Subject: [SIAM-SC] Meet KAUST, KAUST-IBM, and KAUST-UCSD at Supercomputing'08
From: David Keyes <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:05:12 -0500 (EST)
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Dear Colleagues in SIAG-CSE and SIAG-SC:

Please stop by KAUST's booth at Supercomputing'08 to talk about its 
recently announced research partnerships with IBM in high-performance 
computing -- built around Shaheen -- and UCSD in advanced visualization -- 
built around Cornea -- as well as its on-campus research and degree 
programs.

Wrote a European colleague to me recently, "We were intrigued and of 
course positively surprised to see that computational science got such a 
prominent place at [KAUST].  That is of course very wise, but it is also a 
brave move."

If you agree, then know that KAUST is recruiting! KAUST, the KAUST-IBM 
Center for Deep Computing, and the KAUST-UCSD Center for Geometric 
Modeling and Scientific Visualization are recruiting computational 
scientists and engineers at all levels, including, of course 
full-fellowship Masters and Doctoral students.

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is being 
established on the shores of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia as an 
international graduate-level research university. As an independent and 
merit-based institution with the highest endowment-per-student worldwide, 
KAUST will enable researchers from around the globe to collaborate on 
challenges in energy conversion and resources, environment, and 
agriculture, as well as on basic science and engineering research required 
to pursue this applied agenda. KAUST's strongly computational research 
portfolio and curriculum is supported by world-class on-campus petascale 
computing and visualization resources, and through collaborations with IBM 
Research and many top research universities.

KAUST invites applications for instructional and research faculty 
positions at all ranks. A Ph.D. in the Mathematical Sciences, Computer 
Science, Computational Science & Engineering, or a related field, evidence 
of the ability to pursue a world-class program of research, and (for 
instructional faculty) a strong commitment to graduate teaching are 
required. KAUST's multi-billion- dollar campus and residential village of 
12,000 on the Red Sea is scheduled to open in September 2009; meanwhile 
successful hires will spend six months or more at IBM Research, Stanford 
University or another KAUST partner.

Instructional faculty may apply through Stanford 
(cs.stanford.edu/info/jobs#job2) or through the KAUST-IBM Center (Go to 
www.kaust.edu.sa/, click on "Employment" and set the keyword "USA" for job 
location). Research faculty and staff may apply through the KAUST-IBM 
Center or through the directors of one of KAUST's 11 other research 
centers, as described at the KAUST site.

For relevant press releases, please see

http://www.kaust.edu.sa/news-releases/king-abdullah-university-and-ibm-build-supercomputer.aspx

http://www.kaust.edu.sa/news-releases/ucsd-mou.aspx
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