Openings at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences
The State of Tennessee is investing in 20 exceptionally accomplished researchers who will have joint appointments as tenured professors at the University of Tennessee (UT) and distinguished research staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This Governor’s Chair (GC) program seeks to catalyze the development of leading edge research under the auspices of four joint institutes between UT and ORNL: Biological Sciences, Computational Sciences, Neutron Sciences, and Advanced Materials Sciences. The GC appointments include an ongoing discretionary research fund equal to twelve months salary.
The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS)
JICS will support both fundamental and applied research and teaching programs in computational sciences, computational mathematics, computer science, high performance computing, storage and networking, and cyber security.
UT and ORNL have strong research efforts in these areas. The research environment favors cross-disciplinary, leading-edge efforts that leverage special facilities in the physical and computational sciences. World-class research facilities include the DOE Leadership Computing Facility (LCF). LCF is planning the acquisition and deployment of a 250TF high-performance computing (HPC) system by 2007 and a 1000TF (PF) system by 2008. It is expected that JICS will focus on application and system software essential to optimal sustained performance at the petascale to enable a range of computationally challenging science and engineering applications.
The UT-ORNL environment nurtures a rich interdisciplinary community of researchers with common interests and collaborative projects. The UT-ORNL research enterprise has more than $2 billion in investments in some of the world’s most advanced research facilities.
There are immediate openings for Governor’s Chairs in the following areas:
- Science and engineering applications – Applications are sought from candidates interested in:
- Computational science at the petascale in the physical, biological, and environmental sciences
- Computer science applications – Applications are sought from candidates interested in developing:
- Algorithms, methods, and libraries
- Component-based, petascale program development and tools
- Systems software that scale to hundreds-of-thousands of processors
- Scalable systems for moving, storing, and analyzing data
Successful candidates will have an exceptional record of scientific productivity and accomplishment, as manifested, for example, in high-impact publications, scientific awards, or Fellow status in scientific and engineering societies. Successful candidates will also have a demonstrated record of leading cross-disciplinary teams of researchers and of developing substantial externally-funded research programs.
APPLICATIONS:
Applicants should submit a letter of interest and a curriculum vita to:
Norma Manning, JICS-Governor’s Chair Search Committee, Computing and Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6163; JICSGovernorChair06-07@jics.utk.edu.
Screening of applications will commence on July 1, 2006, and will continue until the positions are filled.
The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. UT welcomes and honors people of all races, creeds, cultures, and sexual orientations and values intellectual curiosity, pursuit of knowledge, and academic freedom and integrity. ORNL, a multiprogram research facility managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy, is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a diverse work force.