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Jobs and 5 Year fellowships for 2007-2008 Academic Year
NExT Institute at Southampton/RAL/RHUL & Sussex
(Five Fellowships/Lectureships in particle physics phenomenology, deadlines vary)
Oliver Brein (IPPP Durham)
Pasquale Di Bari (Padova)
Rakhi Magbubani (Fermilab)
Roman Zwicky (Edinburgh)
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Offered to:
Sussex (Professorship in Particle Physics Phenom., deadline 30 June)
Offered to:
Oxford (Lectureship, deadline 9 May)
Volker Braun (University of Pennsylvania)
Joe Conlon (Cambridge)
Yang-Hui He (Oxford)
Andrei Starinets (Southampton)
Alessandro Tomasiello (Harvard)
Timo Weigand (University of Pennsylvania)
Offered to:
Andrei Starinets (accepted)Southampton (Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Applied Maths, dedline 6 May)
Offered to:
York (Two lectureships in Maths, deadline 29 April)
Offered to:
Glasgow (Professorship in exp. or th. Particle Physics, deadline 14 March)
Offered to:
Glasgow (Lectureship in phenomenology or lattice, deadline 14 March)
Offered to:
Maynooth (Deadline 28th March)
Damien Easson (Durham)
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Offered to:
Royal Society Fellowships (deadline October)
Joe Conlon (with Oxford)
Damien Easson (with King's College)
Tony Padilla (with Nottingham)
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Offered to:
Joe Conlon (accepted)
Tony Padilla (accepted)
EPSRC Advanced Fellowships
Daniele Oriti (with Nottingham)
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Offered to:
Daniele Oriti (declined)
STFC Advanced Fellowships
Ruth Britto, with Queen Mary
James Zanotti, with Edinburgh
Roman Zwicky, with Edinburgh
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Offered to:
Ruth Britto (declined)
James Zanotti (accepted)
Roman Zwicky (accepted)
Theorist 2007-2008 Shuffles:
Andrei Starinets (Southampton) -> Oxford
Jobs for Previous Academic Years
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