's activities, led by Profs. Eusebi, Kamon, Safonov, and Toback can be found at txpc1.fnal.gov.

Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics and have demonstrated ability pertinent to the above activities. While we anticipate the successful candidate beginning in May 2010, the actual start date is negotiable, salary will be commensurate with experience. An application consisting of a CV, a short statement of physics interests, and three letters of recommendation must be received by April 1, 2010, however late applications will be considered until the position is filled, for more information contact Prof. D. Toback. Texas A&M University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to excellence through diversity. Texa A&M University particularly invites applications from minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities.

The experimental high energy physics group at the University of California, Davis, invites applications for three postdoctoral research positions in experimental particle physics on the CDF and CMS experiments, starting as soon as possible. A Ph.D. in particle physics is required.

The CDF experiment at the Tevatron at Fermilab continues to amass a very large data set, with plans to continue through 2011. UC Davis has responsibilities on the CDF trigger and operations, and a physics focus on searches for new phenomena with tau leptons (Higgs boson searches and supersymmetry), with top quarks, and in SM Higgs physics. The CDF group at UC Davis has four faculty, one senior researcher, two postdocs, and four graduate students. The successful candidate will initially focus on CDF at Fermilab, and later transition to CMS in 2011, working under the supervision of Profs. Robin Erbacher and John Conway, transitioning later to the CMS experiment.

The UC Davis group has been heavily involved in CMS since its beginning, and has made major contributions to both hardware and software aspects of the forward pixel and endcap muon detectors. Currently, the group is participating in detector commissioning and operations as well as preparing for physics data analysis at the start of LHC running. These include searches for Higgs and SUSY phenomena with leptons, including taus, new phenomena searches with photons, and measurements and searches with high-pT top quarks. The group is also developing projects for detector upgrades for high-luminosity LHC running. The CMS effort at UC Davis comprises six faculty, three senior researchers, four postdoctoral researchers, and nine graduate students. There are two CMS positions available, working under Profs. Maxwell Chertok, John Conway, Robin Erbacher, and Mani Tripathi.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and statement of research interests and experience, all in PDF format, and arrange to have at least three letters of reference sent to:

Mr. Bill Tuck
Department of Physics
One Shields Avenue
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-8677
Telephone: 530-752-4088/Facsimile: 530-752-4717
tuck@physics.ucdavis.edu
http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/Employment.html

Inquiries should be directed to hee-postdoc@physics.ucdavis.edu

The University of California Davis is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty and staff.

The Michigan State University High Energy Physics Group is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN with the possibility of also contributing to physics analysis of top quarks on the CDF experiment at Fermilab. The MSU group on ATLAS has participated in the design and construction of the TileCal hadron calorimeter as well as the higher level trigger. New efforts on ATLAS are focusing on the L1 calorimeter trigger upgrade plus physics simulations and preparations for data analysis when the LHC turns on this fall. A Ph.D. or equivalent in high energy physics is required, and candidates should have a background in Linux/Unix, C++/Object Oriented programming and packages such as CERNLIB and ROOT. We anticipate that this position will involve frequent travel to, or extended stays at CERN. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, including a description of research experience and interest, and arrange for three letters of reference to be e-mailed to Kirsten Tollefson. or mailed to: Professor Kirsten Tollefson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 3247 Biomedical Physical Sciences, East Lansing, MI 48824-2320.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Michigan State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution.