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Field Key:
Colliders (energy frontier)
Dark matter, direct detection (cosmic frontier)
Neutrino, lepton physics (intensity frontier)
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Last updated May 26, 2021. Recent changes:
Positions outside of the US
Positions in the US
Random Notes
October 6: Edinburgh issuing invitations to interview
October 7: Chicago research assistant professor posting in DO: https://labs.inspirehep.net/jobs/1755865
October 7: Tokyo issuing invitations to interview
October 9: CERN IC issuing invitations to interview
October 19: CERN LD issuing invitations to interview
October 23: Radboud sending rejections
October 30: Liverpool (collider) sending invitations to interview / rejections
November 6: CERN IC offer has been made
November 22: CERN LD (instrumentation) sent invitations to interview / rejections
December 6: Cincinnati scheduling phone interviews
December 10: Indiana sending interview invitations
December 14: Purdue sending Skype interview invitations
December 20: Virginia Tech sending interview invitations
January 7: SDSMT scheduling phone interviews
January 15: Victoria scheduling phone interviews
January 30: Tennessee scheduling phone interviews
February 9: Victoria sending rejections
February 10: Riverside sending interview invitations
February 20: Cambridge sending rejections
February 27: Panofsky sending rejections
March 5: Eotvos sending interview invitations & rejections
March 9: Saclay sending invitations and rejections
March 27: Queen Mary sending rejections
March 30: Alabama search postponed
March 30: Temple search suspended
April 25: Toronto sending rejections
May 4: SLAC neutrino position sending rejections
May 12: Victoria made an offer to a senior candidate
June 4: BNL search cancelled
June 16: FNAL (accelerators) sending interview invitations
June 25: 2020-2021 page created, new jobs will be going there.
July 6: KIT sending interview invitations
July 9: UBC sending rejections
August 10: Tokyo, multiple offers to other fields
August 17: Humboldt University of Berlin has a fixed term opening with the "potential that the position could be tenured"
August 29: Riverside search canceled
January 20, 2021: Ben Nachman was offered SLAC ML position (declined), position now posted on 20-21 page