The LONI Institute , a bold, new, $15 million inter-university collaborative in computational sciences, materials and biology, announces the creation of 12 new faculty positions distributed across its six member universities. Louisiana State University, Louisiana Tech University, Southern University, Tulane University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of New Orleans will hire two new faculty at each university, with searches commencing during the 2007-2008 academic year.
The LONI Institute seeks faculty who can capitalize on Louisiana’s major investments in high-performance computing, networks, visualization, and computational sciences. The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative , or LONI, is a $50 million investment that has deployed 40 Gbit optical networks to each member campus (including medical campuses,) a National Lambda Rail membership connecting it to the national optical network backbone and nearly 100 TeraFlops of locally owned and operated supercomputers. At more than 50 TeraFlops, Loni's centerpiece and largest computer, Queen Bee, will become part of NSF’s TeraGrid in January 2008.
The LONI Institute is searching for faculty who can develop collaborative research programs that exploit the strengths already in place in Louisiana. Faculty at all levels, in any area of computational sciences, materials science, computational biology and structural biology will be considered. Searches will be carried out and appointments will be made at the university level, but we will attempt to coordinate hires to look for synergies between the research areas of the applicants. Existing collaborative groups of faculty may be hired together. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: materials theory and modeling, polymer design, nanocomposites, chip design/fabrication, MEMs, mixed scale flows, metagenomics, computational biofluid mechanics, algorithms and software for complex scientific applications, visualization, distributed data management, scheduling services and scientific computing.
Applicants who wish to be considered for positions at all sites may send their application materials, including a CV, statement of research and teaching interests, and the names of references, to facultypositions@institute.loni.org. More information can be found at the LONI Institute Web site at http://institute.loni.org.
Publish Date:
12-04-2007
