UK Theoretical Particle Physics Job Rumour Mill - 1999-2000




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Cambridge (DAMTP) (2 jobs) (deadline: 31st March )
Short List:
Fernando Quevedo (DAMTP)
....
Offered to:
Fernando Quevedo (accepted)
Manchester (2 jobs + 1 prof, across physics) (deadline: 19th May )
Short List:
Mike Seymour (RAL)
plus other fields
Offered to:
Mike Seymour (accepted)
plus two solid state
Heriot-Watt (maths) (2 jobs) (deadline: 24th March )
Short List:
Richard Szabo (Niels Bohr Inst)
....
Offered to:
Richard Szabo (Niels Bohr Inst)
Sussex (deadline: 1st March )
Short List:
Alon Faraggi (Minnesota)
Dietrich Bodeker (Niels Bohr)
Steve Abel (Saclay)
Andre Lukas (Oxford)
Beatriz De Carlos (CERN)
Fernando Quevedo (DAMTP)
....

Offered to:
Fernando Quevedo (declined)
Andre Lukas (accepted)
KCL (Maths) (deadline: 13th March )
Short List:
Andreas Recknagel (AEI Potsdam)
....
Offered to:
Andreas Recknagel
Durham (Maths) (deadline: 6th March )
Short List:
Chong-Sun Chu (Neuchatel)
Andre Lukas (Oxford)
Per Berglund (Santa Barbara)
Richard Battye (DAMTP)
....

Offered to:
Chong-Sun Chu (accepted)
Oxford (deadline:15th March )
Short List:
Alon Faraggi (Oxford)
Andre Lukas (Oxford)
Emanuel Diacones (IAS)
Fernando Quevedo (DAMTP)
.....
Offered to:
Fernando Quevedo (declined)
in limbo
Heriot-Watt (deadline:12th Nov )
Short List:
Bernd Schroers (Edinburgh)
....
Offered to:
Bernd Schroers (accepted)
Cambridge DAMTP (5 year Hawking-Fellowship) (deadline:13 Nov )
Short List:
Martin Bucher (Cambridge)
....
Offered to:
Martin Bucher (accepted)
Glasgow University (deadline:24 Sept )
Short List:
Ben Allanach (Cambridge)
Steve Abel (Saclay)
Mark Alford (MIT)
Sara Collins (Glasgow)
Alon Faraggi (Minnesota)
Hartmut Wittig (Oxford)

Offered to:
Ben Allanach (declined)
Mark Alford (accepted)
PPARC Advanced Fellowships (deadline Nov 15th)
Short List:
Luis Bettencourt (Los Alamos)
Arjun Berera (Edinburgh) (with Edinburgh)
Richard Szabo (Niels Bohr Inst)(with Oxford)
Robert Thorne (Oxford) (with RAL)
Andre Lukas (Oxford) (with Oxford)
M Alvarez (QMW) (with QMW)
Martin McDermott (Manchester)
...
Offered to:
Arjun Berera (accepted)
Richard Szabo (accepted)
Robert Thorne (declined)
Andre Lukas (accepted)
Marcos Alvarez (accepted)

Royal Society Fellowships (deadline Jan 29th)
Short List:
Raphael Bousso (Stanford) (with DAMTP)
Robert Thorne (Oxford) (with Cavendish)
Offered to:
Raphael Bousso (accepted)
Robert Thorne (accepted)




Other Theorist 1999-2000 Promotions/Shuffles:

Steve King (Southampton) awarded PPARC Senior Fellowship.
Richard Ball (Edinburgh) -> Scientific Associate at CERN (for 2000/01)
Herbi Dreiner (RAL) declined redeployment to Durham for Bonn University
Mike Seymour (RAL) declined redeployment to Durham for Manchester