Post-Doctoral and Graduate-Student Fellowships

The training content of this project will be met by offering positions to young researchers, both postdoctoral fellows and graduate students working towards a doctoral degree. Appointments can start in the fall 2003, but earlier dates can also be considered. A committee consisting of representatives of all the partners will determine the most opportune way of employment of young researchers.
 

Currently offered positions:


Post-Doctoral Position at the University of Valencia
Nuclear Theory

The Hadronic and Nuclear Theory Group at the University of Valencia (Spain) invites applications for a postdoctoral position beginning in the early 2004. The appointment is for one plus one year.
   In addition to two faculty members (E. Oset and M.J. Vicente Vacas), our group currently consists of three postdocs and four PhD students. Our research interests are focussed on the low and intermediate energy hadronic physics. Research topics are:
   1) Meson and baryon interactions in chiral unitary theories
   2) Properties of dynamically generated resonances
   3) Exotic baryons
   4) Renormalization of meson and baryon properties in nuclei
   5) Propagation of photons, electrons, mesons, neutrinos... in nuclei
   6) Exotic atoms: pionic, kaonic, Sigma, eta
   7) Hypernuclei: Sigma, Lambda ...
Further information on the group activities can be obtained from the web page http://alpha.ific.uv.es/nucth/
   DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: JANUARY 15 2004.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a list of publications and a brief description of their research interests, and arrange for three letters of recom- mendations to be sent to    Prof. Eulogio Oset
   Departamento de Fisica Teorica and IFIC, Universidad de Valencia
   Postal address: IFIC Institutos de Investigacion de Paterna
   Aptdo. Correos 22085
   46071 Valencia (SPAIN)
   Telephone:+ 34 96 354 35 25
   Fax: +34 96 354 34 88
   email: oset@ific.uv.es


Post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Valencia

One two-year postdoctoral position.
Preferred starting date: within 2004.
Contact for further information: Antonio Pich.

The activities cover: phenomenology of the standard model, effective field theory (chiral perturbation theory, heavy quark effective theory, NRQCD, ...), perturbative and non-perturbative methods, CP violation.

Candidates are invited to send their applications including a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests and a list of publications, to Antonio Pich, IFIC, Universidad de Valencia, Edificio de Institutos Paterna, Apartado 22085, E-46071 Valencia, SPAIN. They should ask three scientists familiar with their work to send letters of recommendation to the same address.


Post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Durham

Applications for a postdoctoral position in elementary particle phenomenology at the University of Durham are invited. This post for up to 2 years starting in September or October 2004 is jointly funded by the European Network EURIDICE and the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology.

Deadline for applications: February 14th, 2004

EURIDICE is an EU TMR network dedicated to precision studies of the Standard Model (see http://www.lnf.infn.it/theory/rtn/) The main area of the Durham project is a global analysis of light hadron final states from D and B decays, using the latest data, with the aim of exploring the vacuum structure and hadron spectrum of QCD. This investigation will focus on evidence for hadrons both within and beyond the quark model. The post would suit a phenomenologist with either a theory or experimental background. In addition to large scale data analysis the project will require liaising with experimental groups.

The postdoctoral researcher will be part of the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (see http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/ ) and will have the opportunity to participate in any of the regular workshops run by the Institute, which attract visitors from across the world. The Institute is part of the largest particle theory group in the UK and the researcher will be encouraged to spend some time working on other projects of their own choosing. Experimental applicants will be encouraged to maintain contact with their laboratory-based colleagues. The other senior scientists in the UK EURIDICE node are Professors FE Close and RH Dalitz at Oxford.

Candidates are invited to send their applications including a curriculum vitae, a statement of past research experience and current interests, together with a list of publications to:

Professor Michael Pennington,
Physics Department,
University of Durham,
Durham DH1 3LE,
UK

They should ask 2 or 3 scientists familiar with their work to send letters of recommendation to the same address.

The post is subject to eligibility conditions described on the EU site http://www.cordis.lu/improving/networks/faq.htm#q5.

Those who have already applied for a postdoctoral post this year with the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham need NOT send their documentation and references again, but may merely e-mail an interest in being considered for this post.

The salary will be according to the UK Universities pay scale and will be between 20,000 and 24,000 pounds per annum.

Prof. Michael R. Pennington (Centre for Science Outreach Project Leader)
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology
Physics Department
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3LE
U.K. phone: (+44) (0)191 334 3668 fax: (+44) (0)191 334 3551
secretary : (+44) (0)191 334 3811


Post-Doctoral fellowship at Universite Paris-Sud
Theoretical particle physics

Within the RTN Network "EURIDICE: European Investigations on Daphne and other International Collider Experiments" (HPRN-CT2002-00311), a postdoctoral position will be available at the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay, France). The position is open for young European physicists to carry out research in areas covered by the EURIDICE proposal. This one-year position, which can be extended to a second year, should start from 1 September 2004 (or earlier if required by a successful applicant).

The Orsay node of the EURIDICE Network consists in researchers from Institut de Physique Nucleaire and Laboratoire de Physique Theorique. Current research areas of the node are the phenomenology of QCD and the standard model at low energies, chiral symmetry breaking, heavy-quark physics, effective field theories (Chiral perturbation theory, Heavy-quark and soft-collinear effective theories), and related topics. Permanent staff members are: B. Moussallam, H. Sazdjian and J. Stern (IPN); S. Descotes-Genon, A. Le Yaouanc, L. Oliver, O. Pene and J.-C. Raynal (LPT).

Candidates are invited to send their applications including a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests and a list of publications, preferably by email, to

Prof. Jan Stern
Groupe Theorie,
Institut de Physique Nucleaire (Bat. 100)
Universite Paris-Sud
91405 Orsay, France

email: stern@ipno.in2p3.fr

They should ask three scientists familiar with their work to send letters of recommendation to the same address, before 15 February 2004.

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Graduate-student fellowship at the INFN node

One graduate-student fellowship, up to 12/18 months. Preferred starting date: end of 2003/beginning of 2004.
Contact for further information: Giulia Pancheri.

Current research areas of the EURIDICE INFN node include phenomenology of K and B decays (both within and beyond the SM), chiral perturbation theory, heavy quark symmetry, hadronic cross sections (at low and high energies), QCD sum-rules, theory of (g-2), and other topics in particle physics phenomenology.

The INFN node includes Frascati National Laboratories, and team members from INFN sections of Bari, Bologna, Napoli, Perugia, Roma1, Roma3, Torino and Trieste. Candidates are invited to indicate the Institute where they would like to spend the fellowship, the preferred duration (up to a maximum of 18 months) and starting date. Applications, including a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests and a list of publications, should be sent to Giulia Pancheri, INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, P.O.Box 13, I-00044 Frascati, Italy . They should ask two scientists familiar with their work to send letters of recommendation to the same address.


RULES FOR THE APPOINTMENTS OF YOUNG TRAINEES:

Before applying please read the information for young researchers and the eligibility criteria

On general grounds, candidates are invited to send to the single nodes their applications including

  • curriculum vitae
  • description of research interests
  • list of publications
In addition, they should ask three recommendation letters from scientists familiar with their work.

For further information please contact Giulia Pancheri