25 July 2008

York, Kansas State, Berkeley hire.

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Faculty positions

red=accepted position somewhere, blue=offered position somewhere
Alabama
 Short list:
 Diyar Talbayev
Nikoleta Theodoropoulou
... 		Offered to:
Albert Einstein College (Bio)
 Short list:
 Arne Gennerich
... 		Offered to:
Arne Gennerich (accepted)
Arizona State (Nano exp)
Nov. 28 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Arizona State (Bio exp)
Nov. 28 2007 		Short list:
 Sacha De Carlo
Martin Forstner
... 		Offered to:
Auburn (AMO exp)
Nov. 15 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Bates College
 Short list:
 Lillian Childress
... 		Offered to:
Lillian Childress (accepted)
Berkeley (AMO and QOpt)
Nov. 21 2007 		Short list:
 Hartmut Haeffner
Holger Mueller
Brian Odom
Mukund Vengalattore
... 		Offered to:
Holger Mueller (accepted)
Hartmut Haeffner (accepted)
Berkeley (CM/Bio/open)
Nov. 21 2007 		Short list:
 Abhay Pasupathy
Susan Cox
Matteo Rini
Ahmet Yildiz
Louis Bouchard
... 		Offered to:
Ahmet Yildiz (accepted)
Brown (Bio th)
Jan. 7 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
NO OFFER WILL BE MADE
Cal. State-Fullerton (Optics)
Nov. 2 2007 		Short list:
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Cal. State-Northridge (CM th)
 Short list:
 Sumanta Tewari
Vito Scarola
Adrian Feiguin
... 		Offered to:
Sumanta Tewari (declined)
Cal. State-Sacramento (Open th)
Nov. 2 2007 		Short list:
 Cynthia Trevisan
Jerome Burki
Vivek Aji
Julian Velev
people in other fields
... 		Offered to:
Jerome Burki
Caltech
 Short list:
 Cindy Regal
... 		Offered to:
Cindy Regal
Caltech AP (CM/Bio)
 Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Carnegie-Mellon (Bio exp)
Sep. 2007 		Short list:
 Suliana Manley
Arun Radhakrishnan
Andrea Armani
... 		Offered to:
Carnegie-Mellon Chemistry (Bio th/exp)
Oct. 1 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Case Western (CM exp)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Hans Wyss
SEARCH CANCELLED
... 		Offered to:
Central Michigan (CM exp)
Oct. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Philippe Westreich
Axel Mellinger
... 		Offered to:
Axel Mellinger (accepted)
Chicago (AMO and CM/Bio exp)
Nov. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Holger Mueller
Jan Skotheim
David Biron
Cindy Regal
Hui Deng
Kaijun Jiang
Michael Mark
Andrew Houck
... 		Offered to:
Cindy Regal (declined)
Hui Deng
Clarkson (Bio)
 Short list:
 Maria E. Gracheva
... 		Offered to:
Maria E. Gracheva (accepted)
Clemson (CM exp/th)
 Short list:
 Sumanta Tewari
Byounghak Lee
Hye Jung Kang
Timo Thonhauser
... 		Offered to:
Sumanta Tewari (accepted)
Colorado (Bio)
Nov.15 2007 		Short list:
 Thomas Angelini
Suliana Manley
... 		Offered to:
Suliana Manley
Columbia (AMO exp)
(2006-07 search) 		Short list:
 Tanya Zelevinsky
 ... 		Offered to:
Tanya Zelevinsky (accepted)
Columbia (CM exp)
Jan. 1 2008 		Short list:
 Mumtaz Qazilbash
Abhay Pasupathy
... 		Offered to:
Abhay Pasupathy
Columbia AP (CM exp)
 Short list:
 Maitri Warusawithana
... 		Offered to:
Concordia (Nano exp)
Nov. 1 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Cornell (CM/AMO/Bio exp)
Jan. 1 2008 		Short list:
 Ahmet Yildiz
Hui Deng
Mukund Vengalattore
Weining Man
Will Ryu
Carlos Meriles
... 		Offered to:
Mukund Vengalattore (accepted)
Cornell AEP (Opt/Bio/Nano)
Jan. 1 2008 		Short list:
 Andrew Houck
Abhay Pasupathy
Jen Dionne
Craig Fennie
... 		Offered to:
Abhay Pasupathy
Craig Fennie (accepted)
Andrew Houck (declined)
Cornell (CM th)
Jan. 1 2008 		Short list:
 Shinsei Ryu
Eun-Ah Kim
Markus Muller
Philippe Werner
... 		Offered to:
Eun-Ah Kim (accepted)
CUNY City College in NY (Bio)
 Short list:
 Sacha De Carlo
... 		Offered to:
Sacha De Carlo (accepted)
CUNY Lehman College (Open)
Jan. 28 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
CUNY Queens College (Open)
Nov. 19 2007 		Short list:
 James Higbie
Sumanta Tewari
Diyar Talbayev
Yang Wang
Mumtaz Qazilbash
Andrey Shytov
Lev Murokh
... 		Offered to:
Sumanta Tewari (declined)
Lev Murokh (accepted)
CUNY York College (Open)
Feb. 15 2008 		Short list:
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Denver (Bio exp/comp, 2 positions)
Nov. 16 2007 		Short list:
 David Mobley
Suliana Manley
Kingshuk Ghosh
Arne Gennerich
... 		Offered to:
Arne Gennerich (declined)
Kingshuk Ghosh (accepted)
ETH Zurich (CM exp)
Oct. 31 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Florida State (Nano)
Jan. 2 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
GA Tech (CM/AMO/Bio)
Nov. 30 2007 		Short list:
 Kenneth Burch
Zhigang Jiang
Martin Forstner
Holger Mueller
... 		Offered to:
Zhigang Jiang (accepted)
Holger Mueller (declined)
Grand Valley State (CM/Bio exp)
Nov. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Adelaja Osibote
Roger Miller
Richard Vallery
Erin DePree
... 		Offered to:
Richard Vallery (accepted)
Harvard (CM th)
Jan. 15 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Harvey Mudd (Open)
Dec. 10 2007 		Short list:
 James Higbie
... 		Offered to:
person in another field (accepted)
Idaho (CM th)
Dec. 2 2007 		Short list:
 Timo Thonhauser
Charles Reichhardt
Liudmilla Pohzar
Cynthia Reichhardt
Vito Scarola
... 		Offered to:
Charles Reichhardt (declined)
Vito Scarola (declined)
Illinois Wesleyan (Open - 2 positions)
 Short list:
 Thushara Perera
... 		Offered to:
Thushara Perera (accepted)
Search to be continued next year
Iowa State (CM exp)
Oct. 22 2007 		Short list:
 Arne Gennerich
Guobin Luo
Sanjeevi Sivasankar
Zhigang Jiang
... 		Offered to:
Sanjeevi Sivasankar (accepted)
JILA (AMO)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Andreas Becker
Cindy Regal
... 		Offered to:
Andreas Becker (accepted)
Cindy Regal
JQI (QOpt th)
Jan. 15 2008 		Short list:
 Jake Taylor
Andrew Daley
... 		Offered to:
Jake Taylor (accepted)
Kansas State (AMO exp)
Nov. 26 2007 		Short list:
 Hiromichi Niikura
Thomas Pfeifer
... 		Offered to:
Thomas Pfeifer (declined)
Eleftherios Goulielmakis (declined)
Kansas State (Nano/Bio/CM exp)
Jan. 11 2008 		Short list:
 Brett Flanders
Robert Szoszkiewicz
Alexy Snezhko
... 		Offered to:
Brett Flanders (accepted)
Robert Szoszkiewicz (accepted)
Kentucky (CM exp)
Oct. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Maitri Warusawithana
Dae-Ho Kim
Doug Strachan
... 		Offered to:
Doug Strachan
LBNL (CM th)
Jan. 10 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Leiden (Bio th)
 Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Louisiana State (CM, several positions)
Mar. 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Loyola (Bio/Open)
Dec. 31 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Maine (Nano exp)
Feb. 1 2008 		Short list:
 Robert W. Meulenberg
... 		Offered to:
Manitoba (Bio exp) Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Maryland (CM/Nano exp)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Lam Yu
... 		Offered to:
McGill (Bio exp)
Jan. 7 2008 		Short list:
 Arne Gennerich
David Biron
Guillaume Lenormand
Louis Bouchard
Suliana Manley
Benjamin Smith
Gary Brouhard
... 		Offered to:
Suliana Manley
McMaster (CM exp)
Feb. 4 2008 		Short list:
 Maikel Christian Rheinstadter
Chris Stock
... 		Offered to:
Maikel Christian Rheinstadter
Miami (Bio)
Sep. 30 2007 		Short list:
 Martin Forstner
... 		Offered to:
Michigan (CM/AMO/Bio/open th/exp)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Hui Deng
Abhay Pasupathy
Brian D'Urso
Mattieu Wyart
Vanessa Sih
Markus Muller
... 		Offered to:
Vanessa Sih (accepted)
Michigan State (Open) Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Minnesota (CM exp)
Dec. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Martino Poggio
Maitri Warusawithana
Michael Grobis
Abhay Pasupathy
Jiming Bao
Tatyana Baturina
Roberto Myers
Vanessa Sih
... 		Offered to:
Abhay Pasupathy
Martino Poggio (declined)
Mississippi State (Open/CM/AMO) Short list:
 Paul Larson
Gautam Rupak
... 		Offered to:
Gautam Rupak
Missouri State (CM) Short list:
 Saibal Mitra
 Sung-O Kim
... 		Offered to:
Saibal Mitra (accepted)
Missouri S&T (AMO) Short list:
 Daniel Vrinceanu
... 		Offered to:
MIT (Bio th/exp)
Dec. 17 2007 		Short list:
 Suliana Manley
Jan Skotheim
Jeff Gore
Erel Levine
Ahmet Yildiz
Thomas Gregor
Alfredo Alexander-Katz
... 		Offered to:
Ahmet Yildiz (declined)
Montana State (CM th)
Jan. 16 2008 		Short list:
 Yuriy Pershin
Tami Pereg-Barnea
Sumanta Tewari
Pinaki Sengupta
... 		Offered to:
Nordita (CM th)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
North Carolina (Bio exp, 2 positions)
Nov. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Suliana Manley
Amy Oldenburg
... 		Offered to:
North Carolina (CM th)
Jan. 1 2008 		Short list:
 Nicolas Giovambattista
Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Yuri Popov
senior person
... 		Offered to:
NC State (Bio/Nano)
Nov. 30 2007 		Short list:
 Suliana Manley
Martin Forstner
... 		Offered to:
Northern Iowa(CM/Bio/Opt)
Jan. 7 2008 		Short list:
 Wan Kyu Park
James Rantschler
Vikram Prasad
Vladimir Dobrokhotov
... 		Offered to:
NUI Maynooth (Open th)
Mar. 28 2008 		Short list:
 J.K. Slingerland
... 		Offered to:
J.K. Slingerland
Oklahoma State (Bio/Nano/Optics)
Jan. 15 2008 		Short list:
 Martin Forstner
... 		Offered to:
Martin Forstner (declined)
Old Dominion (CM th)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Charles Reichhardt
Cynthia Reichhardt
Sumanta Tewari
Andrey Shitov
Igor Beloborodov
Mark Jarrell
... 		Offered to:
Ottawa (CM exp)
Dec. 19 2007 		Short list:
 Martin Forstner
... 		Offered to:
Pacific University (CM/Opt exp)
Nov. 30 2007 		Short list:
Andrew Dawes
... 		Offered to:
Andrew Dawes (accepted)
Penn State (AMO, CM th)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Sumanta Tewari
Holger Mueller
Shinsei Ryu
... 		Offered to:
SEARCH POSTPONED
Pittsburgh (QI/Bio)
Dec. 31 2007 		Short list:
 Suliana Manley
... 		Offered to:
Pittsburgh (CM/Nano - 3 positions)
Oct. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Kenan Gundogdu
Brian D'Urso
 Martino Poggio
Maitri Warusawithana
Zhigang Jiang
... 		Offered to:
Brian D'Urso
Zhigang Jiang (declined)
Martino Poggio (declined)
Princeton (CM th)
Mar. 7 2008 		Short list:
 Thomas Gregor
Markus Muller
... 		Offered to:
Purdue (CM exp and Bio exp)
 Short list:
 Yulia Pushkar
Ben Smith
Michael Manfra
Cristian Staii
Sara Vaiana
... 		Offered to:
Rice (AMO th)
Dec. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Lode Pollet
Carlos Lobo
Valdimir Gritsev
Vito Scarola
... 		Offered to:
SEARCH POSTPONED
Rochester (CM exp and Bio exp/th)
 Short list:
 Kenneth Burch
Rupert Lewis
Martin Forstner
Zhigang Jiang
Nikoleta Theodoropoulou
... 		Offered to:
Martin Forstner (declined)
Zhigang Jiang (declined)
San Francisco State (Bio/AMO exp)
Dec. 5 2007 		Short list:
 James Higbie
... 		Offered to:
Santa Clara(QOpt exp)
Nov. 12 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Sherbrooke (CM/nano/bio, exp/th)Nov. 30 2007 Short list:
 Markus Muller
Yuriy Pershin
David Poulin
... 		Offered to:
David Poulin (accepted)
South Carolina (Nano) Short list:
 Timo Thonhauser
Denis Demchenko
Yuriy Pershin
... 		Offered to:
Timo Thonhauser (declined)
Yuriy Pershin (accepted)
Southern Illinois-Carbondale (Bio/Optics exp)
Nov. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Hou-Tong Chen
... 		Offered to:
Hou-Tong Chen
St. Francis Xavier University (Open)
Jan. 7 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
St. Mary's College (Open)
Jan. 2008 		Short list:
 people in other fields
... 		Offered to:
person in another field (accpeted)
Stanford (CM th)
Dec. 31 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Stanford MSE (CM/Nano)
Mar. 1 2008 		Short list:
 Sheng Meng
... 		Offered to:
Syracuse (CM/Bio exp)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Cristian Staii
Suliana Manley
Martin Forstner
... 		Offered to:
Martin Forstner (accepted)
Toronto (CM exp)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Kenneth Burch
Maitri Warusawithana
Alexandre Champagne
Mumtaz Qazilbash
... 		Offered to:
Kenneth Burch (accepted)
Tufts (Nano exp)
Dec. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Weining Man
Cristian Staii
... 		Offered to:
Cristian Staii (accepted)
Tulsa (CM/Nano exp)
Mar. 31 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
Tulane (CM exp)
Oct. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Maitri Warusawithana
Brian D'Urso
Manuel Angst
Dae-Ho Kim
... 		Offered to:
Dae-Ho Kim
UCLA (CM exp)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
UCLA (AMO/QI exp)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Holger Mueller
Eric R. Hudson
... 		Offered to:
Holger Mueller (declined)
Eric R. Hudson
UCLA (CM th)
Apr. 15 2008 		Short list:
 Eun-Ah Kim
Parsa Bonderson
Michael Lawler
... 		Offered to:
Eun-Ah Kim (declined)
Michael Lawler (declined)
UC Merced (CM exp/th)
Nov. 30 2007 		Short list:
 Vanessa Sih
Jigang Wang
James Rantschler
Michael Grobis
Abhay Pasupathy
Lam Yu
... 		Offered to:
Abhay Pasupathy
UC Merced (AMO exp/th)
Nov. 30 2007 		Short list:
 Chuanwei Zhang
James Higbie
Lin Tian
... 		Offered to:
Lin Tian (accepted)
UC Merced (Bio exp/th)
Nov. 30 2007 		Short list:
 Thomas Angelini
David Biron
Arne Gennerich
Alexander Dunn
Erel Levine
... 		Offered to:
Arne Gennerich (declined)
UC Merced (Nano exp/th)
Nov. 30 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
UCSB (CM/Bio exp/th, 2 positions)
Nov. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Abhay Pasupathy
Hui Deng
Matthieu Wyart
Zhigang Jiang
Markus Muller
Valdimir Gritsev
Wang Yao
Matthew Hastings
Carlos Meriles
... 		Offered to:
Abhay Pasupathy
UC Santa Cruz (CM exp)
Dec. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Michael Grobis
Weining Man
Jason Hancock
Zhigang Jiang
Alex Dunn
Vanessa Sih
Richard Robinson
... 		Offered to:
UCSD (senior CM exp)
Dec. 3 2007 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (CM/Opt/Open exp)
Nov. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Diyar Talbayev
Nikoleta Theodoropoulou
Damon Jackson
... 		Offered to:
Diyar Talbayev
UMass-Amherst (CM/Bio exp)
Nov. 9 2007 		Short list:
 Hou-Tong Chen
Irene Dujovne
Martin Forstner
Lam Yu
Suliana Manley
Zhigang Jiang
... 		Offered to:
Zhigang Jiang (declined)
UOIT (Bio/Nano)
Jan. 15 2008 		Short list:
 ... 		Offered to:
USC (Nano/Bio exp)
Jan. 4 2008 		Short list:
 Mohamed El-Naggar
... 		Offered to:
Mohamed El-Naggar (accepted)
Utah (Bio)
Nov. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Arne Gennerich
Sacha De Carlo
... 		Offered to:
Arne Gennerich (declined)
SEARCH CANCELLED
Virginia Commonwealth (CM/Nano exp/th)
Oct. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Kenneth Burch
Hans Wyss
Diyar Talbayev
Semion Saikin
Denis Demchenko
Timo Thonhauser
... 		Offered to:
Kenneth Burch
Timo Thonhauser (declined)
Denis Demchenko (accepted)
Wake Forest(CM th)
Oct. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Tami Pereg-Barnea
Boris Fine
Ewelina Hankiewicz
Timo Thonhauser
Derek Stewart
... 		Offered to:
Tami Pereg-Barnea (declined)
Timo Thonhauser (accepted)
Washington State (Open th)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Sumanta Tewari
Chuanwei Zhang
anonymous, check colloquium schedule
Cynthia Reichhardt
... 		Offered to:
Cynthia Reichhardt (declined)
Chuanwei Zhang (accepted)
Western Illinois (AMO exp)
Nov. 5 2007 		Short list:
 Yanhong Xiao
Sahin Ozdemir
P. K. Babu
... 		Offered to:
P. K. Babu (accepted)
Western Ontario (Nano/Opt)
Feb 29. 2008 		Short list:
 Mark Obrovac
Xiaobin Zhu
Jiming Bao
Aaron Slepkov
Giovanni Fanchini
... 		Offered to:
Willamette University (open exp)
Nov. 28 2007 		Short list:
 Andrew Dawes
... 		Offered to:
Williams (open)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Fred Strauch
James Higbie
... 		Offered to:
Fred Strauch (accepted)
Wyoming (CM)
Oct. 15 2007 		Short list:
 Hou-Tong Chen
Wenyong Wang
... 		Offered to:
Wenyong Wang (accepted)
York (AMO th)
Dec. 1 2007 		Short list:
 Chuanwei Zhang
Tom Kirchner
Jose D'Incao
Stephen Choi
Shai Ronen
... 		Offered to:
Tom Kirchner (accepted)


Faculty shuffle

  FROM TO
Helmut Katzgraber ETH Zurich Texas A&M
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky Nebraska U. Texas at Dallas
Linda Hirst Florida State UC Merced
Simon Billinge Michigan State Columbia
Hongxing Jiang Kansas State Texas Tech
Jingyu Lin Kansas State Texas Tech
Ian Applebaum Delaware Maryland
Lori Goldner NIST UMass Amherst
Keith Schwab Cornell Caltech



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