Re: [sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:52 PM, rjf wrote: > Here are some postdocs, some in computational science and parallel > computing. > > https://jobs.llnl.gov/psc/jobs/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/s/WEBLIB_LL.VIEW_JOBS_LL.FieldFormula.IScript_View_Jobs_LL?TITLE=&JOB_CAT=PD&; > > The one that was called to my attention

[sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-21 Thread rjf
Here are some postdocs, some in computational science and parallel computing. https://jobs.llnl.gov/psc/jobs/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/s/WEBLIB_LL.VIEW_JOBS_LL.FieldFormula.IScript_View_Jobs_LL?TITLE=&JOB_CAT=PD&; The one that was called to my attention appears to run for 3 years and pays $90k/ year -- To

[sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-20 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 20, 5:17 pm, Volker Braun wrote: > On Jul 20, 6:51 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > [...] if in the > > future a particular department got a reputation for exploiting its > > post-docs, it would have a harder time hiring people.  Word gets > > around pretty fast. > > I would like to shoot

[sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-20 Thread Volker Braun
On Jul 20, 6:51 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > [...] if in the > future a particular department got a reputation for exploiting its > post-docs, it would have a harder time hiring people.  Word gets > around pretty fast. I would like to shoot down your blind faith in market efficiency :-) http://w

[sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-20 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 20, 1:58 pm, rjf wrote: > The issue to me is the extent to which a person in such a position is > unfairly exploited.   Right. As kcrisman says, this doesn't happen that much in math: we don't have tasks like sequencing DNA or building circuit boards that we can foist off on post-docs or

[sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-20 Thread kcrisman
> The issue to me is the extent to which a person in such a position is > unfairly exploited.  Of course Other posters are correct that in mathematics any short-term position with a 2-2 or less load is usually considered a postdoc of sorts (though at an elite liberal arts college it may be a visi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-20 Thread Tom Boothby
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:58 PM, rjf wrote: > A computer science postdoc would typically be purely research funded. This is an ad for a math postdoc. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@g

[sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-20 Thread rjf
A computer science postdoc would typically be purely research funded. Any teaching would be optional. There are lecturer/ instructor positions with low teaching requirements (for lecturers) that are intended to fund young people so they can do research. There used to be (maybe no longer) Miller as

[sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-20 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 17, 8:18 pm, rjf wrote: > I wouldn't call this a postdoc. It is non-tenure track position that > requires teaching.  The blurb doesn't mention > how much teaching or how much money.  Actually, the ad doesn't call it > a postdoc either. > RJF Whatever the position is officially called (in t

[sage-devel] Re: Univ of Washington postdoc job(s)

2010-07-17 Thread rjf
I wouldn't call this a postdoc. It is non-tenure track position that requires teaching. The blurb doesn't mention how much teaching or how much money. Actually, the ad doesn't call it a postdoc either. RJF On Jul 17, 7:16 am, William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage-Devel, > > Amazingly, University of W