{"id":2687,"date":"2016-03-19T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T21:35:04","slug":"a-postdoc-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2687","title":{"rendered":"A postdoc post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize that this announcement is late in this year&#8217;s hiring season, but here goes. \u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0seeking\u00a0postdocs in computational complexity and\/or\u00a0quantum information science to join me at UT Austin starting in Fall of 2016. \u00a0As I <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2620\">mentioned before<\/a>, there&#8217;s a wonderful CS theory group at UT that you can work with and benefit from, including Adam Klivans, David Zuckerman, Anna Gal, Vijaya Ramachandran, Brent Waters, Eric Price, Greg Plaxton, and of course my wife Dana Moshkovitz, who will be joining UT as well. \u00a0If you&#8217;re interested, please email me a CV and a short cover letter, and ask your PhD adviser and one or two others to email me recommendation letters. \u00a0The postdoc would be for two years by default.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Update (March 26):<\/b><\/font> If you want to be considered for next year, please get your application to me by March 31st.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Another Update:<\/b><\/font> I&#8217;m very honored, along with fourteen others, to have received a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News-Article-View\/Article\/704082\/dod-announces-national-security-science-and-engineering-faculty-fellows\">2016 US National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF)<\/a>, which supports unclassified basic research related in some way to DoD interests.  My project is called &#8220;Paths to Quantum Supremacy.&#8221;  Now that my Waterman award has basically been spent down, this is where much of the funding for quantum computing initiatives at UT Austin will come from for the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize that this announcement is late in this year&#8217;s hiring season, but here goes. \u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0seeking\u00a0postdocs in computational complexity and\/or\u00a0quantum information science to join me at UT Austin starting in Fall of 2016. \u00a0As I mentioned before, there&#8217;s a wonderful CS theory group at UT that you can work with and benefit from, including Adam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}