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The Department of Physics at Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), Bogotá, is seeking to fill a tenure-track

faculty position in experimental High Energy Physics. Uniandes is a private university, which strives for

excellence in both teaching and research. According with the QS academic ranking, Uniandes is positioned

in the top ten universities in Latin America. Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree in this field of research with

postdoctoral experience in hardware and software development and implementation.

All professors in our Department are required to participate in teaching a variety of undergraduate and

graduate courses in physics, including physics major requirements, and elective courses related to the

research activities of the professors. The new faculty member will be expected to participate in institutional

development activities in our Department and at the University level, outreach and international collaborations.

The selected candidate is invited to join the High Energy Physics group at Universidad de los Andes. The

group collaborates with the CMS experiment at the LHC, and has an intensive research program in particle

physics phenomenology and interdisciplinary detector applications. It is preferable if the new faculty member

can contribute in more than one of these areas. Also, the group is open to new research lines and projects

in experimental high energy physics that the new faculty member may bring. Our institution is interested in

highly motivated professors with an interdisciplinary research approach and commitment to teaching. More

information about the department research lines and experimental and computing facilities can be found at:

http://fisica.uniandes.edu.co

Interested applicants should fill out their personal information and submit the following documents:

a) curriculum vitae including a list of publications, b) an independent and viable research plan document, and

a c) teaching plan document through the following link http://fisicaconvocatoriasp.uniandes.edu.co

Additionally, the applicant should provide the contact information of three references. Referees will be

contacted by the Department of Physics to submit their reference letters through the online platform.

The selection process will begin August 30th, 2019, giving priority to applicants that apply by that date.

However, applications will continue to be received beyond that date until the position is filled.

For further information, please contact:

Dr. Chad Leidy

e-mail: [email protected]

Head, Physics Department, Universidad de los Andes

A.A. 4976, Bogotá, Colombia, Phone (57-1)-339-4949 ext. 2730

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New head for Oak Ridge physics

The Department of Energy’s Oak

Ridge National Laboratory has

named Marcel Demarteau (above)

as director of its physics division.

Demarteau was previously at

Argonne National Laboratory,

where he directed the high-

energy physics division with a

programme ranging from studies

at the LHC to investigations

using the South Pole Telescope

in Antarctica. He was previously

at Fermilab for nearly 20 years,

where he conducted detector R&D

and served in leadership roles for

the Dø experiment and worked on

the CMS experiment at the LHC.

Demarteau succeeds David Dean.

EPS prizes galore

The European Physical Society

(EPS) has awarded the CDF and Dø

collaborations at Fermilab with

the 2019 High Energy and Particle

Physics Prize for the discovery

of the top quark and the detailed

measurement of its properties.

The EPS awards the prize every

two years for an outstanding

contribution in an experimental,

theoretical or technological area.

The 2019 Giuseppe and

Vanna Cocconi Prize for an

outstanding contribution

to particle astrophysics and

cosmology went to the WMAP and

Planck collaborations for their

high-precision measurements

of the cosmic microwave

background temperature and

polarisation anisotropies.

The Gribov Medal for

outstanding work by a young

researcher in theoretical particle

physics was awarded to Douglas

Stanford of the Institute for

Advanced Study in Princeton

(below) “for his pioneering

work on quantum chaos and its

relation to the near-horizon

dynamics of black holes”. The

Young Experimental Physicist

Prize for outstanding work of

early-career researchers was

awarded to Josh Bendavid of

CERN “for outstanding and

innovative contributions to

detector operations, software

development, data analysis

and detector upgrades of the

CMS experiment” and Lesya

Shchutska of EPFL Lausanne

(above) “for outstanding

contributions to experimental

activities in particle physics,

from the design and simulation

of novel experiments, test-

beam operations and analyses,

to data analyses and their final

theoretical interpretations”.

Finally, the 2019 EPS HEP

Outreach Prize was awarded to

Rob Appleby of the University

of Manchester (above), Chris

Edmonds of the University of

Liverpool (below) and Robyn

Watson of Bolton Sensory Support

Service for their project “Tactile

Collider”, which brings particle

physics to blind and visually

impaired schoolchildren through

touch and sound. The project has

run at many sites across the UK

and will be visiting CERN in the

autumn of 2019.

Gomis wins Canadian award

Jaume Gomis of the Perimeter

Institute in Canada (top

right) has been awarded this

year’s Prize for Theoretical

and Mathematical Physics by

the Canadian Association of

Physicists and the Centre de

recherches mathématiques.

The prize recognizes Gomis “for

his broad range of important

contributions to string theory and

strongly coupled gauge theories,

including the pioneering use

of non-local observables, the

exact computation of physical

quantities in quantum field

theory, and the unravelling of the

non-perturbative dynamics of

gauge theories.”

Innovative spirit recognised

The inaugural Oed prize,

established by the Institut Laue-

Langevin in Grenoble, has been

awarded to Rui de Oliveira of CERN

(below) for his major contribution

in the development of micro-

pattern gas detectors. The prize

aims to promote an innovative

spirit and the ability to solve

technical challenges, which were

at the origin of the micro-strip

gas chamber invented by Anton

Oed in the late 1980s (see p57).

Appointments and awards

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