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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> neutron-bounces@neutronsources.org [mailto:neutron-bounces@neutronsources.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Yang Zhang<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 18 October 2016 3:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> neutron@neutronsources.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Neutron] Postdoc Positions on Non-Equilibrium Matter at UIUC<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Postdoc Positions in Non-Equilibrium Matter at UIUC</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>(updated: October 17, 2016)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Motivated and ambitious postdoctoral researchers are invited to join Prof. Yang Zhang’s research group in the area of <u>Non-Equilibrium Matter</u> at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Our research focuses on the study of<b> non-equilibrium matter </b>using integrated <i>atomistic theory, modeling, and simulation </i>and <i>neutron and synchrotron light experimental probes</i>. The structure and dynamics of these systems are either inherently complex or driven out of equilibrium by extreme conditions. In particular, we are interested in a range of fundamental and technical problems involving <b>slow phenomena and rare events</b>, such as the viscous flow of supercooled liquids, nucleation and crystal growth, the folding of polypeptide chains into structured proteins, the self-assembly of micro-units into functional objects, materials aging and degradation, and some mathematical optimizations. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We have a postdoc opening to work on the following projects<b>. </b>Outstanding postdoc candidates will be considered for the Beckman fellowships (</span><a href="http://beckman.illinois.edu/research/fellows-and-awards/postdoctoral"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://beckman.illinois.edu/research/fellows-and-awards/postdoctoral</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>).</span><o:p></o:p></p><ol start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Data-enabled machine learning studies of the extreme phase behavior of liquids and liquid-like matter, unconventional phase transitions and critical phenomena, kinetic theory of liquids.</span></i><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rare-event sampling algorithms applied to understand long timescale phenomena.</span></i><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rigidity control of liquids and granular materials, soft machines and soft robotics.</span></i><o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The experiments are usually performed at the neutron and synchrotron user facilities at national laboratories around the world. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Solid background in physics, mathematics, and programming are essential.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Physics, Chemistry, and EECS majors are preferred, but other majors are also welcome.<span style='color:#333333'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>For more information, please contact (with a CV and contact information of three references):</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Yang Zhang, Assistant Professor</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>Program of Computational Science and Engineering<br>Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Email: zhyang AT illinois DOT edu<br>Web: </span></i><a href="http://zhang.npre.illinois.edu"><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://zhang.npre.illinois.edu</span></i></a><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'> or </span></i><a href="http://zhang.cse.illinois.edu"><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://zhang.cse.illinois.edu</span></i></a><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'> or </span></i><a href="http://zhang.beckman.illinois.edu"><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://zhang.beckman.illinois.edu</span></i></a><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yang Zhang<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Program of Computational Science and Engineering<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://zhang.npre.illinois.edu" target="_blank">http://zhang.npre.illinois.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://zhang.cse.illinois.edu" target="_blank">http://zhang.cse.illinois.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://zhang.beckman.illinois.edu" target="_blank">http://zhang.beckman.illinois.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>