2014-2015

This is the 2015 HEP-Experiment faculty rumor mill. No guarantees of accuracy here.

The 2015-2016 rumor page is live. The 2014-2015 page will remain the default landing page until September.

To submit rumors, or to help fill in missing information from past years, email hepexrumor [at] gmail [dot] com or fill in the form below. If you submit a rumor via the form and it's not posted within a few days, or your rumor is removed, feel free to email to find out why.

Last updated August 2, 2017. Recent changes:

• New posts:

• Short lists:

• Offers:

• Faculty shuffle: Hiro Tanaka, UBC -> Toronto

• Corrections:

• Random notes (see below the table):

Other random notes:

• • Iowa State is scheduling Skype pre-interviews (Dec. 7)

  • Michigan has started sending rejection letters (Dec. 16)

  • Niels Bohr sending rejection letters (Dec. 23)

  • Wilson Fellowship sending invitations/rejections (Dec. 27)

  • MIT sending invitations/rejections (Jan. 16)

  • Washington sending rejections (Feb. 8)

  • Fermi/NOvA sending rejections (Feb. 8)

  • Fermi/CD sending rejections (Feb. 17)

  • UCSC sending rejections (Feb. 18)

  • Purdue (Big data) doing phone interviews (Feb. 23)

  • Iowa State makes an offer (Feb. 24)

  • McGill doing interviews (Feb. 27)

  • DESY sending rejections (Mar. 3)

  • KIT doing Skype interviews (Mar. 6)

  • Princeton sending rejection letters (Mar. 13)

  • Are Mainz and KIT tenure-track positions? (Apr. 17)

    • Technically no, but they appear to be somewhere past "postdoc" on the road to tenure in Germany. (Apr. 18)

    • They'll stay on the list for this year, but please submit your comments on whether to track such positions in the future. (Apr. 19)

    • Thanks for your votes: these positions will likely be omitted in the future. (Apr. 28)

  • Lancaster sending rejections (Apr. 24)

  • Baylor sends rejections (May 15)

  • Helsinki doing Skype interviews (June 11)

  • Both Irvine searches postponed to next year (June 23)

  • "Any idea who got the other Fermi Nova position? Inquiring minds want to know." (July 8)

    • The second Fermi/Nova position was converted into the Fermi/neutrino position, accepted by Matt Toups (July 13)