The CMS Fellowship Program at Fermilab (LPC) is designed to help build and maintain the strength of the CMS Collaboration and is made possible by funding from the US DOE, US NSF, and Fermilab.
The LHC Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab seeks applications for CMS Fellowships. These Fellowships were formerly known as LPC Fellowships. We seek CMS members from across the collaboration with a doctorate in particle physics and an established track record of expertise in a specific object and/or physics analysis, or a activity related to the CMS Upgrade. A typical Fellow will have had experience organizing and leading a group of physicists within CMS or another HEP experiment, or have demonstrated the potential to do so. A Fellow will use the resources available at the LPC to make a major contribution to CMS in the areas of physics analysis and/or object development and refinement or a contribution to the CMS Upgrade. The Fellowship provides an outstanding opportunity for young scientists to develop an independent research program. The starting date for each position is negotiable but will be no earlier than August 2012 or later than May 2013.
The LPC serves primarily as a resource and physics analysis hub for the seven hundred US physicists in the CMS collaboration. The LPC offers a vibrant community of CMS scientists from the US and overseas who play leading roles in analysis of data, in the definition and refinement of physics objects, in detector commissioning, and in the design and development of the detector upgrade. There is close and frequent collaboration with the Fermilab theorycommunity. The LPC provides outstanding computing resources and software support personnel. The proximity of the Tier-1 and the Remote Operations Center allow critical real time connections to the experiment. The LPC offers educational workshops in data analysis, and organizes conferences and seminar series.
Successful candidates will ordinarily be resident at the LPC for 50% or more of the duration of the Fellowship. There is a travel budget to enable regular trips to CERN and to conferences to present work. Each position is tenable for a minimum of six months and a maximum of one year, in the first instance. Renewal of the Fellowship is possible but requires a new proposal. The maximum amount of Fellowship support is two years. The Fellowship will support candidates in two scenarios.
Questions about the LPC Fellowship 2012 program may be directed to:
Selection will be made by the LPC Management Board: Darin Acosta, Lothar Bauerdick, Kevin Burkett, Joel Butler, Claudio Campagnari, Rick Cavanaugh, Max Chertok, Daniel Elvira, Sarah Eno, Yuri Gershtein, Nick Hadley, Joe Incandela, Boaz Klima, Greg Landsberg, Patty McBride, Meenakshi Narain, Gigi Rolandi, and Ian Shipsey.