Wednesday, January 20, 2016

[DMANET] Ph.D. position, School of Computing, Clemson University

We are looking for an excellent candidate for a Ph.D. position in the
School of Computing at Clemson University beginning Fall 2016. The
candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Ilya Safro on
combinatorial scientific computing, and large-scale discrete optimization.
Some projects will include collaboration with national labs.

The ideal candidate should have a solid background in
- theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, algorithms
- numerical methods (in particular, in linear algebra)
- C/C++

Some experience in the following areas will be considered as an advantage
(not mandatory)
- HPC and parallel programming/MPI/OpenMP/Hadoop
- multigrid
- scientific computing libraries (such as PETSc)

Please apply online at
http://www.clemson.edu/graduate/admissions/apply/application.html

The School of Computing has 42 faculty members, more than 400 undergraduate
majors, and over 200 graduate students collectively across its three
divisions: Computer Science, Visual Computing, and Human-Centered
Computing. Clemson University is located in Clemson, South Carolina, a
college town on beautiful Lake Hartwell at the foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains, conveniently situated within a 2hr drive from both Atlanta and
Charlotte. Clemson has an enrollment of approximately 20,000. U.S. News &
World Report has ranked Clemson in the Top 20 nationally among public
universities, and Clemson ranks number 5 among U.S. universities in
supercomputing.

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Ilya Safro
School of Computing
Clemson University
http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~isafro
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