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Open Rank, Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track Associate Professor or Professor in Theoretical Gravity & Astrophysics
Job Description
The 蘑菇tv Department of Physics & Astronomy invites applications for an open-rank tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor, tenure-track associate professor, or tenured professor level. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, theoretical gravity, including quantum / semiclassical gravity, quantum field theory in curved spacetime, relativistic quantum information, numerical relativity, time-domain and multimessenger astrophysics, computational high-energy astrophysics, nuclear astrophysics and relativistic plasma astrophysics.
蘑菇tv faculty actively participate in the LIGO experiment with the LIGO Livingston site
about 30 miles away from campus.
Review of applications starts November 15th.
Question? Contact the search chair, Prof. Jorge Pullin (pullin@lsu.edu)
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