<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear All,</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please find below about the "Frontiers in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics" postdoctoral fellowships job advertisement at RIT.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Best regards, </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Manuela</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Postdoctoral Fellowships Available in Multi-messenger Astrophysics at RIT</b></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://ccrg.rit.edu/content/news/2018-07-26/postdoctoral-fellowships-available-multi-messenger-astrophysics-rit" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">https://ccrg.rit.edu/content/news/2018-07-26/postdoctoral-fellowships-available-multi-messenger-astrophysics-rit</font></a></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">The recent observations of a binary neutron star merger using both gravitational wave interferometers as well as electromagnetic telescopes across the full spectrum have initiated the age of multi-messenger astronomy and astrophysics.</font></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">As part of several NASA and NSF collaborative projects, the RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) is currently seeking to fill one or two postdoctoral research positions with highly qualified individuals interested in pursuing research in the fields of numerical relativity, theoretical and computational astrophysics, with an emphasis on general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics simulations.</font></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">We are particularly interested in relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics simulations of accretion disks around supermassive black hole mergers, and binary neutron star coalescences from prior to merger through to the formation of disks and/or collapse of the merged remnant, the production of jets, and launching of outflows. We are also interested perform “event-based” simulations, using parameters informed by specific LIGO/Virgo detections, and thereby permitting much closer comparison with observables, in order to interpret current and future multi-messenger observations by a wide array of current and future detectors.</font></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">The successful postdoctoral candidates will be Fellows of a new prestigious “Frontier in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics” (FGWA) Program. Initially appointed for two or three years, the Fellows are renewable up to five years depending on satisfactory performance and the availability of funds.</font></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">Senior scientists in the group includes Manuela Campanelli (Director), Joshua Faber, Carlos Lousto, Richard O’Shaughnessy, Jason Nordhaus, Yosef Zlochower, Sukanya Chakrabarti, John Whelan, and Hans-Peter Bischof, several postdoctoral fellows and Ph.D. students (see <a href="http://ccrg.rit.edu/people" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(7, 141, 146); text-decoration: none;">http://ccrg.rit.edu/people</a> for an overview on who is or has been at CCRG). The group is involved in several large collaborations, including the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), The Einstein Toolkit Consortium (<a href="http://einsteintoolkit.org/" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(7, 141, 146); text-decoration: none;">http://einsteintoolkit.org</a>) and a NASA Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics Network (TCAN). CCRG researchers have access to several computing cluster facilities at national computing centers such as XSEDE and the NCSA’s Blue Waters Supercomputer (with an allocation of over 160 million core hours), as well as a dedicated over 3000-core cluster hosted at the Center.</font></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">More information about the CCRG is available at <a href="http://ccrg.rit.edu/" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(7, 141, 146); text-decoration: none;">http://ccrg.rit.edu/</a>. And about Rochester at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(7, 141, 146); text-decoration: none;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York</a></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">Applications should consist of a cover letter, a brief statement of research interests, a curriculum vitae including publication list, and at least three letters of recommendation. All materials should be sent electronically as soon as possible to: manuela[AT]astro[dot]rit[dot]edu with a copy to ccrg-postdoc[AT]<a href="http://ccrgweb.rit.edu/" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(7, 141, 146); text-decoration: none;">ccrgweb.rit.edu</a>.</font></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">Application material should also be posted at: <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25483&siteid=5289#jobDetails=1402135_5289" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(7, 141, 146); text-decoration: none;">https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25483&siteid=5289#jobDetails=1402135_5289</a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">Enquiries can be addressed to the center’s Director:</font></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">Manuela Campanelli, manuela[AT]astro[dot]rit[dot]edu Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, School of Mathematical</font></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">Sciences, and School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=85+Lomb+Memorial+Drive+Rochester,+New+York+14623+USA&entry=gmail&source=g" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(7, 141, 146); text-decoration: none;">85 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, New York 14623 USA</a></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Arial" class="">Review of completed applications will begin as soon as available and will continue until a suitable candidate is found. Starting date can be as early as January and no later than September, 2019. RIT is committed to equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.</font></span></p></div></body></html>