Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: dacke@sajber.cs.umu.se (Krister Dackland)
Subject: ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
Organization: UMDAC
Date: 25 May 1998 07:18:01 GMT
Message-ID: <6kb5v9$6c8$1@studium.student.umu.se>


UMEA UNIVERSITY IN SWEDEN  ANNOUNCES AN ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP 
       IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING 

Umea University on the east coast of northern Sweden is a young and 
dynamic university with over 23 000 students and 3900 employees. 
Education and research cover a wide and comprehensive field. The 
University is expanding in research and development in computational
science.

We now welcome applications for a position as Assistant Professor
of High-Performance and Scientific Computing at the Department
of Computing Science. In addition to pursuing research, the
successful candidate is expected to assist in supervising graduate
students and preferably also in attracting research grants.

In order to qualify for the position you should have a doctoral
degree (or equivalent) which is not more than five years old.
The position is for two years, with a two years prolongation.
The position can optionally be prolonged up to a total of six years
by teaching on under-graduate level.

The successful candidate is expected to work in collaboration
with existing research groups at the Department and the High
Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N). Today research
is conducted in high-performance and parallel computing,
numerical linear algebra with applications, optimization,
differential-algebraic systems of equations, mathematical
and scientific software. We also encourage applicants that
represent other areas of research and applications in
scientific computing.

HPC2N is a national center for scientific and parallel computing
located at Umea University.(See http://www.hpc2n.umu.se). 
Umea University offers academic and industrial users access to
leading-edge high-performance computing systems. This includes
a Silicon Graphics Onyx2 with two InfiniteReality2 graphics units, 
and a scalable 66-node IBM SP system with 32.5 Gflops/sec. 
peak performance. (See http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/system).

For further information, please contact Professor Bo Kagstrom, Chairman 
of the Department of Computing Science, phone: +46-90-786 54 19, 
email: bokg@cs.umu.se, or Professor Per-Ake Wedin, phone: 
+46-90-786 54 39, email: pwedin@cs.umu.se.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae, copies of degree 
certificates, a statement of previous research achievements and 
teaching merits, a list of publications, and reprints numbered 
according to the list, all in four copies. The application should 
be marked dnr 3152-926-98 and sent to Registrator, Umea University,
SE-901 87 Umea, Sweden. Closing date is June 15, 1998.