People and Things Collider to Australian Senator Jacinta Collins

At CERN, Geoff Taylor of Melbourne explains the ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC proton People and things collider to Australian senator Jacinta Collins. Both Melbourne and Sydney are members of the ATLAS collaboration.

LEP2000

At its June meeting, CERN's governing body, Council, decided that CERN's flagship machine, the LEP electron-positron collider, should continue physics in the year 2000 before finally being shut down. Running at a collision energy of 189 GeV, LEP is exploring the region where, according to consistency checks on today's Standard Model of particle physics, the famous Higgs particle is most likely to be found. The Higgs, responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking, is the missing link in the Standard Model picture. Other new physics could come into view as the LEP energy is cranked higher. With upgrades of the cryoplants servicing the superconducting accelerating cavities which provide energy to the circulating beams, and with careful preparation of the cavities them­ selves, the goal /£ for LEP to attain an ultimate collision energy of 200 Fixed Target and Future Pro­ Support and Technologies (EST) GeV (100 GeV per beam), more than grammes until December 2001; Division from 1 January 1999 to 31 double the energy of the machine Lyndon Evans will continue as LHC December 1999, and Philippe Lebrun when it was commissioned in 1989. Project Leader for three years; Horst (currently Leader of the Cryogenics Wenninger was appointed Director for Accelerators Group in CERN's for Technology Transfer and LHC Division) was appointed as CERN Council Scientific Computing until May 1999 Leader of LHC Division from 1 with Hans F. Hoffmann taking over January 1999 to 31 December 2001. Also at the June meeting of CERN from June 1999 to December 2001; Council, Walter Majerotto of Austria Kurt Hubner will continue as Director was nominated Vice-President of for Accelerators for two years; Jurgen On people Council for one year from 1 July. May was appointed Technical Council decided CERN's new Director until 31 December 2001; and Prominent cosmologist Martin Rees management structure to begin in Maurice Robin will continue as of Cambridge has been awarded the January 1999 when Luciano Maiani Director of Administration for three prestigious Bower Science Prize of starts his five year mandate as years. Philadelphia's Franklin Institute 'for Director-General. Roger Cashmore Manuel Delfino (currently at his significant contributions and (currently at Oxford) was appointed Barcelona's Universidad Autonoma) research on cosmic evolution, black Director for Collider Programmes was appointed Leader of CERN's holes and galaxies'. until December 2001; Claude Détraz Information Technology (IT) Division New members of the US National (currently Director of the French from 1 January 1999 to 31 December Academy of Sciences include Roman IN2P3 institute of nuclear and particle 2001. Dietrich Gusewell was re­ Jackiw of MIT and Michael Witherell physics) was appointed Director for appointed Leader of Engineering of Santa Barbara.

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The head of the Friends and Sponsors of DESYAssociation, Erich Lohrmann (left), Hans von der Schmitt takes over DESY's Research Director at CERN from 1976 to Technical Infrastructure and Central 1978, former member of the DESY Directorate Computing department and leading DESY scientist for many years, presents the Association's annual PhD thesis prize to Alexandre Alimovich Glazov (32) from the Humboldt University in Berlin (centre) and Arnulf Quadt (29) from Oxford (right) for their measurements of the proton structure functions with respectively the H1 and ZEUS detectors. (Photo Ilka Flegel)

DESY Directorate from 1971-75 served as Director Honour for DESY's "Founding General of CERN I. On July 1, Hans von der Schmitt (49) Father" took over the direction of the DESY's "Technical Infrastructure and Central On June 18 Willibald Jentschke (86) S LAC archive Computing" (called "Z" for short) was awarded a honorary doctorate department from Ulrich Gensch, in by the Institute for High Energy The Stanford Linear Accelerator charge of it since 1995, and who is Physics in Protvino near Moscow. Center (SLAC) has been honoured now head of the DESY branch The "founding father" of DESY was for its commitment to archival institute in Zeuthen (Brandenburg). honoured "for his great contribution programmes by the California Hans von der Schmitt studied to the World Science, Humanism and Society for Archivists, the first award physics at Mainz. His main activities Progress". given by the Society. SLAC, have included the realization of the When Jentschke received a call authorized by Congress in 1961, "microtron" electron accelerator in from Hamburg University in the mid- began its archival programme in Mainz and the development and fifties, he coupled his acceptance of 1986, when hundreds of linear feet of optimization of the data acquisition a new responsibility with a demand research records were inventoried as systems for the OPAL and UA1 for a modern particle accelerator - a part of a history project. SLAC detectors at CERN as well as for the German facility where internationally- Archives officially began in 1989. JADE detector at DESY. He recognized particle physics research Since then, the archival "dungeon" habilitated (worked for a professorial could be performed and which would has been transformed into a state-of degree) at Heidelberg in 1991 on also provide students with up-to-date the-art storage area with temperature microprocessor systems in data training. The result, DESY, was and humidity controls, light and air acquisition for high energy physics founded in 1959. The scientific use of filtering, and mobile shelving. In experiments. Two years later, he synchrotron radiation, now DESY's addition, SLAC has continued and joined a software company in Bern, second research area, also goes expanded its support of staff and where he headed several major back to Jentschke's times. Willibald equipment. Two ofSLAC's oldest projects for the Swiss Telecom PTT Jentschke was Head of the DESY collections of photographs are being (now Swisscom). Directorate from 1959 to 1970, and preserved on microfilm.

36 CERN Courier, September 1998 UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITIONS IN Princeton University EXPERIMENTAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Electrical Engineering Staff Position in the Physics Department The University of Victoria invites applicants for Research Associate positions in Experimental High Energy Physics. The positions will be Princeton University invites applications from qualified based at CERN and at the University of Victoria, working on the OPAL electrical engineers for a position in the Professional experiment. The positions have terms of two years with a possible one year Technical Staff of the Physics Department. The position extension. Positions are available immediately. The University of Victoria group is currently pursuing research at LEP II will be based at CERN for work on the CMS Electro­ with the OPAL collaboration. We expect successful candidates to take an magnetic Calorimeter, and the successful candidate will active role in the analyses of OPAL data. The group already has a be expected to assume a major role in the ECAL readout. significant role in searches for new phenomena, triple gauge coupling Candidates are expected to have knowledge in the design measurements and several aspects of physics with tau leptons. The University of Victoria also is responsible for operating the OPAL and layout of full-custom mixed-mode circuits, and they online data reconstruction facility. The successful candidates would be should have experience in electronics for high energy expected to assume a major role in the operation and support of this system. physics experiments, especially calorimeter readout at Candidates should have a recent Ph.D. in particle physics and experience high-luminosity colliders. Interested candidates should with UNIX operating systems. Familiarity with the C programming language and experience with operating system installation and send curriculum vitae and the names of three references management would be an asset. Interested candidates should, prior to or letters of recommendation to: 30 October 1998, send a curriculum vitae and arrange for two letters of recommendation to be sent to: Dr. Peter Denes R. Sobie Department of Physics and Astronomy CERN/EP * University of Victoria CH-1211 Geneva 23 Box 3055 Stn CSC Switzerland Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P6 (peter, denes @ cern. ch) E-mail: [email protected] FAX: (250)721-7752 Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer In accordance with Canadian immigration regulations, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

EXPERIMENTAL MEDICAL Experimental Research PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS Associates The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is one of the University of Utah world's leading laboratories supporting research in high-energy physics. The laboratory's program includes the physics of high- energy electron-positron collisions, high-luminosity storage rings, The Physics Department at the University of Utah is seeking highly high-energy linear colliders, and particle astrophysics. qualified candidates for a tenure track faculty position at the assistant, associate, or full professor levels in experimental medical physics or A limited number of postdoctoral Research Associate positions will biophysics. Research specialties of interest include but are not limited be available in the coming year to participate in the laboratory's to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional imaging, diagnostic research program, with particular emphasis on: angiography, microcapillary perfusion imaging, NMR microscopy, • Preparing for B physics with the BABAR detector at the PEP II optical imaging, membranes, neurobiophysics, cell biophysics, motor Asymmetric B Factory, helping design and build the detector molecules, protein structure/function. We seek candidates with strong subsystems and get ready for physics commitments to both teaching and research. Successful candidates will • Participating in a Particle Astrophysics program studying time- be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in physics as dependent x-ray sources with the USA and R&D for a high-ener­ well as medical physics or biophysics, depending on the candidate's gy gamma ray astronomy experiment in space (GLAST) speciality. These positions are highly competitive and require a background of Candidates should submit their curriculum vitae, list of publications, research in high-energy physics and a recent PhD or equivalent. The term for these positions is two years and may be renewed. and at least three letters of recommendation by February 15, 1999 to: Applicants should send a letter stating their physics research interests, MEDICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEARCH COMMITTEE along with a CV, list of publications, and the names and addresses Department of Physics of three references to: Tanya Boysen, [email protected], 115 South 1400 East, Room 201 Research Division, M/S 80, SLAC, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309. University of Utah Equal opportunity through affirmative action. Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0830

University of Utah is an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Stanford Linear Employer. It encourages applications from women and minorities and Accelerator Center provides reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of SLAC applicants and employees.

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23 May marked the 70th birthday of eminent Boris Sergeevich Dzhelepov particle theorist Samoii Bilenky of Dubna's Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics. His researches into spin effects and neutrino oscillations have made a substantial contribution to particle physics.

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JINR Dubna

This summer Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Director V. Kadyshevsky and Vice-Director A. Sissakian paid a working visit to Armenia, a JINR Member State. They were received by Armenian President R. Kocharyan, with whom they discussed the development of collaboration between JINR and Armenian scientists. Special attention was given to the participation of Armenian research centres, together with JINR, in large international programmes, including those for St. Petersburg, head of the nuclear CERN's LHC. spectroscopy laboratory at the Despite economic difficulties, Khlopin Radium Institute, suddenly Association of the Friends and science in Armenia continues. On 29 died on 22 April. Sponsors of DESY PhD Thesis Prize June in Yerevan, the JINR leaders Among the founders of atomic 1997 took part in the opening of the science and industry in Russia, his International Workshop on Classical name is closely associated with On June 4 the Association of the and Quantum Integrated Systems, development of fundamental re­ Friends and Sponsors of DESY co-organized by JINR and Yerevan search on spectroscopy of atomic awarded its fourth annual PhD thesis State University. nuclei. He began investigating prize. Consisting of a certificate and At the Yerevan Physics Institute artificial radioactivity and beta decay 6000 DM, it honours the best PhD (YePI), 30 June was marked by a as early as the m id-1930s, was one theses on a DESY subject in high special scientific event for the 90th of the first to estimate the neutrino energy physics and synchrotron anniversary of the birth of mass, and predicted proton radiation research, including biology, Academician A. Alikhanian, the radioactivity. He participated in the chemistry etc., completed during the founder and first director of YePI. At Soviet uranium project under year. This year Alexandre Alimovich this Institute's accelerator, joint I.V.Kurchatov. Glazov (32) from the Humboldt experiments with JINR are planned His precise magnetic spectrometers University in Berlin and Arnulf Quadt to study deuteron photodisintegration allowed extensive investigations of (29) from Oxford receive the prize by polarized photons at 2 GeV. nuclear decays. From 1950 he for their measurements of the proton headed a major programme for structure functions with respectively studying the properties of nuclei far the H1 and ZEUS detectors - Boris Sergeevich Dzhelepov from beta stability. Decay of neutron- reflecting the fact that HERA is now deficient nuclei produced in spallation looking deeper than ever before into Boris Sergeevich Dzhelepov, reactions at the 680-MeV the structure of the proton. The renowned Russian scientist, corre­ synchrocyclotron in Dubna was Association of the Friends and sponding member of the Russian investigated at JINR (Dubna) and Sponsors of DESY is an organization Academy of Sciences, Professor of many other research centres in the

38 CERN Courier, September 1998 World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee was the main speaker at the recent meeting Internet, Web, What's Next?' at CERN on 26 June, recalling how his 'dream' of a seamless information space using global hypertext became a reality at CERN in 1989. The special requirements of world collaboration in high energy physics catalysed the sudden appearance of the World Wide Web as an internet phenomenon. 'The Web could have been invented anywhere, ' remarked Berners- Lee, 'but there was nowhere better than CERN.'

At the end of March CERN's Travelling Exhibition moved to Sweden after receiving over 31,000 visitors during five busy weeks in Helsinki. Gunnar Ôquist, General Secretary of the Swedish Research Council NFR, and Luciano Maiani, CERN's Director-General designate, officiated at the opening ceremony in Teknorama at the Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Cultural Capital of Europe '98. Next stop Luteal

At a symposium dedicated to the memory of Los Alamos theorist Richard Slansky, who died on 16 January - left to right: Geoffrey West of Los Alamos, Slansky's daughter Jill, who spoke on cancer research at Johns Hopkins, and Sydney Meshkov of Caltech.

Fermilab meetings USSR and other JINR Member Russian confrences on nuclear States. Over a hundred new radioac­ spectroscopy and nuclear structure. October 10-12, International Confer­ tive nuclei were found. He summa­ Many eminent scientists in Russia ence on Heavy Quarks at Fixed rized much new information in and other countries learnt much by Target (HQ98): Joel Butler, several monographs and handbooks. working with him. Fermilab, Chairman; Sponsored by For almost half a century Fermi National Accelerator B.S.Dzhelepov was the leading figure Laboratory, http://www.fnal.gov/ in planning and organizing annual all- projects/hq98/

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On April 3, a special symposium at Argonne marked the 65th birthday of former Argonne CERN Courier correspondent Malcolm Derrick and his contribution to the study of elementary particles. Speakers included John Dowel I (Birmingham), Gale Pewitt (Fermilab), Gordon Charlton (DOE), Don Perkins (Oxford), David Miller (Purdue), Bo Andersson (Lund), Paul Kooijman (NIKHEF), Frank Sciulli (Columbia), Ned Goldwasser (Illinois) and Matthew Derrick (California, San Francisco). The symposium began with absorbing reminiscences by John Dowell of the early days at the Birmingham 1 GeV proton synchrotron. All the areas to which Malcolm made significant contributions were covered: bubble chamber construction, neutrino physics, electron-positron collisions, and electron-proton physics at HERA. The photo shows (left to right) Gaurang Yodh October 16-18, RUN II Workshop June 14-19, SUSY 99 - 7th Interna­ (California, Irvine), Larry Price (Argonne), Malcolm, and K.C. Wali (Syracuse). (Top): Chris Quigg, Fermilab, Chair­ tional Conference on man; Sponsored by Fermi National Supersymmetries in Physics : Keith Accelerator Laboratory. Ellis, Fermilab, Chairman; Spon­ sored by Fermi National Accelerator November 19-21, RUN II Workshop Laboratory. http://fnphyx- % (SUSY): Joe Lykken, Fermilab, www. fnal.gov/conferences/susy99/ Chairman; Sponsored by Fermi susy99.html National Accelerator Laboratory. http://fnth37. fnal.gov/ Nov 19-21, 1998 "Physics at Run II" - nov_meeting.html Workshop on Supersymmetry/Higgs: Summary Meeting, M. Carena and J. Lykken, Co-Chairs; http:// fnth37.fnal.gov/nov_meeting.html CERN Courier contributions

The Editor welcomes contribu­ tions. These should be sent via electronic mail to [email protected] Plain text (ASCII) is preferred. Illustrations should follow by mail (CERN Courier, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland). Contributors, particularly conference organizers, con­ templating lengthy efforts (more than about 500 words) should contact the Editor (by A recent symposium marked the 60th birthday e-mail, or fax +41 22 782 1906) of axiomatic field theorist Arthur Jaffe of beforehand. Harvard, currently President of the American Mathematical Society.

CERN Courier, September 1998 The Physics Department of the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitât in Mainz wants to fill the tenure faculty position of a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE Professor for Experimental Physics (Besoldungsgruppe C3) The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) at its Institute for Nuclear Physics invites applications for a position of

The activities of the Institute for Nuclear Physics are centered Professor in processor architecture around the Mainz Microtron MAMI, a 100% duty cycle electron for the Department of Computer Science accelerator with an energy of 855 MeV (MAMI B), and related fields of physics. An increase of the energy to 1500 MeV Candidates should be high competent in the fields of hardware (MAMI C) is applied for and will be decided by end of 1998. architecture of processors and systems, and in one or several Physicists qualified in the fields of nuclear or particle physics areas mentioned below: reconfigurable systems, RISC are invited to apply. It is expected that the successful candidate and VLIW processors, Low power processors, micro­ will use this accelerator on the basis of the common equipment, controllers for industrial applications, architecture for budgets and personnel and that he/she promotes the fields of parallel pre-processing (intelligent sensors), specialized physics pursued at the institute. coprocessors. For additional support of the work at MAMI a special research The applicant must have pedagogical skills at all teaching project (Sonderforschungsbereich) 'Many-Body Structure of levels as well as strong aptitudes in guidance and management Strongly Interacting Particles' has been applied for at the Deut­ of research projects. He/she will be open to research sche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG. A participation in this special collaborations, especially with compaaies. A few years of research project is desired. It is expected that the successful industrial experience is an advantage. candidate takes on teaching and administrative duties to the usual Deadline for registration: 15 November 1998. Starting date extent. upon mutual agreement. Interested applicants can ask for the Applications from qualified women are particularly encouraged. applications forms by writing or faxing to: Présidence de l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, CE-Ecublens, Applications should be sent with a curriculum vitae including CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, fax nr. +41 21 693 70 research, teaching, and administrative experience and a list of 84. For further information, please consult also URL: publications to arrive not later than September 30, 1998 at the: http://www.epfl.ch, http://diwww.epfl.ch/ or http:// Dekan des FB Physik der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitàt Mainz, Postfach 3980, D-55 099 Mainz, Germany. admwww. epfl. ch/pres/profs. html

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CERN Courier, September 1998 41 Universitat Heidelberg The II. Institut fur Experimentalphysik, University of Hamburg, Group Prof. Dr. Robert Klanner has an opening for a six-year appointment for a

The Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) at Heidelberg University has an HOCHSCHULASSISTENT CI immediate opening for a

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Heidelberg is one of the most beautiful German cities, located at the river Neckar, The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on the ZEUS- in an area with a particularly mild micro climate. experiment at the HERA-collider, the development and construction of particle The successful applicant is to play a major role within a new and growing research detectors (ZEUS-microvertex detector) and the study of the radiation hardness of silicon detectors. group, and is to participate in both the scientific and educational activities of a German Lehrstuhl. Besides collaboration with industry, the scientific projects include Teaching at the University (mostly in German) of 4 hours weekly during the long term activities such as the design and implementation of a fast trigger proces­ semester is required. sor for one of the LHC experiments at CERN. Those projects include hardware and software design using the latest state of the art tools and equipment. The research The candidate should have obtained a PhD in Physics with above average marks. group has access to an in-house ASIC laboratory. The University of Hamburg aims to increase the fraction of women in its Candidates should have experience in the design and implementation and debugging scientific staff and asks qualified scientists to apply. of digital hardware including PC board level design and FPGA design. Background in ASIC design and experience with modern digital design methodology (VHDL/ Please send applications with the usual documents (CV, examination certificates Verilog synthesis) is very favorable. The candidate should be familiar with Windows and bibliography) until September 15 1998 to: NT and Unix and should have experience with C and C++. Background in the development of firmware or embedded real-time software as well as knowledge Prof. Robert Klanner about NT/Unix driver development are highly regarded. Familiarity with real-time II.Inst, fur Experimentalphysik Universitat Hamburg operating systems such as Limix, VxWorks and OS9 are useful. Luruper Chaussée 149 Disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be preferred. The Heidelberg 22761 Hamburg University encourages especially women to apply. (Tel. 0049-40-8998-2958 or 2957) Interested applicants are invited to send their application before 31.10.1998 to: (Fax. 0049-40-8998-2959)

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UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIMENTAL CONDENSED RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITIONS IN MATTER PHYSICS EXPERIMENTAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

The University of Victoria invites applicants for Research Associate University of Utah positions in Experimental High Energy Physics. The positions will be based at CERN and at the University of Victoria, working on the OPAL experiment. The positions have terms of two years with a possible one year The Physics Department at the University of Utah is seeking extension. Positions are available immediately. highly qualified candidates for an assistant professor tenure The University of Victoria group is currently pursuing research at LEP II track position in experimental condensed matter physics. with the OPAL collaboration. We expect successful candidates to take an Research specialties of particular interest include the physics of active role in the analyses of OPAL data. The group already has a nanostructures, quantum electronics, optics and acoustics. We significant role in searches for new phenomena, triple gauge coupling seek candidates with strong commitments to both teaching and measurements and several aspects of physics with tau leptons. research. Successful candidates will be expected to teach The University of Victoria also is responsible for operating the OPAL online data reconstruction facility. The successful candidates would be undergraduate and graduate courses in Physics. expected to assume a major role in the operation and support of this system. Candidates should have a recent Ph.D. in particle physics and experience Candidates should submit their curriculum vitae, list of publi­ with UNIX operating systems. Familiarity with the C programming cations, and three letters of recommendation by February 15, language and experience with operating system installation and 1999 to: management would be an asset. Interested candidates should, prior to 30 October 1998, send a curriculum vitae and arrange for two letters of CONDENSED MATTER SEARCH COMMITTEE recommendation to be sent to: Department of Physics R. Sobie Department of Physics and Astronomy 115 South 1400 East, Room 201 University of Victoria University of Utah Box 3055 Stn CSC Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0830 Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P6 University of Utah is an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity E-mail: [email protected] Employer. It encourages applications from women and FAX: (250)721-7752 minorities and provides reasonable accommodations to the In accordance with Canadian immigration regulations, priority will be known disabilities of applicants and employees. given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

42 See also page 37 CERN Courier, September 1998 Victoria UNIV.!!! FACULTY POSITIONS IN PHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

The Physics Department of the University of California, Berkeley intends to make one or more faculty appointments effective July 1, 1999, pending budget approval. Candidates from all fields of physics are encouraged to apply. Appointments at both tenure-track assistant professor and tenured levels will be considered.

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Tenure Track Faculty Position Experimental High Energy Physics $3ÈÈk POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITIONS 1 if ILt^i EXPERIMENTAL ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS Carnegie Mellon University ^^^^/ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a junior tenure track The Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego invites faculty position in the area of experimental particle applications from outstanding candidates for one to two postdoctoral research physics. The present program consists of experiment positions in experimental Elementary Particle Physics (subject to budget approval). 781 at FNAL and the L3 experiment at CERN. Future The primary purpose of these postdoctoral positions is to develop and build activity is planned at the LHC, as members of the CMS components of the CMS Data Acquisition and Higher Level Trigger system. The CMS detector and in the development of a BTEV facility at DAQ is a project which strains modern electronics and computing technology. The FNAL. Level-2 and Level-3 triggers, both performed on the same large CPU farm, will make Applicants for the position should have postdoctoral a factor of about 1000 reduction in the trigger rate and pick the events that are kept experience and demonstrated ability in both for physics analysis. UCSD is involved in experimental research in BaBar, CLE0, instrumentation and analysis. The successful candidate LEP, and the LHC. We expect to plan a program including both hardware R&D and is expected to assume a leadership role in future physics analysis with the successful candidate(s). Information on the UCSD group experiments. Applicants should be committed to and its activities can be accessed at http://hephp1.ucsd.edu/. A Ph.D. in excellence in undergraduate and graduate education. experimental Particle Physics and experience in both hardware and software The position will become available starting September development is required. Applicants should send a copy of their curriculum vitae, 1999. Applications and three letters of recommendation including a statement of physics interests, and arrange for three letters of can be sent via e-mail followed by a paper copy, to: recommendation to be sent to: High Energy Search Committee Prof. James G. Branson ATTN: Prof. A. Engler Department of Physics, 0319 Department of Physics University of California at San Diego Carnegie Mellon University 9500 Oilman Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA La Jolla, CA 92093-0319 (e-mail: [email protected]) email: [email protected] or phone: (619) 534-2978) Applications arriving until October 15, 1998 will be considered. The nominal deadline for the receipt of the application is October 20,1998, but the Carnegie Mellon is an equal opportunity / search will continue until the position(s) are filled. affirmative action employer

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(WissenschaftlicherAngestellter) at the Lehrstuhl fur Hardware Informatik, a newly Appointments can be made at either the research associate or research formed research group. Immediate activities of this group include the design of high- scientist level, depending upon qualifications. performance trigger processors for LHC experiments, which includes as the implementation of trigger algorithms in both hard- and software. Heidelberg is one of In OPAL the Indiana University Group played a leading role in the the most beautiful German cities, located at the Neckar, in an area with a particularly development of the silicon microvertex detectors and radiation monitor mild micro climate. and now have responsibilities for their continued operation. We also The successful applicant is to participate in both the scientific and educational activities developed and maintain for OPAL the offline analysis facility, SHIFT. of a German Lehrstuhl. Besides collaboration with industry, the scientific projects We are now heavily involved in searches for new particles at LEP2, par­ include long term activities such as the design and implementation of a fast trigger processor for LHC experiments at CERN. Those projects include hardware and soft­ ticularly the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles, as well as other ware design using the latest state of the art tools and equipment. The research group physics. In ATLAS we are constructing part of the Transition Radiation has access to an in-house ASIC laboratory. Tracker and play a major role in computer simulation of tracking in the Candidates should have experience with hard- and software. Experience with modern Inner Detector. We have also begun a new effort on muon collider digital design methodology (VHDL, Verilog synthesis) is very favorable. The candidate research and development. should be familiar with common operating systems such as Windows NT and Unix and should have experience with C and C++. Applicants should have experience in physics analysis and tracking The position requires a Ph.D and includes a substantial benefits package. The detectors. Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree. Applications, including appointment will be initially for two years with a possible extension up to 5 years. vitae, list of publications, and three reference letters, should be sent to: Provided superior performance the position offers the possibility to confer qualification as a university lecturer (Habilitation). Disabled applicants with equal qualifications High Energy Physics Secretary will be preferred. The Heidelberg University encourages especially women to apply. Department of Physics Interested applicants are invited to send their application before 31.10.1998 to: Indiana University Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg Bloomington, IN 47405 Institute for High Energy Physics Ref: VOLI_2A by September 30,1998. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/ Schrôderstrasse 90 - D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Affirmative Action Employer. For additional information, please contact Prof. Volker Lindenstruth. e-mail: [email protected], phone: + 62 21 / 54 - 43 03.

Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) Miinchen, Germany ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE We invite applications from recent Ph.D. graduates for FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE a post-doctoral position in L'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne met au concours un Experimental High Energy Physics poste de Professeur/e en architecture de processeurs The initial appointment is made for two years with the possibility of renewal for up to a total period of five years. au Département d'informatique The position is available now. Le/la candidat/e possédera des compétences du plus haut niveau dans le domaine de l'architecture matérielle des processeurs et Our group has been engaged in the design and construction of systèmes informatiques, ainsi que dans un ou plusieurs des the HI-detector at HERA and is actively participating in the domaines suivants: systèmes reconfigurables, processeurs RISC data taking and the analysis of the data with focus on testing et VLIW, processeurs à faible consommation, micro­ QCD at low and high QA2. We are also engaged in the contrôleurs pour applications industrielles et horlogères, upgrading of the detector (liquid argon calorimeter and trigger, architecture de pré-traitements parallèles (capteurs intelli­ second level neural network trigger). gents), coprocesseurs spécialisés. We expect that the person appointed will participate in Ce poste demande des aptitudes et un goût pour la formation des exploiting the physics potential of the HI detector as well as ingénieurs à tous les niveaux, ainsi que de solides capacités dans in the maintenance, application and the upgrade program of la conduite et la gestion de projets. Le/la titulaire de ce poste the neural network trigger. lancera de nombreuses collaborations de recherche, en particulier avec des entreprises. Une expérience de quelques années dans Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and arrange to une entreprise serait un avantage. have three letters of recommendations sent directly via nor­ Délai d'inscription: 15 novembre 1998. Entrée en fonction: à mal or electronic mail and as soon as possible to: convenir. Les candidatures féminines sont vivement sollicitées. Les personnes intéressées voudront bien demander, par écrit, le Prof. G. Buschhorn dossier auprès de: Présidence de l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale Max-Planck-Institut ftir Physik de Lausanne, CE-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, ou (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) par telefax au n° +41 21 693 70 84. Des informations Fôhringer Ring 6 supplémentaires peuvent être obtenues sur le web: D-80805 Miinchen http://www.epfl.ch, http://diwww.epfl.ch/or (email: [email protected]) http://admwww. epfl. ch/pres/profs. html

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