Gravity and astrophysics at UMiss

The University of Mississippi invites applications for a postdoctoral
position in the area of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. The
applicant must have (or be close to completing) a Ph.D. in Physics or
Astrophysics, with a good track record in one or more of the following
research areas: gravitational-wave source modeling and astrophysics,
numerical relativity, post-Newtonian theory, alternative theories of
gravity, perturbation theory of stars and black holes.

The Gravitational and High-Energy Theory Group at the University of
Mississippi is active in various areas of theoretical and experimental
gravity, and is part of the LIGO collaboration. Members of the group
include Emanuele Berti, Luca Bombelli, Marco Cavaglia, Alakabha Datta
and Tibor Torma, adjunct professors Vitor Cardoso and Ulrich Sperhake,
several postdocs and graduate students.

The successful applicant is expected to engage in a collaborative
research program involving several institutions, including Caltech and
Princeton in the USA, Lisbon, Cambridge, Rome and Aveiro in Europe,
and Para’ University in Brazil (among others).

A curriculum vitae (including a list of publications and a statement
of research interests) should be sent to the following e-mail address:

grpostdoc [at] phy.olemiss.edu

Please use the subject “Gravitational theory postdoc”. Applicants must
also arrange to have at least three recommendation letters to be sent
to the same email address.

Applications must be submitted as soon as possible, and possibly no
later than 12/31/2014, but late applications may be considered until
the position is filled.

Emanuele and Hector are attending the DPG Physics School on “General Relativity @ 99”. This is one of many events organized on the occasion of the 100 years of Einstein’s General Relativity theory. Links to the presentations are available at the school website. The latest version of Emanuele’s lecture notes is available here.

The LIGO Laboratory and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announce the public release of two years of data taken by the three LIGO gravitational-wave detectors during LIGO’s fifth science run, 2005-2007 (S5). The full announcement is at http://www.ligo.org/ … /s5-data-release.php and the data is released at https://losc.ligo.org.

Andrea Maselli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) will visit the group in September. Welcome, Andrea!