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Astrophysics Job Rumour Mill 2006-2007
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Postdoc or term positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| AMNH | John Wise, Greg Stinson nominated; Offered to: John Wise (declined) |
| U Amsterdam (w/Wijers) | Atish Kamble |
| ANU (w/ Freeman) | Offered to Thomas Bensby (declined) |
| Arcetri (HI surveys) | Offer made: Barbara Catinella (declined) |
| Arizona (w/ Burrows) | Offer made: Jon McKinney (declined); rejection notices emailed |
| Arizona (w/ Eisenstein) | Offer made: Ethan Siegel |
| ASTRON (Dwingeloo) | 16 applications - shortlist - Ferdman, Griessmeier, Serra, Orru & Rol. Offers: Serra (accepted), Ferdman (declined), Griessmeier (accepted) |
| Berkeley (BCCP) | Offered to: Stefano Profumo (declined), Anze Slosar, Oliver Zahn; Short list: Niayesh Afshordi, Ghazal Geshnizjani |
| Berkeley (LBL/SNAP/Physics) | Jaiyul Yoo (declined), Reiko Nakajima |
| Berkeley (LBNL, Chamberlain) | Alexie Leauthaud |
| Berkeley (Miller) | rejection notices sent 12/8. Offered to: Alicia Soderberg (declined), Maryam Modjaz. |
| Berkeley (SSL/LBL SNAP) | Offered to James Jee (declined) |
| Berkeley (SSL, Townes Fellowship) | Andrew Howard |
| Berkeley (TAC) | offers have been made, including Chi-kwan Chan |
| Berkeley (w/ Arons) | Andrey Timokhin |
| Berkeley (w/ Backer) | Joeri van Leeuwen |
| Berkeley (w/ Bloom & Filippenko) | Dovi Poznanski |
| Berkeley (w/ Bower) | Steve Croft |
| Berkeley (w/ McKee/Klein) | Offered to: John Wise (declined), J. Oishi |
| Birmingham (w/Smith) | Shortlist made - 6 people. Offer made and accepted. |
| Bonn (DUEL) | Ismael Tereno |
| Bonn (w/Reiprich) | Offers for both postdoc positions have been accepted. |
| Bonn (w/Schneider) | Sherry Suyu |
| Bucknell (1-yr visiting prof.) | Kevin Marshall |
| Caltech | Annika Peter |
| Caltech (CARMA) | Offered to: Dominik Riechers (declined), Vernesa Smolcic |
| Cambridge | Shortlist (theory) includes: Gabriella De Lucia, Sebastiano Cantalupo |
| Cambridge (Galaxy Evolution) | Shortlist includes: Kai Noeske (withdrew), offered to: Matthew Walker |
| Cambridge (DAMTP) | Offered to: Amanda Weltman |
| Cambridge (SKADS) | Joern Geisbuesch, Dominic Ford |
| Cardiff | Shortlist includes: Mairi Brookes (withdrew), Emma Rigby |
| Carnegie Fellowship | Short list made, including Maryam Modjaz, Offered to: Masami Ouchi |
| Carnegie DTM | Catherine Slesnick |
| Carnegie-Princeton Fellowship | Alicia Soderberg |
| Case Western Reserve (Physics) | Pascal M Vaudrevange and Francesc Ferrer (w/ Starkman) |
| Case Western Reserve (Astronomy) | Santiago Patiri |
| Chandra Fellowships | Offered to: Alicia Soderberg (declined), John Fregeau (Northwestern/KITP), David Kaplan (declined), Jon McKinney (Stanford), Ian Parrish(Berkeley), Jeremy Schnittman (Johns Hopkins), Debora Sijacki (declined), . Rejections sent by US mail. |
| Chateaubriand Fellowship | Susan Kassin (IAP, Paris) |
| University of Chicago (KICP) | Amol Upadhye, Offered to: Ewald Puchwein (declined), Oliver Zahn (declined) |
| CITA | Offers made: Jon McKinney (5yr, declined), Neil Barnaby, Avery Broderick (5yr), Kendrick Smith, Oliver Zahn (declined), John Wise (declined), Mike Boylan-Kolchin (declined), Ian Dobbs-Dixon, Jaiyul Yoo |
| University of Colorado (Research/Teaching Fellowship) | Seth Hornstein (starting January 2007) |
| University of Colorado (COS postdoctoral positions) | Eric Burgh, Kevin France |
| Columbia | Eugene Lim |
| Columbia Science Fellow | |
| Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute | Offered to Yizhong Fan |
| Davis LSST Fellowship | Offered to: Brian Gerke (declined 1/18), others on shortlist: Chien Peng, James Jee, Dan Coe, Sam Schmidt. Offer made: James Jee,Sam Schmidt |
| Davis (w/Wittman) | |
| Drexel (w/ Richards) | Offer made: Jeff Van Duyne (declined), Rajesh Deo |
| DUEL Fellowships (lensing) | Barnaby Rowe (IAP) |
| Durham | Bret Lehmer, Jim Geach |
| Edinburgh | Alexia Schulz,Fergus Simpson |
| ESO Fellowships (Chile) | Offers made: Thomas Bensby, Andreas Seifahrt (declined) |
| ESO Fellowships (Garching) | Some people have been interviewed, including Maryam Modjaz, Alexis Brandeker (withdrew). Offers made: Maryam Modjaz (declined), Wouter Vlemmings (declined), Mariska Kriek (declined), Nadine Neumayer, Heidi Korhonen, Giuseppina Battaglia, Michaela Doellinger. All positions filled. |
| FCAD Fellowship | short list and “extended short list” made; Offer made: Hugh Crowl |
| Fermilab (Particle Astrophysics Center) | Some rejection letters sent. |
| Fermilab | Offered to: Hee-Jong Seo (accepted), Hy Trac (declined) |
| FIT (w/ Perlman) | short list made, includes: Alex Markowitz (withdrew), Konrad Tristram, Alina Streblyanska. Offers made to Tristram (declined), Streblyanska (declined). Will ask for more applications in 2007 |
| Gemini (AO Astronomer) | Short list includes: Angelle Tanner |
| Gemini (Galaxy Cluster project) | Short list includes: B. Catinella (withdrew). Offer made: Boris Häußler (declined 2/5) |
| Gemini science fellows | interview starting to be scheduled, including Kelle Cruz (withdrew), Michael Cushing (withdrew), Peter Yoachim, Richard McDermid, offer made to Igor Chilingarian (Gemini-South). Silas Laycock (Gemini-North) |
| Geneva (w/ Audard) | Andres Carmona |
| Georgia State (w/ Gies) | offer made and accepted |
| Göttingen (w/ Ansgar Reiners) | Andreas Seifahrt |
| Göttingen | Jacob Bean |
| Harvard (Exoplanet Detection w/ Charbonneau) | Offered to: Joshua Pepper (declined), Andrew Howard (declined), Jonathan Irwin |
| Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (Spitzer Gould Belt Legacy w/ Allen) | Offered to: Dawn Peterson |
| Harvard Origins of Life Fellowship | Rejection emails sent |
| Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Fellowship | rejection notices sent 12/15. Offered to: Alicia Soderberg (declined) Desika Narayanan, Sean Andrews (deferred) |
| Harvard-Smithsonian Clay Fellowship | rejection notices sent 12/15. Short list: Jon McKinney, Avery Broderick, Scott Sheppard. Offer made: Andres Jordan, Daniel Kasen, Jon McKinney (declined 3/20) |
| Harvard-Smithsonian Firestone Fellowship | |
| Harvard-Smithsonian ITC Fellowship | Offered to: Chi-kwan Chan, Jonathan Pritchard (on Hubble), Kendrick Smith (declined), Hy Trac, Mark Dijkstra |
| Harvard-Smithsonian Keck Fellowship | Offered to: Stijn Wuyts, Sean Moran (declined), Yuexing Li, Desika Narayanan, Ivo Labbe (declined), Kai Noeske, Mark Brodwin (deferred), rejection emails sent |
| Harvard-Smithsonian Menzel Fellowship | Jay Strader (deferred), Jaiyul Yoo |
| Harvard, joint Daly-Clay fellowship (CfA & EPS) | Matija Cuk |
| Hawaii/IfA (Parrent Fellowship) | Offered to: Michael Wood-Vasey (declined), Adam Bolton |
| Hawaii/IfA PS1 Science Consortium (Pan-STARRS) | Offer made and accepted. |
| Heidelberg/ARI (w/ Grebel) | short list made, including Ivan Minchev |
| HIA Plaskett Fellowship | Short list made, including Michael Cooper (withdrew). Offered to: Chien Peng |
| HIA (GPI Postdoc) | Short list made, including Marshall Perrin. Offered to Christian Marois |
| HIA (Gemini Postdoc) | Short list: Brian Stalder. Offered to: Andre Nicolas Chene |
| U Hong Kong (Research Assistant Professor [non-tenure track]) | Offer made and accepted. Jun-ichi Nakashima |
| Hubble Fellowships | Jay Strader (CfA/Harvard), Alicia Soderberg (Princeton), Marusa Bradac (UC Santa Barbara), Ivo Labbe (OCIW), Jonathan Pritchard (CfA/Harvard), Judd Bowman (Caltech), Beth Biller (Hawaii), Mercedes Lopez-Morales (CIW-DTM), Jes Jorgensen (declined), Sean Andrews (CfA/SAO), Daniel Kasen (UC Santa Cruz), David Kaplan (MIT), Dominik Riechers (Caltech). All Fellowships awarded. |
| IAC Fellowships (Tenerife) | Shortlist: Andres Asensio-Ramos, Antonio Sollima, Arjan Bik(declined), Olena Khomenko, David Russell |
| IAS | Offered to: Martin Pessah, Alexia Schulz, Kevin Heng, Douglas Rudd, Jon McKinney (5yr, declined 3/20) |
| IAP (Paris) | Shortlist: Sourish Dutta |
| Illinois (w/ Mohr) | Offer made and accepted. |
| INAF, Padova (w/Poggianti) | |
| Indiana (w/ van Zee) | Shortlist made |
| UC Irvine (w/ Barth) | Short list includes: Misty Bentz, Ryan Houghton. Offered to: Misty Bentz |
| UC Irvine (w/ Buote) | Search canceled |
| UC Irvine (w/ Smecker-Hane) | phone interviews scheduled. Offered to: Brian Marsteller |
| Jansky Fellowships | More rejection letters sent out 1/11. Offered to: Alicia Soderberg, Abigail Hedden (declined), James Miller-Jones, Sean Andrews (declined), Melissa Enoch (declined), Judd Bowman, Dominik Riechers (declined) |
| JPL (strong lensing) | Jacqueline Chen, Dan Coe, James Jee, Alexia Schulz, Sherry Suyu. Offer made: Dan Coe |
| JPL (weak lensing) | Offered to: Barnaby Rowe (declined), James Jee (declined), Ali Vanderveld |
| JPL (w/ Goldsmith) | Nicholas Chapman |
| Johns Hopkins (SINGG/SUNGG) | Short list made: Karen Knierman. Offer made: Barbara Catinella (declined), Karen Knierman (declined), Offered and accepted |
| Johns Hopkins (GALEX w/ Heckman) | Sean Moran |
| Johns Hopkins (PanSTARRS) | Offered to: Francis O’Donovan, Tommy Grav |
| JSPS Superlative Postdoc Fellowships (SPD) | Short list made, Three candidates interviewed at JSPS, Offer made: Masami Ouchi |
| Keele (w/ Herwig) | Offer made: Marco Pignatari |
| Korea Institute for Advanced Study (w/Park) | Offered to: Young-Rae Kim |
| UNLV (w/ Nagamine) | Short list made, including Greg Stinson, Britton Smith, Daisuke Kawata, Offered to: Jun-Hwan Choi |
| Lausanne (EPFL, w/ Jablonka) | Short list made: Massimo Dotti |
| Leiden (DUEL) | Hendrik Hildebrandt |
| Leiden KIDS Fellowship | Tim Schrabback |
| Leiden NOVA Fellowship | Ryan Quadri |
| Leiden (w/Levin) | Short list made: Massimo Dotti. Offered to: Anders Johansen, Richard Alexander |
| Leiden (w/Schaye) | Craig Booth |
| Liverpool John Moores Univ (Extragalactic) | Three offers made, including Habib Khosroshahi (accepted), John Stott (accepted) |
| LLNL Lawrence Fellowship | Short list made, including Daniel Kasen, Marshall Perrin, Stefano Profumo; Offer made to Stefano Profumo |
| Los Alamos (JR Oppenheimer Fellowship) | Offered to: Stefano Profumo, Chris Belczynski |
| Magellan Fellowships | Offered to: David Floyd, Ricardo Covarrubias |
| UMaryland (CARMA) | Laura Hainline |
| UMASS Amherst, Theory | Offered to: Amjad Ashoorioon, Jeremy Bailin (declined) |
| UMass Amherst (w/Calzetti) | Short list made. |
| McGill (CITA Natl Fellowship) | Ian Dobbs-Dixon |
| McMaster (w/ Couchman) | Offers made: Jeremy Bailin, Greg Stinson |
| Michelson Fellowships | Offered to: Beth Biller (declined), Michael Fitzgerald (LLNL), Hannah Jang-Condell, Daniel Fabrycky, Andrea Isella |
| Michigan (w/ Volonteri/Ruszkowski) | Offered to: John Wise (declined), Massimo Dotti |
| MIT Pappalardo Fellowships | Finalist interviews: Ryan Hickox, Nitya Kallivayalil, Paola Rebusco, Kendrick Smith, Oliver Zahn, and 12 other physicists. Offered to: Nitya Kallivayalil, Oliver Zahn (accepted, declined), Paola Rebusco |
| MIT (w/ Bautz) | Shortlist: Mark Brodwin, Adam Muzzin, Karl Andersson |
| MIT (w/ Burgasser) | Search cancelled |
| Missouri (w/ Li) | Offered to: Dale Jackson (declined) |
| MPE Garching | Offer made to: Andrea Merloni, Tesla Jeltema (declined), Kai Noeske |
| MPA Garching | Offers made: Mike Boylan-Kolchin,Gabriella De Lucia (extension), Klaus Dolag (extension), Carlos Hernandez, Jian Hu, Martin Obergaulinger, Ewald Puchwein, Simone Weinmann, Barbara Catinella (w/ Kauffmann), Daniel Christlein (w/Kauffmann), Stefano Zibetti (w/Kauffmann; declined), Barnaby Rowe (declined); all posts filled (2/14) |
| MPA/MPI-P joint Fellowship | Offer made to Stefano Profumo |
| MPA/SHAO joint positions | Four offers made including Jesus Zavala |
| MPIA Heidelberg | Offer made to Joe Carson. Rejection letters sent. |
| MPIA Heidelberg (w/ Meisenheimer) | Kim Nilsson |
| MPIA Heidelberg (w/ Rix, Walter) | Stefano Zibetti |
| NASA NPP Fellowship | Offered to: John Wise (Goddard), Jeremy Schnittman (Goddard; declined), Avi Mandell (Goddard), Adrienne Juett (Goddard), Joshua Pepper (Ames/Kepler; declined), Laura Brenneman (Goddard), Teddy Cheung (Goddard), Francis O’Donovan (Goddard), Sean McWilliams (Goddard) |
| NOAO (w/ Dickinson) | Short list made, including Boris Häußler, Kai Noeske. Offered to: Kai Noeske |
| NOAO (w/ Januzzi/Dey/Dickinson) | Short list made, including Boris Häußler, Michael Cooper, Sam Schmidt, Mark Brodwin, Brian Stalder. Offered to: Michael Cooper (declined, 1/24) Offered to: Mark Brodwin |
| Northwestern (Lindheimer Fellow) | Short list made, including Avery Broderick, Loren Hoffman, Vincent Fish, Daniel Fabrycky, Tesla Jeltema. Offer made to: Avery Broderick (declined); Loren Hoffman |
| Northwestern (Theoretical Astrophysics Postdocs) | Ilya Mandel |
| Nottingham | Two posts: Offered to: Chiaki Hikage; Michael Cooper (declined, 1/19), Boris Häußler |
| Nottingham (Anne McLaren Fellowship) | Offer made to Olivia Johnson |
| NRAO (w/Owen, Carilli) | Offered and accepted. Rejections sent 2/28. |
| NYU | Offered to: Ignacy Sawicki (James Arthur), Weiqun Zhang (5-yr Res. Sci.), Jon McKinney (5-yr James Arthur declined 3/1), Alex Vikman |
| NSF Fellowships | some rejection letters sent 1/23, 2/15. Offers made including Rachel Kuzio de Naray (UC Irvine), John Johnson (Hawaii), Joseph Hennawi (Berkeley), Marshall Perrin (UCLA), Gaspar Bakos (CfA), Scott Sheppard, Beth Biller (declined), Maryam Modjaz (declined), Abigail Hedden (declined), Karen Knierman (ASU), Eric Hallman(Colorado) |
| Obs. Côte d’Azur (Poincare) | One offer made and accepted. |
| Ohio State CCAPP Fellowships | Tesla Jeltema (accepted, then declined for job at Santa Cruz), Stefano Profumo (accepted, then declined for faculty job at Santa Cruz), and Stelios Kazantzidis |
| Ohio State (w/ Kochanek) | Szymon Kozlowski |
| Ohio State (w/ Mathur) | Matthew Pieri |
| Oslo (Inst. Theor. Astrophysics) | Offered to: Ethan Siegel (declined) |
| Oxford | Short list includes: B. Catinella (withdrew), Kai Noeske (withdrew), Joseph Zuntz, Brian Stalder, Renbin Yan, Claudia Scarlata. Offer made and accepted. Rejection letters sent (2/19). Susan Kassin (arriving Jan. 08) |
| Oxford Glasstone Fellowships | Offered to: Hiranya Peiris (declined) |
| Oxford Henry Skynner Fellow | Kevin Schawinski |
| Pan-STARRS PS1 Science Consortium Postdoctoral Researcher (3 positions) - See Hawaii | |
| Penn State (w/ Schneider) | offer made and accepted |
| Penn State (ICStars) | |
| Perimeter Institute | Niayesh Afshordi, Ghazal Geshnizjani |
| Planck | Kendrick Smith |
| Potsdam (AIP) | Offered to: Luz Marina Cairos, Andrea Cattaneo (extension), Jaime Forero , Natasha Maddox, Pierre Ocvirk, Lionel Veltz, Mary Williams |
| PPARC Aurora Fellowships | |
| PPARC/STFC Fellowships | Short list includes: Martin Pessah, Hiranya Peiris(AF), Kendrick Smith, Maria-Rosa Cioni(AF), Richard Massey(AF), Caroline van Breukelen, Mark Sullivan(AF), Meghan Gray (AF), Fergus Simpson (Oxford), Simon Vaughan (AF) Scott Gregory. Offers made to: Deborah Sijacki (Cambridge IoA), Kendrick Smith (Cambridge IoA), Caroline van Breukelen (UCL), Zoe Leinhardt (DAMTP, Cambridge - awarded last year deferred until March ‘07), Richard Massey (AF; Edinburgh), Hiranya Peiris (AF/Halliday; IoA Cambridge), Meghan Gray (AF; Nottingham), Mark Sullivan (AF; Oxford), Duncan Farrah (AF; Sussex). All positions filled. |
| Princeton (Council on S&T Fellowship) | Offer made: Jon McKinney (declined 3/20) |
| Princeton Astro | (w/ Gunn & Lupton): Michael Cooper (declined, 1/22), (w/ Ostriker): Markus Wetzstein |
| Princeton Astro (Russell Fellowship) | Offer made: Masami Ouchi (declined 1/24), John Johnson (declined 1/29), Mariska Kriek, Michael McElwain |
| Princeton Astro (Spitzer Fellowship) | One 3yr offer accepted. Offer made: Jon McKinney (declined 3/20) |
| Princeton Physics | |
| PUC | Offered to: Claudia Greco |
| RAS Sir Norman Lockyer Fellowship | Shortlist includes: |
| Royal Society | Short list includes: Maria-Rosa Cioni, Catherine Heymans. Offers made including: Mark Sullivan, Jonathan Gair |
| Rutgers (w/ Gawiser) | Nick Bond |
| Saclay - SAp (w/ Alexandre Refregier) | Shortlist made, Offer made to Anais Rassat (UCL) |
| Saint Mary’s ICA (ACEnet) | Offer made: Jeremy Bailin (declined), Alexei Poludnenko |
| Santa Barbara (KITP) | Offer made: Martin Pessah, Niayesh Afshordi (declined), Jonathan Pritchard (declined); rejection notices emailed (3/27) |
| Santa Barbara (TABASGO) | Offered to: Dominik Riechers (declined), Eli Rykoff, Mariska Kriek (declined) |
| Santa Cruz (CfAO) | Offered to: Elizabeth McGrath |
| Santa Cruz (w/Brodie) | Aaron Romanowsky |
| Santa Cruz (Morrison Fellowship) | Tesla Jeltema |
| SAO (ChaMP) | Anca Constantin |
| SAO (Cosmos) | Francesca Civano |
| SMA Fellowships (CfA) | Offered to: Melissa Enoch (declined 1/24), Dominik Riechers, Abigail Hedden |
| Spitzer Fellowships | some rejection letters sent 1-19. Offered to: Michael Cooper (Arizona), Ivo Labbe (declined), Melissa Enoch (Berkeley), Kelle Cruz (Caltech), Alexandra Pope (NOAO), Lucas Cieza (Hawaii) |
| SSC (w/ Armus) | Andreaa Petric, second offer made |
| SSC (w/ Chary) | Eric Murphy |
| SSC (w/ Helou) | |
| SSC (w/ Rho, Reach) | Morten Andersen |
| SSC (w/ Teplitz) | Carrie Bridge |
| SSC (w/ Lin Yan) | Short list includes: Brian Stalder, Misty Bentz. Offered to: Misty Bentz, Michel Zamowski |
| STScI Giacconi Fellowship | Offer made: Mariska Kriek (declined), Tesla Jeltema, Asaf Pe’er, Rejection letters sent |
| STScI (w/ Ferguson) | |
| STScI (w/ Sembach) | Position made inactive |
| STScI (w/ Sparks, Chiaberge) | |
| STScI (w/ van der Marel) | Aaron Grocholski |
| Stanford GLAST | short list includes: Eli Rykoff |
| Stanford/SLAC KIPAC Fellowships | Offered to: Brian Gerke,Michael Busha, Doug Rudd, Jon McKinney (5yr) |
| Stanford (w/ Allen) | Offered to: Anja von der Linden |
| Stanford Linear Accelerator Center GLAST | Simona Murgia (Stanford) |
| Swarthmore College (2yr visiting prof) | Offer made and accepted |
| Swedish Space Council Fellowship (Stockholm) | Alexis Brandeker |
| Swinburne University (WiggleZ) | Offered to: Ethan Siegel (declined) |
| Swinburne University (Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing) | Short list made, includes Paolo Serra, Sam Schmidt,offer made and accepted |
| SwRI (w/ Retherford) | Tommy Greathouse |
| Wenner-Gren Fellowship, Stockholm University | Offered to Amjad Ashoorioon (declined) |
| U Tasmania (5yr/Lecturer) | Andrew Cole |
| U Texas-Austin (Smith Fellowship) | Short List includes: Karen Knierman, Daniel Smith; Offer made: Peter Yoachim |
| Toronto (term-limited assistant professor) | Brendan Crill |
| Toronto (w/ Jayawardhana) | Two offers made and accepted: David Lafreniere, Vincent Geers |
| Toronto (w/Artymowicz) | Shortlist Ian Dobbs-Dixon, Ramon Brasser, Markward Britsch, Jeff Oishi, Owen Matthews; Offers made: Jeff Oishi (declined), Ramon Brasser (accepted) |
| Toronto (w/Yee) | Offered to: Renbin Yan |
| UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship | Offers made, including John Johnson |
| Utrecht (w/Larsen) | Elizabeth Wehner |
| U Valparaíso | Marcelo Mora |
| Vanderbilt | Offered to: Sourish Dutta |
| Vanderbilt (LSI Postdoc) | Offered to: Erika Grundstrom |
| Vanderbilt (VIDA Postdoc) | Offered to: Joshua Pepper (5-yr) |
| U Virginia (w/ Sarazin) | Craig Heinke (1 yr) |
| Waterloo (CITA Natl Fellowship) | Offered to: Simone Weinmann, declined. Search closed. |
| Waterloo (w/ Balogh) | Offer made and accepted. |
| Waterloo (w/ McNamara) | Offered to: Elena Belsole |
| U Wisconsin-Milwaukee | some offers made 1/23; offered to B. Hitsky (declined). |
| U Western Ontario (w/ Houde) | Offer made and accepted. |
| Yale (w/ Bailyn, SMARTS) | Informal interviews held at AAS; no short list yet; |
| Yale (w/ van Dokkum) | Adam Muzzin |
| Yale (w/ Urry) | short list made |
| Zurich, Inst. Theor. Physics | Shortlist: Gabriella De Lucia, Vincent Desjacques, Ben Metcalfe, Ewald Puchwein, Debora Sijacki, Greg Stinson, Offers made to Aaron Boley(with Lake), Kendrick Smith (with Seljak) declined, Robert Smith, Vincent Desjacques, Ilian Iliev |
| Zurich, Inst. Theor. Physics (w/ Tran) | Amelie Saintonge |
| Zurich, ETH Zwicky Fellowship | Short list includes: Tesla Jeltema (withdrew), Martin Pessah, Gabriella De Lucia, Adam Muzzin, Offers made to: Avery Broderick (declined), Gabriella De Lucia (declined), Debora Sijacki (declined) |
| Zurich, ETH zCOSMOS postdocs | Offered to: Boris Häußler (declined 2/5), Monique Aller, Christian Maier (zCOSMOS data manager),John Silverman |
Tenure or Tenure Track Faculty/Permanent positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| U Alberta | Short list includes Adrienne Juett, Mark Brodwin, Craig Heinke, JD Smith - campus visits underway; offer made to Craig Heinke (delayed 1 yr) |
| Anglo-Australian Observatory (Head of Astronomy) | Andrew Bunker |
| Arizona LPL (solar physics) | Sam Krucker (declined), Tamara Rogers |
| Arizona LPL (planetary surfaces) | Shane Byrne |
| Arizona State (SESE) | Evan Scannapieco, Frank Timmes, and Patrick Young |
| U Arkansas (Little Rock) | Phone interviews scheduled. Final short list made. Campus interviews scheduled. Offered to Marc Seigar |
| ASIAA | Three new faculty appointments made:Lung-Yih Chiang, Shige Takakuwa, Michihiro Takami |
| ASTRON (Dwingeloo) | Director General: offer made to and accepted by Mike Garrett |
| ASTRON (Dwingeloo) | Director Radio Observatory - WSRT & LOFAR: short-list: Rene Vermeulen and Rogier Windhorst, Vermeulen (accepted) |
| ASTRON (Dwingeloo) | Snr. Support Scientist: shortlist: Y. Pilhstrom and Andrei Lobanov |
| Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (Head of Galactic Archaeology Group) | Norbert Christlieb |
| Augusta State University | Offer made: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (declined) |
| Australian National University | shortlist made, including Helmut Jerjen, Lisa Kewley, Norbert Christlieb; offer to: Lisa Kewley (declined) Helmut Jerjen |
| Australian National University (RSAA) | Director: Harvey Butcher |
| Ball State | Phone interview candidates selected; short list includes: Daniel McIntosh. Offer made: Anca Constantin (declined). |
| Berea College (Physics) | Short list: Dejan Stojkovic (withdrawn), Christopher Aubin, John Hopkinson, Offered to Martin Villette (accepted) |
| Berkeley-Physics (University of California) | Short list: Hiranya Peiris, Miguel Morales, Vuk Mandic; no offer made |
| Berkeley-CIPS (University of California) | Some interviews completed. Short list includes Jonathan Fortney (withdrew), Amaya Moro-Martin, Burkhard Militzer, Josh Eisner; offer made to a geologist, offer to Militzer |
| U Bonn (W3) | Eva Grebel (declined), Markus Kissler-Patig (declined), search cancelled |
| U Bonn (W2) | Short list: Klaus Dolag, Ilian Iliev, Alexander Knebe, Thorsten Naab, Cristiano Porciani, Jochen Weller. Offered to Cristiano Porciani |
| U Bristol | Short list: Ilian Iliev, Marianne Vestergaard, 4 others. Offers made, declined. |
| U Bristol (Astrophysics) | Short list includes: Russell Smith, Mike Revnivtsev. Offers (3 made 2 accepted): Graham Smith (declined), Andrew Young |
| U. British Columbia (planetary science) | Short list made, candidates invited: Jonathan Aurnou, Matija Cuk, David O’Brien |
| Brown | Short list: Edward Baltz, Dan Hooper, Dragan Huterer, Daniel Kasen, Benton Metcalf, Hiranya Peiris (withdrawn), two others, offer made to Dragan Huterer (declined), Ted Baltz (declined) |
| Bryn Mawr (physics) | Short list made, campus visits will be held by mid-February; offer made |
| U Buffalo | Short list: Niayesh Afshordi, Rouzbeh Allahverdi, offered to Dejan Stojkovic (accepted), Serge Winitzki |
| Caltech | Chris Hirata |
| Cal State Poly Pomona (Physics) | Interview candidates selected, including Joe Carson, Joseph Barranco (+2 others in other fields). Offered to Barranco (declined). Offered to person in other field (accepted) |
| Cal State Stanislaus (Physics) | Offered to: Christopher De Vries |
| Cambridge (Jacksonian Professorship) | |
| University of Cape Town | (NRF Research Chair) Erwin de Blok |
| U Central Lancashire | Ilian Iliev, Klaus Dolag, Victor Debattista, Cristina Popescu, Andrea Cattaneo; offers made to Victor Debattista and Cristina Popescu, and both accepted |
| Cardiff University (Observational Cosmology) | Enzo Pascale |
| Cardiff University (Chair Theoretical Physics) | offer made to Pavel Kroupa, declined |
| Cardiff University (Theoretical Astrophysics) | short list made, including Pavel Kroupa. Offered to: Peter Coles |
| Carnegie Observatory (engineer/scientist at Magellan) | |
| Carnegie (DTM) | Short list includes Fred Ciesla, Daniel Apai, Hector Arce, Josh Eisner, Jonathan Fortney (withdrew), Scott Sheppard. |
| Carroll College | Phone interviews underway |
| Central Michigan University | offered to Jennifer Hoffman (declined); Chris Tycner |
| University of Chicago | |
| University of Chicago (Dept. Geophysical Sciences) | Fred Ciesla |
| Chicago State | Campus interviews underway. Offer made and accepted. |
| Coastal Carolina | Short list: Louis Rubbo |
| Colgate University | Interview candidates selected, including Patrick Crotty. Offer made: Patrick Crotty (accepted) |
| University of Colorado | Rejection letters sent. Short list made, including: David O’Brien, Shane Byrne, Sean Raymond |
| Columbia University | TOO: Miguel Morales. Shortlist includes: Hiranya Peiris, Stefano Profumo, Jo Dunkley, Dan Hooper. Offer made. |
| UC Davis | Visits being arranged, including: Jeff Newman, Darren Croton, Adam Bolton,Marusa Bradac. Offer made. |
| U Denver | 3 positions available, including 1 in astronomy and 1 in condensed matter. Short list: Jennifer Hoffman, Christopher Tycner Astronomy position offered to Jennifer Hoffman |
| DePaul University (Physics) | interview candidates selected |
| Edinburgh University (Observational Astronomy) | Short list includes: Catherine Heymans, Ross McLure, Andreas Berlind. Offer made to Ross McLure. |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | Short list includes: Ethan Siegel (withdrew), Dejan Stojkovic (withdrawn), Ilian Iliev, Anca Constantin, Michele Zanolin |
| ESO | (Director-General) Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (declined), Tim de Zeeuw (Starting Sept. 2007) |
| ESO | (Head of Science in Chile) interviews: Markus Kissler-Patig, Michael Sterzik plus three further candidates. Offer made to Michael West |
| ESO | (VISAS Astronomer) interviews scheduled. short list includes: Inga Kamp, Valentin Ivanov, Bodo Ziegler,Gaitee Hussain,Gwendolyn Meeus,Michael Pohlen. offer: Gaitee Hussain |
| Fermilab | shortlist includes Dragan Huterer, Hiranya Peiris, Ryan Scranton, Olivier Doré, Jeff Newman, Dan Hooper, Darren Croton, Edward Baltz, offer made to and accepted by Dan Hooper |
| Fermilab Director for Center for Particle Astrophysics (joint appt w/ U. Chicago) | Offer to Craig Hogan |
| Florida Gulf Coast U | Angela Osterman |
| Florida State | About 100 applications. Offer accepted (astrophysics): Chris Gerardy ;Offer accepted (computational science/astrophysics): Tomek Plewa |
| Gemini Observatory (Tenure-track Astronomer) | Letters requested. Initial interviews and phone interviews scheduled. Short list: Marc Seigar, Kai Noeske (long short list). On-site interviews: Ricardo Schiavon, Kai Noeske (withdrew). Offer made: Ricardo Schiavon |
| Geneva Observatory (Staff astronomer) | Laurent Eyer |
| Georgia State (CHARA) | position to be re-advertised next year |
| Georgia State (Teaching) | some candidates invited for visits |
| Georgia Tech (Physics) | Interviews underway: Richard O’Shaughnessy, Evan Scannapieco, Avery Broderick, Vuc Mandic (withdrawn) |
| U Göttingen | Martin Haehnelt (declined), Eva Grebel (declined), search canceled |
| U Göttingen (Junior Group Leader) | Ansgar Reiners (Emmy-Noether, self-funded) |
| Groningen | Letters requested, short list made including Inga Kamp, Wouter Vlemmings, Carsten Dominik, Floris van der Tak. Offer made: Inga Kamp |
| Hamilton College | Short list includes Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Natalia Kuznetsova. Offer made: Natalia Kuznetsova (accepted) |
| Harish-Chandra Research Institute | Short list includes T. Roy Choudhury and Sudip Bhattacharyya. Offered to Sudip Bhattacharyya (declined) and T. Roy Choudhury |
| Harvard (Astronomy) | Short list includes Edo Berger, Joseph Hennawi, Lisa Kewley, Ivo Labbe, Beth Willman, Dawn Erb, Mark Sullivan. Offer made to Lisa Kewley (declined), Edo Berger |
| Harvard (Planetary: Astronomy & EPS) | Candidates invited, including Gaspar Bakos, Matija Cuk, Isamu Matsuyama. No tenure-track offers made. |
| Harvard (Astronomy/Physics) | short list: Dan McKinsey, Ted Baltz, Chao-Lin Kuo. Offered to Chao-Lin Kuo. |
| Haverford College (Astronomy/Astrophysics) | |
| U Hawaii | Short list includes: Eric Pfahl, Alberto Bolatto, Beth Willman, Josh Eisner, Alison Coil, Lisa Kewley, Marc Kuchner. Offer made to Lisa Kewley |
| Heidelberg (junior group leader) | Short List: Dejan Stojkovic (withdrawn), Thorsten Lisker, 3 others. Offer made: Thorsten Lisker |
| U Heidelberg | Eva Grebel |
| U Heidelberg (Landessternwarte, W3) | Short list made, including Norbert Christlieb (withdrawn), Henrik Beuther, Marc Audard, Sebastian Wolf, Anna Pasquali, Christian Wolf. Candidates interviewed. Short short-list of three made. |
| Hertfordshire | Short list: Marc Sarzi, Sara Ellison. Offer: Jonathan Granot, Maria-Rosa Cioni |
| HIA (Canadian Gemini Office) | Letters solicited. Long short list includes Marc Seigar. John Blakeslee |
| U Hong Kong (IR/Sub-mm) | letters requested. Short list made. |
| U Iceland | Shortlist: Ilian Iliev |
| Imperial College | offer made: Peter Schneider (declined), Andy Taylor (declined), talks with Andrew Liddle. Professor search abandoned, lectureships advertised |
| Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore | offer made to Yogesh Wadadekar (declined) |
| Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) | shortlist includes: Yogesh Wadadekar, Sudip Bhattacharyya. offer made to Sudip Bhattacharyya (declined) |
| Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata | offer made to Sudip Bhattacharyya (declined) |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Scott Tremaine (starting January 2007), Nima Arkani-Hamed has apparently moved to IAS |
| U Iowa | search discontinued |
| James Madison University | Short list: Jennifer Hoffman; offers made. Offered to Markos Georganopoulos (declined) An offer has been accepted |
| JIVE, Dwingeloo | Short list: Leonid Gurvits, Huib Jan van Langevelde. Offered made and accepted: van Langevelde |
| Johns Hopkins | Offer made to Joanna Dunkley |
| Kagoshima U. (Full Professor) | Yoshiaki Sofue |
| W. M. Keck Observatory (Support Astronomer) | Offer made and accepted: Scott Dahm |
| Keele (UK) | Offers to Dean McLaughlin and Raphael Hirschi; James Reeves and Falk Herwig also arriving |
| Kennesaw State | offered to Dejan Stojkovic (declined) |
| Kiel (W2) | Short list: Rainer Schoedel, Sebastian Wolf, Manuel Guedel |
| Lancaster | Offered to: Anupam Mazumdar |
| UCLA | (Astronomy Position) Letters solicited; some interviews scheduled, includes: Mark Krumholz (withdrawn), Dawn Erb, Edo Berger, Hiranya Peiris, Alison Coil, Evan Scannapieco, Ryan Scranton. Offer made to Steve Furlanetto. (Astroparticle Position) Short list includes: Vuk Mandic, Nader Mirabolfathi |
| Lawrence University | phone interviews underway |
| LBT (Support Astronomer) | |
| LBT (AO Astronomer) | |
| LCOGT | Short list made, includes: Scott Sheppard, Mercedes Lopez-Morales |
| Lehigh | Short list: Ricardo Schiavon, Bart Willems, Andreas Berlind, Soeb Razzaque, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Ginny McSwain; Offered to: Ginny McSwain |
| U Leicester | Simon Vaughan |
| Leiden (Astrophysics) | Short list made: Lisa Kewley, Inga Kamp, Aldo Serenelli, Daniel Stern, Amina Helmi, Jarle Brinchmann; offers made to Amina Helmi (declined), Lisa Kewley (declined), Jarle Brinchmann |
| Leiden (Instrumentation) | Offer made to Jamie Lloyd (declined) |
| U Louisville | Short list includes Ricardo Schiavon, D. Andrew Howell, Adrienne Juett, Taotao Fang. Offer made: Ricardo Schiavon (declined) |
| Loyola Chicago (Physics) | Offer made and accepted |
| Macalester College | Short list made, interviews being scheduled, includes: Amalia Hicks, Craig Heinke, John Cannon, Barton Pritzl, and Rosa Williams. Offer made: John Cannon (accepted) |
| U Manchester (Pulsars) | 4 candidates interviewed: Paulo Freire, Wynn Ho, Ben Stappers, and Joeri van Leeuwen |
| U Maryland (Physics) | Particle physics people targeted |
| U Maryland (Astro) | Short list: Alberto Bolatto, Thomas Greve, Sheila Kannappan, Lisa Kewley (withdrawn), and Emeric Le Floc’h. Offer made: Sheila Kannappan (declined), Alberto Bolatto |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Short list includes: Justin Kasper, Eric Pfahl, Stefano Profumo, Chao-Lin Kuo, Todd Thompson, Vuk Mandic. Kasper selected by Astrophysics search, but available Physics slots ultimately allocated to other areas this year |
| Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Garching) | Director: Martin Asplund |
| Max Planck junior group leaders | Short list includes Kai Noeske |
| McMaster | Offer made to Laura Parker |
| U Michigan (Physics) | Short list: Dragan Huterer, Pat McDonald, Vuk Mandic, Hiranya Peiris (withdrawn), Niayesh Afshordi, offer out to Dragan Huterer |
| U Michigan (Astronomy) | |
| U Minnesota | Short list made includes Chao-Lin Kuo, Vuk Mandic, Richard Schnee, Amy Connolly, James Aguirre, Ignacio Taboada, Michael Dragowsky, rejection emails sent, offer to Mandic |
| U Minnesota (Physics) | Short list: K. Fukushima, A. Heger, A. Majumder, F. Yuan. Offer made: Alexander Heger |
| Mississippi State University (Computational Astrophysics) | |
| Monash (Physics) | Short list includes: Eric Mamajek |
| UNAM (Mexico City/Ensenada) | Offer made and accepted: Takamitsu Miyaji (Ensenada). |
| U New Mexico | Short list includes: Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Niayesh Afshordi. Offered to: Rouzbeh Allahverdi |
| NCRA, Pune, India (Assistant Prof.) | Offer made to and accepted by Yogesh Wadadekar |
| U Nijmegen (Associate prof) | Heino Falcke |
| U Nijmegen (Assist. prof) | Six candidates have been interviewed including Andrea Merloni, Peter Jonker, Anna Watts, Jorg Horandel |
| U North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Theoretical Cosmology) | Short list includes: Yun Wang, Niayesh Afshordi, Andrew Tolley, Alberto Nicolis. Offered to: Andrew Tolley (declined), search closed |
| U North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Observational Astronomy) | Short list includes: Ricardo Schiavon, Sheila Kannappan, Chien Peng. Offer made: Sheila Kannappan |
| U North Carolina - Asheville | Offer made and accepted |
| U North Dakota | Candidates invited for interviews include Jennifer Hoffman (withdrew). Offer made to Wayne Barkhouse (accepted) |
| NRAO | eVLA assistant scientist position: offer made - declined |
| Oberlin (Physics) | |
| Ohio State | Short list includes: Pat McDonald, Evan Scannapieco, Hiranya Peiris (withdrawn), Todd Thompson, Jason Tumlinson. Offer made to Todd Thompson. |
| Onsala Space Observatory | Rene Liseau, Kay Justtanont, Fredrik Schöier Larsen (faculty shuffle) |
| Orsay LPT | |
| U Oslo (Cosmology) | Short list: Hans Kristian Eriksen, Frode Hansen, David F. Mota, Ilian T. Iliev. Offer made Frode Hansen |
| U Oslo (Astro Plasmas) | Short list: Han Uitenbroek, Ilian T. Iliev, Boris Gudiksen |
| Oxford | Royal Society professorship: Richard Ellis |
| Oxford | Short list: Prasenjit Saha, Justin Read, J. Magorian |
| Oxford (astro) | Short list: Ilian Iliev, Mark Sullivan. RCUK short list: Niayesh Afshordi, Hiranya Peiris (withdrawn), Jo Dunkley, Andrew Tolley, Martin Kunz, Roberto Trotta. Offer made to Jo Dunkley. |
| Penn State (Astronomy) | Short list: Niayesh Afshordi, Hiranya Peiris, Dragan Huterer, Aki Roberge, Nader Haghighipour, Ed Thommes; offer out to Dragan Huterer (declined), Hiranya Peiris (declined) |
| Penn State (Physics) | Short list: Hiranya Peiris, offer out to non-astronomer |
| U Penn | Short list: Vuk Mandic, James Aguirre, Enzo Pascale, Chao-Lin Kuo, Miguel Morales. Offer made to Chao-Lin Kuo |
| U Pittsburgh | Short list: Niayesh Afshordi, Andreas Berlind, Dragan Huterer, Tesla Jeltema, Jeff Newman, Daniel McIntosh, Sarah Gallagher, Victor Debattista (withdrew). Offers made to: Andreas Berlind (declined), Jeff Newman, Dragan Huterer (declined) |
| Princeton (Astro) | Offer made to Lars Hernquist (declined) |
| Princeton (Gravity Group) | visits requested, includes Jeff Newman, Vuk Mandic, William Jones |
| PUC Chile | Andres Jordan |
| Queen Mary | Short list includes: Richard Alexander, Sean Raymond, Ed Thommes, Maria-Rosa Cioni; offer to Will Sutherland and Lindsay King |
| UC Riverside | Associate professorship: Gillian Wilson, Full professorship: Bahram Mobasher |
| Saint Mary’s | Almost 40 applications; Letters of recommendation requested; Interviews scheduled; Offer made: Luigi Gallo. |
| San Francisco State | Interview candidates selected, including: Joseph Barranco, Evan Scannapieco, Bart Willems. |
| UC Santa Cruz (Physics) | Short list made including Dave Pooley, Mike Muno, Sarah Gallagher (withdrawn), Richard Schnee, Stefano Profumo, Edward Baltz; Offered to Stefano Profumo |
| UC Santa Cruz (Astronomy) | Short list made including Dmitri Uzdensky, Aristotle Socrates, Mark Krumholz, Jonathan Fortney, Daniel Kasen, Alberto Bolatto, one other; Interviews completed. Two offers made: Mark Krumholz, Jonathan Fortney |
| U Sheffield (tenure track RC-UK Academic Fellowship in Physical Sciences) | short list made, including Holger Baumgardt |
| Siena College | Offer made: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (declined), Offer made: Natalia Kuznetsova (declined) |
| Sonoma State | Interviews scheduled; finalists include Jennifer Hoffman (withdrew), Ginny McSwain (withdrew) |
| U Southern Maine (physics) | Interview candidates selected, including: Louis Rubbo, Aaron Dotter, Julie Ziffer. Rejection letters sent (4/16). |
| Southern Utah | James Chisholm |
| SRON (Utrecht) | Interviews scheduled: Elisa Costantini, Brian McNamara (declined), Fabrizio Nicastro, Gabriel Pratt, Thomas Reiprich, Yangsen Yao. |
| STScI (Astronomer track) | Short list being made: includes Jeff Newman, Lisa Kewley, Lucas Macri, Karl Gordon, Inga Kamp, Aki Roberge, Kelle Cruz, Chien Peng, Christine Chen, Tracy Beck; Offers made to Lisa Kewley, Karl Gordon, Christine Chen |
| STScI (Scientist track) | Short list made, includes Jay Anderson, David Golimowski; Offers made to Jay Anderson, Tracy Beck |
| Spitzer Science Center | Short list made, interviews held. Short list: Chien Peng, Kai Noeske, Carolyn Brinkworth,Roberta Paladini,Inseok Song |
| Stanford/SLAC (KIPAC) | Short list made, includes Chao-Lin Kuo, Vuk Mandic, Miguel Morales, Justin Kasper; offers: Morales (declined), Kuo; GLAST position: Funk (accepted) |
| Stony Brook (NYCCS/Physics & Astronomy) | Short list made including Natalia Ivanova |
| Syracuse | Short list includes: Shourov Chatterji, Xavier Siemens, Natalia Kuznetsova, Duncan Brown, Rupak Mahapatra. Offers accepted: Duncan Brown, Richard Schnee |
| U Texas at Austin (McDonald Observatory) | (Director) offer made to Matthias Steinmetz (declined) |
| Texas A&M | Short list includes: Li-Xin Li, Lucas Macri, Thushara Perera, Casey Papovich, Robert Smith, Michael Wood-Vasey. Offers accepted: Casey Papovich and Lucas Macri. |
| Tennessee State (Physics) | Offered to Jennifer Hoffman (declined) |
| Tech. U of Munich (Cluster of Excellence) Particle Astro | Short list includes Rupak Mahapatra |
| TIFR, Mumbai (India) | offered to Sudip Bhattacharyya |
| U Tokyo (Astronomy) | Short list made: Masami Ouchi, Itsuki Sakon, Offer made: Itsuki Sakon |
| U Toledo | 59 applicants; Short list: Ricardo Schiavon, JD Smith, Rosa Williams, James Muzerolle; Offer made: Ricardo Schiavon (declined), JD Smith |
| Tufts University | Short list made, interviews scheduled (12/15). Short list includes: Ken Rines, Sarah Gallagher, Offer made: Sheila Kannappan (declined) Marianne Vestergaard |
| Union College | 250 applicants; short list made; they have decided not to hire an astronomer; rejection letters sent 2/21 |
| Vanderbilt | Short list: Andreas Berlind, Jeff Newman, Dragan Huterer, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Natalia Ivanova, Evan Scannapieco. Offers to Andreas Berlind and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann |
| Vassar (Physics) | Two offers made |
| Virginia Tech (Physics) | Short list: Jimmy Irwin, Abraham Falcone, Andreas Berlind (withdrawn), Evan Scannapieco, Aldo Serenelli. Offer Accepted by Nahum Arav |
| Warwick | Andrew Levan |
| U Washington | Short list (astro): Tom Murphy, Chao-Lin Kuo, Natalia Kuznetsova, Ed Daw. Offer accepted: Miguel Morales |
| U Western Ontario | Short list: Vincent Fish, Sarah Gallagher, Brenda Matthews, Jan Cami, Eduard Vorobyov. Offer accepted: Sarah Gallagher |
| U Wisconsin-Madison (Physics) | Short list: Amy Connolly, Kael Hanson, Gary Hill, Aart Heijboer, Stefan Westerhoff |
| U Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Short list includes: Xavier Siemens, Duncan Brown (withdrawn), Badri Krishnan, Vuk Mandic, more senior person. Offers to Vuk Mandic (declined) and Xavier Siemens |
| Wooster | Have asked for further information. |
| Yale (Physics) | Short list includes Chao-Lin Kuo, Vuk Mandic, Miguel Morales, Amy Connolly, Mark Sullivan, and Jeff Newman. Offers made: Mark Sullivan (declined), Miguel Morales (declined). |
| Yale (Astronomy) | Short list includes Ricardo Schiavon, Lisa Kewley, Evan Scannapieco, Thomas Brown, Marla Geha, Eric Mamajek. Offers made to: Lisa Kewley (declined), Hector Arce and Marla Geha |
Job rumours from previous years
Previous years: 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.
Also archived at: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
