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Subject: Post-Doc position available at UC Santa Cruz

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:01:29 -0700

From: Peter Young <peter@physics.ucsc.edu>

To: Peter Young <peter@physics.ucsc.edu>

I have an post-doctoral opening at the University of California Santa Cruz in the field of computational statistical physics. The main area of interest is to use simulations to study the "quantum adiabatic algorithm" which has been proposed for a quantum computer to solve a broad range of optimization problems, for recent work see arXiv: 0910.1378 and arXiv:0803.3971 (Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170503 (2008)). Another area of interest is phase transitions in spin glasses.

Experience with numerical techniques is necessary. Prior experience with Monte Carlo methods would be useful but not essential.

Interested candidates should send an application to me at

peter@physics.ucsc.edu

and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address.

The position is available now. However, if no suitable candidate is available, I will wait to fill it until summer/autumn, so please also bring this position to the attention of students who expect to graduate next summer.

Sincerely,

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Peter Young

Address: Physics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

e-mail : peter@physics.ucsc.edu

WWW : http://physics.ucsc.edu/~peter

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