Subject: New Tokyo International Institute & opportunities there (fwd)

From: Ed Turner

Submitted: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:20:34 -0400 (EDT)

Message number: 1069 (previous: 1068, next: 1070 up: Index)

The Japanese government has just (as of Oct 1, actually) established a
rather bold and innovative (and well funded) institute under the management of 
the University of Tokyo and located on its Kashiwa (a Tokyo suburb) campus. 
Novel features of this new institute include the requirements to have a 
substantial fraction of non-Japanese on its research staff, to use English as 
its "working language" and not to be bound by the standard Japanese academic 
salary scales.  It aims to be active in mathematics, fundamental physics, 
astrophysics, statistics and so forth with cosmology as a connecting 
theme/topic.  Many details are still being worked out, but there is quite a bit 
of information at

http://ipmu.fiw.ad.jp/

The Insitutute will be doing a substantial amount of hiring at a wide range of 
career levels and also hopes to have a very active visitors
program.  It is a rather unusual situation/development and may offer
some significant new opportunities.  I urge`you to check it out for yourself 
and/or bring this information to the attention of your colleagues, students and 
anyone you think might be interested.

Perhaps of particular interest to the SDSS communities, work on large 
scale cosmological surveys is mentioned explicitly in the Institute's 
plans.

Ed Turner

PS - I am sure that at least a few of you will already be aware of IPMU, as it 
is called; if you are one, please excuse the spam.

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