Collection of links/info for job search 2017
Jobs from AAS register and PhysicsToday other sources:
[updated: 5 Jul 2017;
11/13/15/22/26/28 Sep 2017;
2/12/17/23/25/30 Oct 2017;
1/13/20/28/30 Nov 2017;
3/11/21/29 Dec 2017;
8/16/26 Jan 2018;
1/5/6/8/13/16/23 Feb 2018;
13 Apr 2018]
Brief summary as of Feb 16:
Applied to 41 positions
10 phone/skype interviews/requests (3 faculty (2 uni, 1 college), 5 postdocs, 1 obs staff, 1 lab inst)
33 unlikely/impossible (12 actual rejections)
4 with a chance still (2 w/ interviews, 2 w/ nothing)
1 offer accepted!
(grey text means application deadline has passed - strikethrough means submitted)
Goal: end up in North America (eventually)
at the least, get real teaching experience, and move in a direction toward N America
My PhD date: June 2015
Research proposals to develop:
ESO (Oct 15) -- Garching / Santiago
project ideas, using ESO facilities.
---xGASS follow-up of group centrals. Pick matched sample of grp and iso centrals at low masses:
IFUs for ionized gas and stellar kinematics, and abundances???
deep optical imaging for evidence of past interactions and merger history
HI interferometry if possible...
---Followup of ALFALFA sources:
spectroscopic abundances of dwarf galaxies for M-Z relation (low mass slope)
narrow-band Halpha imaging for SFR (UV vs Halpha vs SED, trends with HI, Z, ??)
optical/IR counterparts/properties of (Almost) Darks?
spectroscopic redshifts for environment of Almost Darks? SDSS doesn't have redshifts faint enough
Hubble (Nov 2) - hosted at Macalaster/Minnesota
project ideas: (meet goals of HST/JWST/SOFIA/Spitzer)
---SFH of ALFALFA-selected sources (SHIELD, A/Ds, Leoncino-clones, etc)
---have HST for many, with SFH possibly in progress
---use broadband SED fitting
---more HST imaging & followup of A/Ds???
[Requires PhD after Jan 1 2015 -- last year of eligibility]
Carnegie Obs (Nov 15) - Pasadena. Propose to do something (ground-based) observational!
project ideas: ("long-term research in obs/theo astrophys and/or instr")
---QBCDs? (dwarf) galaxy photometry in new deep optical/NIR surveys, calibrate with new observations? add metallicities?
---spectra of low-Z galaxies like Leo P?
---other ALFALFA-related followup?
[PhD <3yr prefer]
Also, lots of great NIR surveys coming out now/soon -- QBCD project gets a lot more interesting with those.
Nopes, Out of Reach, bad location, or not worth the large effort required (for unlikely success)
--NSF AAPF - Oct 11
--Jansky - hosted at university (Macalester? teaching connections/future...)
(Nov ~1) project: followup to xGASS work?? GV + env? VLA obs of grp cent and GV, understand inflow/quenching/env.
[no PhD year limit?]
Smith @ UTAustin (fresh PhDs only)
Dunlap @ Toronto (theory/cosmo)
not great fit:
dropped - tough sell:
req french, not great research fit
machine learning? hmmm
to farr away:
not worth it? hopefully...
too far afield, topically
location :(
no research overlaps
didn't make compelling project plans in time
not career path of choice, if possible
bad location
no research overlap, physics teaching.
physics teaching - boo
Dunlap Fellowship