bokg@cs.umu.se (Bo K}gstr|m) (03/02/90)
Hello there, I would very much appreciate if you could make this announcement known to as many people as possible (via email, newsletter, etc). THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! If you are interested to apply for the position ot for a visiting position so do not hesitate to contact me! Dead-line is March 31, 1990. Regards, Bo Kagstrom For full address (including email) see the announcement! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement of SWEDEN's first chair as professor in Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing at University of Umea in Sweden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Umea university is a young university that lies at the mouth of the river Ume, equidistant from both the capital, Stockholm, and Sweden+s most northerly town Kiruna. Today the campus has some 3 000 employees and 11 000 students. The university has achieved prominence in many fields, of which bio-technology, environmental ecology and information technology are some of those in which now intensive activity is taking place. Expertise in the field of information technology in its broadest sense is rapidily growing and in certain areas such as Scientific computing great progress has already been made, and international collaboration established, primarily with European and American researchers. A couple of years ago a special action program for Information technology - Scientific Computing was established at the faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. The program aims towards development of advanced methods, algorithms and software in Scientific computing for different parallel computer architectures. The university is together with the Technical University of Lulea, the Institute of Space Physics i Kiruna and the Industrial Development Center in Skelleftea, founder of Supercomputer Center North (SDCN). SDCN is one of two national centers for supercomputing in Sweden and is connected to all swedish universities through the Swedish University Network (SUNET). Thereby scientists have access to an IBM 3090-600 E/VF, placed in Skelleftea, soon to be upgraded to a 600 S-model. At the university we have a distributed-memory multiprocessor-system Intel iPSC/2 hypercube with 64 nodes of which 16 nodes have a vector facility and are about to aquire a shared-memory multiprocessor-system with both high-performance computing power and advanced graphic facilities for visualization. Due to the partnership in SDCN Sweden+s first chair as professor in Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing is now established at the university. The field is very wide and interdisciplinary to its nature and candidates for the chair can have different scientific profiles ranging from research in tools and methods for Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing to graphics computing and visualization in Scientific Computing with an emphasis on applications from biology, biotechnology, chemistry, physics and medicine. At the university we have applications/possible applications in for instance biotechnology - molecular biology, chemometry, environmental chemistry, geographical information systems, industrial design, medicine, physical chemistry, psychology, theoretical physics and space physics. The professorship is placed at the department of Computing Science. At the department there are professors in numerical analysis, computer science, and numerical analysis and parallel computing. Since a couple of years there has been an intense development of knowledge in the fields of parallel computing and environments and tools for parallel computer architectures. The university now announces a professorship in Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing as vacant, reference number DNR 321-189-90. Notice that the reference number must be mentioned on the application. To get started in the field as soon as possible the position can also be a visiting professorship. Send the application to University of Umea, S-901 87, Sweden before the 30th of March 1990. Enclosed to the application should be curriculum vitae, short summary of scientific and educational work, and publications and ev interest of a visiting professorship. Everything in 4 copies!! Questions will be answered by Professor Bo Kagstrom, Dept of Computing Science, Umea University, S-901 87 Umea, phone +46-9016 54 19, email bokg@biovax.umdc.umu.se (or na.kagstrom@na-net.stanford.edu) or by Project coordinator Torbjorn Johansson, Supercomputer Center North, Umea University, S-901 87 Umea, phone +46-9016 65 85, email tojo@biovax.umdc.umu.se.