Attention: Computer Scientists and Computational Physicists 
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A Research Programmer position and/or a postdoctoral research
associate position will be available in the Gravitation 
Group WUGRAV of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences and the 
Department of Physics of the Washington University beginning in the fall
of 1999/spring of 2000.  
The positions are funded by a grant from the NSF KDI (Knowledge and 
Distributed Intelligence) Program for the construction of an 
Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory (ASC) to enable large scale 
simulations in relativistic astrophysics.  The ASC is a joint project 
between Washington University, NCSA, University of Chicago,
Rutgers and the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany.  

This is an exciting, high profile project that draws from many
computational science and computational astrophysics
activities.
The collaboratory will enable massively parallel simulations based on
general relativity, relativistic hydrodynamics and nuclear
astrophysics.  The physics modules will be embedded in
an environment that enables parallel I/O, performance analysis, remote
steering, non-linear elliptic/hyperbolic equation solving, remote and
distributed computing, adaptive mesh refinement,
and visualization, building on existing/developing components including
Cactus, HDF, Panda, Autopilot, PETSc, Globus, GrACE, VTK and others.


Applications are invited from physicists and computer scientists with 
research interests in the areas of parallel and distributed computing, 
numerical relativity, and computational astrophysics.  For the research
programmer position a good knowledge of C, Fortran, Perl, and C++, and
experience in research programming, are required.
 
At present, the WUGRAV group consists of Professors Wai-Mo Suen and
Clifford Will, Research Scientist Mark
Miller, Post-doctoral Fellows Malcolm Tobias and A. Gopakumar, and
students.  The successful candidates will be working closely together
with physicists and computational scientists in WUGRAV and
collaborating institutes in the NSF ASC project and the NASA Neutron
Star Grand Challenge project.  

Send curriculum vita, statement of research interests, and three letters 
of reference to
Professor Wai-Mo Suen
Department of Physics, Campus Box 1105
Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
wms@wugrav.wustl.edu, FAX (314) 935-6219
 
Washington University is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity employer