From owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Oct 5 01:57:45 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1BADB17AC3; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 01:57:41 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6024) id 2F37F17AC2; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 01:57:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8008D415DA; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 01:57:39 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id BAA29060; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 01:57:39 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f X-Newsgroups: bionet.info-theory,bionet.molbio.proteins,bionet.biophysics,bionet.xtallography Subject: Post doc in Australia with Andrew Torda, biomolecular calculations Reply-To: Andrew.Torda@anu.edu.au Organization: Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University X-Newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test50 (13 Dec 96) From: torda@rsc.anu.edu.au (Andrew Torda) X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.35.97 Message-ID: <39dbd1fc@clarion.carno.net.au> Date: 5 Oct 2000 11:57:32 +1000 X-Trace: 5 Oct 2000 11:57:32 +1000, 150.203.35.97 Lines: 58 To: bio-info@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk, biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk, proteins@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk, xtal-log@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk POST DOCTORAL POSITION in Canberra, Australia with Andrew Torda. Each year, the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University has a series of post-doctoral fellowships awarded on a competitive basis. Applications for the current round will be taken until about Oct 31 2000. Starting dates are negotiable. There are positions in several groups. This ad describes my group. The research group of Andrew Torda is oriented towards biomolecular calculation and simulation. We are working in areas such as low-resolution (protein fold recognition) force fields and mixing knowledge-based force fields and experimental data. Most recent work has moved towards the border of the high fashion area, bioinformatics and the nice reliable area of force fields. We are a Boltzmann-free zone (our force fields are much more entertaining). Have a look at http://www.rsc.anu.edu.au/~torda If you follow the link to publications, it will give you an idea of recent work. There is also a link to an HTML version of this text. All the projects in the group involve coding - not just applications. It would be an advantage to have a reasonable knowledge of data structures and algorithms and programming experience in a civilized language (not fortran). Some knowledge of graph theory would not be a disadvantage. Salary: A$39,316 - A$47,444 per annum. Grants are provided towards travel and removal. Positions are initially for two years with a likely extension to a third year. The Research School of Chemistry is part of the Institute of Advanced Studies which runs special research schools, in parallel to the normal teaching schools, and without any undergraduate teaching duties. The university is in the centre of Canberra (the nation's capital). Given the research orientation of the school, there is a lively academic environment. We have close contacts with the school's other theoretical groups in statistical mechanics, quantum chemistry and chemical physics. From the point of view of experimental groups, we maintain close ties to the school's NMR, X-ray crystallography and molecular biology groups. A final application must reach the school office by slow mail, but initially, contact me directly. The formal advertisement is at http://www.rsc.anu.edu.au/RSC/Positions/AcademicPositions/PDFadvert_sep2000.html ------------ Andrew Torda Research School of Chemistry, ANU, ACT 0200, Australia Andrew.Torda@anu.edu.au http://www.rsc.anu.edu.au/~torda .