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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">De: <strong
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          Date: vie., 25 nov. 2022 10:24<br>
          Subject: Postdoc positions in Swansea - PPTC Group<br>
          To: ECT Staff <<a href="mailto:staff@ectstar.eu"
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          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Dear
              ECT* Associate,</font></div>
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          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">we
              would like to bring to your attention the
              announcement below for 6 <span class="gmail_default"></span>postdoctoral
              positions at the <span class="gmail_default"></span>Swansea
              Particle Physics Theory and Cosmology research group.</font></div>
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          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Best
              regards,</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">ECT*
              Staff</font></div>
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Dear
                      Colleagues,</span></p>
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">following
                      a recent award of funding from the Science and
                      Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the <span
                        class="gmail_default"
                        style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>Swansea
                      Particle Physics Theory and Cosmology (PPTC)
                      research group has
                      <b>six openings for <span class="gmail_default"
                          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>postdoctoral
                        positions</b>. </span></p>
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Some
                      of these may be of interest to the ECT* community:
                      three of these openings will support specific
                      themes of the research programme in Lattice Field
                      Theory (namely, QCD in extreme conditions,
                      strongly interacting dynamics beyond the standard
                      model and the interface between lattice field
                      theory and machine learning), the others being in
                      QFT/Strings/Black Holes and Holography  (2 posts)
                      and Cosmology Theory (1 post). The full list of
                      the openings is available at the URL </span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/Swansea*20University/Physics__;JQ!!D9dNQwwGXtA!QvAlBH8oW9eOMyN_S4h6cfKlZ_7nRjJFMO9DYVFEE1RHYbHn6L_Z9shD_7CpBgKJHYL3bZZMRSd3xphEgVmhDEgFReTEjg1DfA$"
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">and
                      applicants are encouraged to submit their
                      paperwork there, but in order for applications to
                      be official they must also be submitted to Swansea
                      University following the relevant link at this
                      page:</span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swansea/current-vacancies/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!QvAlBH8oW9eOMyN_S4h6cfKlZ_7nRjJFMO9DYVFEE1RHYbHn6L_Z9shD_7CpBgKJHYL3bZZMRSd3xphEgVmhDEgFReS5DIJFaQ$"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swansea/current-vacancies/</a></span></p>
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">where
                      full details of the generic duties and other
                      information are also available.  Only applications
                      submitted through the Swansea system can be
                      considered.</span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">All
                      posts are for two years, except for the Cosmology
                      one, which is for 3 years. The expectation is that
                      the start will be in the Fall 2023, although there
                      is some flexibility for the start date. The
                      deadline for applications will be Dec 11, 2022, at
                      11:59 PM UK Time.  </span></p>
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The
                      <span class="gmail_default"
                        style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>PPTC
                      group at Swansea comprises 13 academics and has a
                      strong research programme in Quantum Field
                      Theories, Strings, Black Holes, Holography,
                      Cosmology Theory, Amplitudes, QCD spectroscopy and
                      Lattice Field Theory. The Lattice Field Theory
                      subgroup comprises Gert Aarts, Chris Allton,
                      Timothy Burns, Biagio Lucini and Maurizio Piai,
                      and has wide-ranging interests including QCD in
                      extreme conditions, beyond the standard model and
                      machine learning. The successful candidates will
                      join a vibrant and stimulating interlinked
                      research environment offering exciting
                      opportunities for collaborating, developing new
                      ideas and establishing new connections.   </span></p>
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""> </span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Further
                      details for the lattice posts are as follows: </span></p>
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""> </span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                        style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Post
                        RA7 - Extreme QCD </span></b></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The
                      PDRA will join the research programme undertaken
                      by Gert Aarts, Chris Allton, and Tim Burns, as
                      part of the FASTSUM collaboration, which covers
                      QCD at finite temperature and density, with
                      interest in the behaviour of hadrons below and
                      above the deconfinement transition, hadron
                      spectroscopy in general, transport, and other
                      observables of interest for heavy-ion
                      phenomenology. The project will include both
                      analytical calculations and numerical development.
                      The ideal candidate for the post will have a
                      strong background in lattice field theory at
                      either zero or nonzero temperature. </span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">For
                      informal enquiries about this post please contact
                      Gert Aarts (<a href="mailto:g.aarts@swansea.ac.uk"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">g.aarts@swansea.ac.uk</a>),
                      Chris Allton (<a
                        href="mailto:c.r.allton@swansea.ac.uk"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">c.r.allton@swansea.ac.uk</a>)
                      or Tim Burns (<a
                        href="mailto:t.burns@swansea.ac.uk"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">t.burns@swansea.ac.uk</a>).  </span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                        style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Post
                        RA8 - Lattice Field Theory and Machine
                        Learning  </span></b></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The
                      PDRA will join the research programme led by Gert
                      Aarts and Biagio Lucini, which covers topics such
                      as machine learning applications to the study of
                      observables near phase transition points, the
                      inverse renormalization group, persistent homology
                      methods for identifying topologically nontrivial
                      field configurations and lattice field theory
                      derived machine learning methods. The project will
                      include both analytical calculations and software
                      development. The ideal candidate for the post will
                      have a strong background in lattice field theory
                      and/or statistical mechanics with ideally
                      demonstrable experience in machine learning.
                      Candidates with a background in topological data
                      analysis or machine learning willing to learn
                      lattice field theory will also be considered.
                      Given the range of skills considered, candidates
                      are invited to provide in their application full
                      details about their previous relevant experience
                      and their expertise. </span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">For
                      informal enquiries about this post please contact
                      Gert Aarts (<a href="mailto:g.aarts@swansea.ac.uk"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">g.aarts@swansea.ac.uk</a>)
                      or Biagio Lucini (<a
                        href="mailto:b.lucini@swansea.ac.uk"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">b.lucini@swansea.ac.uk</a>).</span></p>
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                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""> </span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                        style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Post
                        RA4 - Lattice Field Theory applied to extensions
                        of the Standard Model </span></b></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The
                      PDRA will join the research programme led by
                      Biagio Lucini and Maurizio Piai, working on new
                      strongly coupled realizations of composite
                      dynamics and its applications, which include for
                      example composite Higgs models, dilaton-Higgs
                      models, top partial compositeness, quasi-conformal
                      dynamics, strongly interacting models of dark
                      matter. The ideal candidate for the post has a
                      strong background in theoretical particle physics,
                      and previous experience with programming and
                      running lattice calculations on modern, parallel
                      computing facilities. Familiarity with current
                      trends in extensions of the Standard Model is
                      desirable, as is expertise with effective field
                      theory techniques, and with more formal
                      theoretical ideas, such as those of gauge/gravity
                      dualities. The project will include both a
                      software development component and a physics
                      analysis one, hence candidates are invited to
                      provide in their application technical details
                      about their previous experience. </span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">For
                      informal enquiries about this post please contact
                      Biagio Lucini (<a
                        href="mailto:b.lucini@swansea.ac.uk"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">b.lucini@swansea.ac.uk</a>)
                      or Maurizio Piai (<a
                        href="mailto:m.piai@swansea.ac.uk"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">m.piai@swansea.ac.uk</a>) </span></p>
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                      University is committed to supporting and
                      promoting equality and diversity in all of its
                      practices and activities. We aim to establish an
                      inclusive environment and welcome diverse
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                      characteristics: age, disability, ethnicity,
                      gender identity, marriage and civil partnership,
                      pregnancy and maternity, religion and belief, sex
                      (gender), sexual orientation. Appointments will
                      always be based on merit. </span></p>
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                      wishes</span></p>
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