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Computer Resources
CAPS computing resources on the Illinois Campus Cluster
Employment Opportunities
Research Scientist
Job Summary
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) seeks a Research Scientist to join the Astronomy Group. NCSA uses a variety of local, national and cloud-based resources, as well as intellectual resources, to enable large scale observational science, such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES), Rubin Observatory, South Pole Telescope (SPT), CMB-Stage IV, and a number of future projects in development. The scientist will: support, build, and operate ambitious data systems for observational astronomy; engage in scientific collaborations and also the data science and engineering communities to help improve the state-of-the-art in data toolkits and techniques for observational survey science; develop and support challenging data production systems and apply data science techniques to current and future large observational programs; process and analyze data and participate in the overall operations and success of NCSA projects.
For more details, please see Research Scientist Job Description
Fellowship Opportunities
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Our postdoctoral fellowships offer competitive salary, benefits, and research funds. Candidates should have or expect to receive a Ph.D. in astronomy or physics by the start date of the fellowship.
CAPS conducts annual fellowship application opportunities. Please contact info-caps@lists.ncsa.illinois.edu for the next opportunity.
Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Graduate Fellowship
The graduate fellowship includes one year of funding at $30k per year for a stipend (with tuition remission). Computing resources and travel funds for CAPS and NCSA related work are also available to graduate fellows.
CAPS conducts annual fellowship application opportunities. Please contact info-caps@lists.ncsa.illinois.edu for the next opportunity.
Acknowledge CAPS
Affiliation:
Please use this as your affiliation for any publications where research was partially or entirely supported by CAPS:
Center for AstroPhysical Surveys, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
Acknowledgements:
Please use this acknowledgement statement for any publications which utilized CAPS resources either partially or entirely provided by CAPS (e.g. computing, space, funds), etc:
This work was partially supported by the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.