Theoretical Particle Physics Jobs Rumor Mill

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2002 Junior Faculty Jobs:
Austin (U. Texas)

Short List:
Raphael Bousso
Nemanja Kaloper
2 more senior people

Offered To:
Raphael Bousso (declined)

Berkeley

Short List:
Raphael Bousso
Andrew Chamblin
Jaume Gomis
Albion Lawrence

Offered To:
Raphael Bousso (accepted)

Boston(cont. from 2001)

Short List:
Csaba Csaki
Bogdan Dobrescu
Jonathan Feng
Leonardo Giusti
Nir Polonsky
Yuri Shirman
more senior person
...

Offered To:
Martin Schmaltz (accepted)

Boulder

Short List:
Per Berglund
Michael Gutperle
Nemanja Kaloper
Gary Shiu
...

Offered To:
Gary Shiu (declined)
search postponed

Brandeis

Short List:
Mina Aganagic
Jaume Gomis
Michael Gutperle
Nemanja Kaloper
Albion Lawrence
Sanjaye Ramgoolam

Offered To:
Albion Lawrence (accepted)

British Columbia

Short List:
four candidates
in other fields

Offered To:
astronomer (declined)
search postponed

Buffalo

Short List:
Sanjaye Ramgoolam
Kirill Melnikov
Doreen Wackeroth
Yuri Shirman
Ren-Jie Zhang
...

Offered To:
Doreen Wackeroth (accepted)

Davis

Short List:
Daniel Chung
Nemanja Kaloper
...

Offered To:
Nemanja Kaloper (accepted)

Duke (cont. from 2001)

Short List:
Jinn-Wei Chen
Hans-Werner Hammer
Thomas Mehen
more senior person

Offered To:
more senior person (declined)
Thomas Mehen (accepted)

Fermilab (two jobs)

Short List:
Tom Blum
Hsin-Chia Cheng
Bogdan Dobrescu
Gregory Gabadadze
Yasunori Nomura
Kirill Melnikov
Tilman Plehn
Ren-Jie Zhang
...

Offered To:
Yasunori Nomura (accepted)
Bogdan Dobrescu (accepted)

Florida International (cont. from 2001)

Short List:
Weon Jong Lee

Offered To:
Weon Jong Lee (declined)

Florida International

Short List:
Rajamani Narayanan

Offered To:
Rajamani Narayanan

Hawaii

Short List:
Gustavo Burdman
David E. Kaplan
Graham Kribs
Kirill Melnikov
Yuri Shirman
Ren-Jie Zhang
...

Offered To:
David E. Kaplan (declined)
Kirill Melnikov (accepted)

Illinois

Short List:
Jing Wang
...

Offered To:
search cancelled

Johns Hopkins

Short List:
Michael Gutperle
David E. Kaplan
Albion Lawrence
Iain Stewart
Neal Weiner
...

Offered To:
Iain Stewart (declined)
David E. Kaplan (accepted)

Kentucky (cont. from 2001)

Short List:
senior person

Offered To:
Sumit Das (accepted)

Los Alamos (2 Feynman Fellowships)

Short List:
Yuri Shirman
Alex Friedland

Offered To:
Yuri Shirman (accepted)
Alex Friedland (accepted)

Maryland (two jobs, no deadline)

Short List:
Gunnar Bali
Gabriela Barenboim
Tom Blum
Zacharia Chacko
Bogdan Dobrescu
David E. Kaplan
Yuri Shirman
a more senior person
...

Offered To:
David E. Kaplan (declined)
search cancelled

Massachusetts (Amherst)

Short List:

Offered To:
search cancelled

McGill

Short List:
Mina Aganagic
Zacharia Chacko
Andrew Chamblin
Guy Moore
Gary Shiu
Ren-Jie Zhang
...

Offered To:
Gary Shiu (declined)
Guy Moore (accepted)

Michigan

Short List:
Tobias Hurth
Yuri Shirman
Iain Stewart
Neal Weiner
more senior people
...

Offered To:
James Wells (accepted)

Middlebury College

Short List:
Noah Graham
...

Offered To:
Noah Graham (accepted)

MIT

Short List:
Silas Beane
Raphael Bousso
Bogdan Dobrescu
David E. Kaplan
Kirill Melnikov
Guy Moore
Yasunori Nomura
Witold Skiba
Iain Stewart
Doreen Wackeroth
...

Offered To:
Raphael Bousso (declined)
Iain Stewart (accepted)

Notre Dame

Short List:
Gabriela Barenboim
Daniel Chung
...

Offered To:
search postponed

Northeastern

Short List:
Gabriela Barenboim
Gregory Gabadadze
Michael Gutperle
Yuri Shirman
Ren-Jie Zhang
...

Offered To:
experimentalist (accepted)

Pittsburgh

Short List:
Bogdan Dobrescu
Sean Fleming
Paolo Gondolo
Adam Leibovich
Kirill Melnikov
Dan Pirjol
Witold Skiba
...

Offered To:
Bogdan Dobrescu (declined)
Adam Leibovich (accepted)

Princeton

Short List:
Leonardo Rastelli
...

Offered To:
Leonardo Rastelli (accepted)

Regina

Short List:
Gunnar Bali
Andrei Belistky
Jinn-Wei Chen
Bhaskar Dutta
Kirill Melnikov

Offered To:
Bhaskar Dutta (accepted)

Simon Fraser

Short List:
Gary Shiu
Guy Moore
Ken Olum
people in other fields
...

Offered To:
Gary Shiu (declined)
people in other fields (accepted)

SLAC (cont. from 2001)

Short List:
3 more senior people

Offered To:
Nima Arkani-Hamed

Texas A&M (updated ad)

Short List:
Bhaskar Dutta
Ren-Jie Zhang
...

Offered To:

Texas, Pan American

Short List:
Alakabha Datta
...

Offered To:
search cancelled

Toronto

Short List:
Mina Aganagic
Kentaro Hori
Albion Lawrence
Calin Lazaroiu
...

Offered To:
Kentaro Hori (accepted)

UCLA

Short List:
Michael Gutperle
Albion Lawrence
Leonardo Rastelli
...

Offered To:
Michael Gutperle (accepted)

Victoria (cont. from 2001)

Short List:
Sacha Davidson
Nemanja Kaloper
Graham Kribs
Maxim Pospelov
...

Offered To:
Nemanja Kaloper (declined)
Maxim Pospelov (accepted)

Waterloo (no deadline)

Short List:

Offered To:

Washington

Short List:
Mina Aganagic
Michael Gutperle
Nemanja Kaloper
Matt Strassler
...

Offered To:
Matt Strassler (accepted)
Mina Aganagic (accepted)

Washington

Short List:

Offered To:

Washington U. (St. Louis)

Short List:
Tom Blum
Daniel Chung
Bogdan Dobrescu
Guy Moore
Mark Alford
...

Offered To:
Mark Alford (accepted)
Daniel Chung (declined)

Wisconsin

Short List:
Mina Aganagic
Arthur Hebecker
Nemanja Kaloper
Albion Lawrence
Yuri Shirman
Gary Shiu
...

Offered To:
more senior person
Mina Aganagic (declined)
Gary Shiu (accepted)

Wisconsin (astro)

Short List:
Ted Baltz
John Beacom
Daniel Chung
Chris Fryer
Tomislav Prokopec
...

Offered To:
more senior person (declined)
Daniel Chung (accepted)

Yale (three jobs)

Short List:
Raphael Bousso
Gustavo Burdman
Hsin-Chia Cheng
Bogdan Dobrescu
Michael Gutperle
Nemanja Kaloper
Albion Lawrence
Hong Liu
Witek Skiba
Vijay Balasubramanian
more senior person
...

Offered To:
Vijay Balasubramanian (declined)
Raphael Bousso (declined)
Witek Skiba (accepted)
more senior person (declined)
Faculty Shuffle:

Mark Alford: Glasgow ---> Washington U.

Sumit Das: on leave from Tata ---> Kentucky

Boris Kayser: NSF ---> Fermilab

Raymond Laflamme: LANL ---> Perimeter

Juan Maldacena: Harvard ---> IAS Princeton

Lisa Randall: MIT ---> Harvard

Martin Schmaltz: Fermilab ---> Boston U.

Dam Thanh Son: Columbia ---> INT (Seattle)

Matt Strassler: U. Pennsylvania ---> U. Washington (Seattle)

James Wells: Davis ---> Michigan

Uwe-Jens Wiese: on leave from MIT ---> Bern
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Austin (U. Texas)
Short List: Raphael Bousso Nemanja Kaloper 2 more senior people	Offered To: Raphael Bousso (declined)

Berkeley
Short List: Raphael Bousso Andrew Chamblin Jaume Gomis Albion Lawrence	Offered To: Raphael Bousso (accepted)

Boston(cont. from 2001)
Short List: Csaba Csaki Bogdan Dobrescu Jonathan Feng Leonardo Giusti Nir Polonsky Yuri Shirman more senior person ...	Offered To: Martin Schmaltz (accepted)

Boulder
Short List: Per Berglund Michael Gutperle Nemanja Kaloper Gary Shiu ...	Offered To: Gary Shiu (declined) search postponed

Brandeis
Short List: Mina Aganagic Jaume Gomis Michael Gutperle Nemanja Kaloper Albion Lawrence Sanjaye Ramgoolam	Offered To: Albion Lawrence (accepted)

British Columbia
Short List: four candidates in other fields	Offered To: astronomer (declined) search postponed

Buffalo
Short List: Sanjaye Ramgoolam Kirill Melnikov Doreen Wackeroth Yuri Shirman Ren-Jie Zhang ...	Offered To: Doreen Wackeroth (accepted)

Davis
Short List: Daniel Chung Nemanja Kaloper ...	Offered To: Nemanja Kaloper (accepted)

Duke (cont. from 2001)
Short List: Jinn-Wei Chen Hans-Werner Hammer Thomas Mehen more senior person	Offered To: more senior person (declined) Thomas Mehen (accepted)

Fermilab (two jobs)
Short List: Tom Blum Hsin-Chia Cheng Bogdan Dobrescu Gregory Gabadadze Yasunori Nomura Kirill Melnikov Tilman Plehn Ren-Jie Zhang ...	Offered To: Yasunori Nomura (accepted) Bogdan Dobrescu (accepted)

Florida International (cont. from 2001)
Short List: Weon Jong Lee	Offered To: Weon Jong Lee (declined)

Florida International
Short List: Rajamani Narayanan	Offered To: Rajamani Narayanan

Hawaii
Short List: Gustavo Burdman David E. Kaplan Graham Kribs Kirill Melnikov Yuri Shirman Ren-Jie Zhang ...	Offered To: David E. Kaplan (declined) Kirill Melnikov (accepted)

Illinois
Short List: Jing Wang ...	Offered To: search cancelled

Johns Hopkins
Short List: Michael Gutperle David E. Kaplan Albion Lawrence Iain Stewart Neal Weiner ...	Offered To: Iain Stewart (declined) David E. Kaplan (accepted)

Kentucky (cont. from 2001)
Short List: senior person	Offered To: Sumit Das (accepted)

Los Alamos (2 Feynman Fellowships)
Short List: Yuri Shirman Alex Friedland	Offered To: Yuri Shirman (accepted) Alex Friedland (accepted)

Maryland (two jobs, no deadline)
Short List: Gunnar Bali Gabriela Barenboim Tom Blum Zacharia Chacko Bogdan Dobrescu David E. Kaplan Yuri Shirman a more senior person ...	Offered To: David E. Kaplan (declined) search cancelled

Massachusetts (Amherst)
Short List:	Offered To: search cancelled

McGill
Short List: Mina Aganagic Zacharia Chacko Andrew Chamblin Guy Moore Gary Shiu Ren-Jie Zhang ...	Offered To: Gary Shiu (declined) Guy Moore (accepted)

Michigan
Short List: Tobias Hurth Yuri Shirman Iain Stewart Neal Weiner more senior people ...	Offered To: James Wells (accepted)

Middlebury College
Short List: Noah Graham ...	Offered To: Noah Graham (accepted)

MIT
Short List: Silas Beane Raphael Bousso Bogdan Dobrescu David E. Kaplan Kirill Melnikov Guy Moore Yasunori Nomura Witold Skiba Iain Stewart Doreen Wackeroth ...	Offered To: Raphael Bousso (declined) Iain Stewart (accepted)

Notre Dame
Short List: Gabriela Barenboim Daniel Chung ...	Offered To: search postponed

Northeastern
Short List: Gabriela Barenboim Gregory Gabadadze Michael Gutperle Yuri Shirman Ren-Jie Zhang ...	Offered To: experimentalist (accepted)

Pittsburgh
Short List: Bogdan Dobrescu Sean Fleming Paolo Gondolo Adam Leibovich Kirill Melnikov Dan Pirjol Witold Skiba ...	Offered To: Bogdan Dobrescu (declined) Adam Leibovich (accepted)

Princeton
Short List: Leonardo Rastelli ...	Offered To: Leonardo Rastelli (accepted)

Regina
Short List: Gunnar Bali Andrei Belistky Jinn-Wei Chen Bhaskar Dutta Kirill Melnikov	Offered To: Bhaskar Dutta (accepted)

Simon Fraser
Short List: Gary Shiu Guy Moore Ken Olum people in other fields ...	Offered To: Gary Shiu (declined) people in other fields (accepted)

SLAC (cont. from 2001)
Short List: 3 more senior people	Offered To: Nima Arkani-Hamed

Texas A&M (updated ad)
Short List: Bhaskar Dutta Ren-Jie Zhang ...	Offered To:

Texas, Pan American
Short List: Alakabha Datta ...	Offered To: search cancelled

Toronto
Short List: Mina Aganagic Kentaro Hori Albion Lawrence Calin Lazaroiu ...	Offered To: Kentaro Hori (accepted)

UCLA
Short List: Michael Gutperle Albion Lawrence Leonardo Rastelli ...	Offered To: Michael Gutperle (accepted)

Victoria (cont. from 2001)
Short List: Sacha Davidson Nemanja Kaloper Graham Kribs Maxim Pospelov ...	Offered To: Nemanja Kaloper (declined) Maxim Pospelov (accepted)

Waterloo (no deadline)
Short List:	Offered To:

Washington
Short List: Mina Aganagic Michael Gutperle Nemanja Kaloper Matt Strassler ...	Offered To: Matt Strassler (accepted) Mina Aganagic (accepted)

Washington
Short List:	Offered To:

Washington U. (St. Louis)
Short List: Tom Blum Daniel Chung Bogdan Dobrescu Guy Moore Mark Alford ...	Offered To: Mark Alford (accepted) Daniel Chung (declined)

Wisconsin
Short List: Mina Aganagic Arthur Hebecker Nemanja Kaloper Albion Lawrence Yuri Shirman Gary Shiu ...	Offered To: more senior person Mina Aganagic (declined) Gary Shiu (accepted)

Wisconsin (astro)
Short List: Ted Baltz John Beacom Daniel Chung Chris Fryer Tomislav Prokopec ...	Offered To: more senior person (declined) Daniel Chung (accepted)

Yale (three jobs)
Short List: Raphael Bousso Gustavo Burdman Hsin-Chia Cheng Bogdan Dobrescu Michael Gutperle Nemanja Kaloper Albion Lawrence Hong Liu Witek Skiba Vijay Balasubramanian more senior person ...	Offered To: Vijay Balasubramanian (declined) Raphael Bousso (declined) Witek Skiba (accepted) more senior person (declined)

Mark Alford:	Glasgow	--->	Washington U.
Sumit Das:	on leave from Tata	--->	Kentucky
Boris Kayser:	NSF	--->	Fermilab
Raymond Laflamme:	LANL	--->	Perimeter
Juan Maldacena:	Harvard	--->	IAS Princeton
Lisa Randall:	MIT	--->	Harvard
Martin Schmaltz:	Fermilab	--->	Boston U.
Dam Thanh Son:	Columbia	--->	INT (Seattle)
Matt Strassler:	U. Pennsylvania	--->	U. Washington (Seattle)
James Wells:	Davis	--->	Michigan
Uwe-Jens Wiese:	on leave from MIT	--->	Bern