Postdoc positions

A quick roundup of postdoc and faculty positions currently advertised at http://intractability.princeton.edu/jobs/ whose deadlines have not yet passed:

• Postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (deadline Jan 31)
• Postdoc at Cornell at the interface of networks, computing, and economics (deadline Jan 30)
• Simons postdoc at Carnegie Mellon (deadline Jan 31)
• Postdoc at LIAFA (Paris) (deadline Feb 1)
• Theory Postdoc at EPFL and Faculty positions at EPFL (no deadline stated)
• Postdoc in Theory/Practice of Differential Privacy at UPenn (no deadline stated)
• Postdoc in Cryptography at Tel-Aviv University (no deadline stated)
• Faculty positions at Northeastern University, Boston. (no deadline stated)
• Tenure-track Faculty Position at Purdue (Krannert School of Management) (no deadline stated)

Check http://intractability.princeton.edu/jobs/ for further updates.

Two announcements of potential interest to TCS students

1. Simons Graduate Fellowships in TCS: intended for students who have already produced significant results in TCS, this fellowship provides support for two years plus includes travel funds.  At most one application per university, so coordinate with your department chair. The Simons foundation anticipates making roughly 5 awards.  Deadline is May 1, 2012.  More information.

2. IAS summer school in Computation and Biology, July 9-20, 2012, will explore topics at the interface of theoretical computer science, statistical physics and quantitative biology.  Organizers are Bernard Chazelle, David Huse, and Stanislas Leibler. Information about application procedures and a program schedule can be found on the website: www.ias.edu/pitp.  The program is intended for both PhD students and postdocs.  Application deadline: March 1, 2012. Here is a publicity poster.

DARPA Young Faculty Award program

DARPA’s 2012 Young Faculty Award program  provides grants of $150,000/year for up to 2 years for junior faculty.  The announcement explicitly mentions a number of topic areas, of which the most relevant to TCS look to be:

• Quantum Science and Technology
• Mathematics (listing algorithms, geometric and topological methods, combinatorics, and graph theory and network analysis, among others)
• Computational and Quantitative Social, Decision, and Behavioral Sciences.

Submission deadline is 4pm ET January 19, 2012.

See http://www.darpa.mil/Opportunities/Universities/Young_Faculty.aspx and the grants.gov site for more information.