<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>HPC wire has a jobs section once a week I believe. Should be just what you are looking for.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:hpcjobs@news.hpcwire.com">hpcjobs@news.hpcwire.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>-craig</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Mar 7, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Abel Orellana wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Hello from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sydney</st1:city></st1:place>,<br> <br>My name is Abel Orellana and I work for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Sydney</st1:placename></st1:place>. I sit in our research team within the recruitment division and I am partnering with the<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Civil Engineering</st1:placename></st1:place><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the effort to locate suitable candidates for the appointment of a Postdoctoral Research Associate – Computational Mechanics.<br> <br>When doing some preliminary research I found this listserv and thought it would be a great place to ask for assistance from some professionals already in the field.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <br>Given the focus of the role will be around research of quasi-brittle fractures in computational mechanics using MPI, I wanted to get in contact with members of this list to see if you were able to point me in the right direction and possibly provide some advice on the best avenues through which to get a communication out to individuals who may be interested in a new challenge (and a move to the sunny shores of Sydney!).<br> <br>I am really looking for some advice on potential advertising mediums, such as journals, forums and associations and potentially any other listserv/mailing list which may be helpful in spreading the word…<br> <br>A little more about the position:<br></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><br></span></font><i><font size="2" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; ">As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will be working in a project funded by the Australian Research Council on the study of quasi-brittle fracture. The project aims at understanding fracture and fragmentation processes in quasi-brittle materials, which is critical to improved mining operations and the prediction of natural catastrophes and structural failures.</span></font></i><i><font size="1" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><i><font size="1" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><i><font size="2" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; ">You will contribute to the goals of the project by developing constitutive models and computational algorithms for the analysis of quasi-brittle fracture across the scales. The formulation of constitutive models at continuum scale will be supported by meso-mechanical analysis to quantify the nonlocal effects due to microcrack interactions. The Material Point Method will be employed for the numerical analyses of quasi-brittle fracture at both macro and meso scales.</span></font></i><i><font size="1" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><i><font size="1" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><i><font size="2" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; ">This project is an integrated activity of the newly established Particles and Grains Lab within the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Civil Engineering</st1:placename></st1:place>. To succeed, you will have a strong background in computational mechanics along with experiences in nonlinear numerical analysis and computer programming. Experience in constitutive modelling, large strain finite elements and parallel programming/computing using MPI will be viewed favourably.</span></font></i><i><font size="1" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><i><font size="1" color="#999999" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><font size="2" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">Remuneration package:</span></font></i></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><font size="2" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "> </span></font></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><font size="2" color="gray" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: gray; font-style: italic; ">$83k - $90k p.a. (which includes a base salary $70k - $76k p.a., leave loading and 17% employer’s contribution to superannuation).</span></font></i></span><i><font size="2" color="gray" face="Verdana"></font></i><i><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic; "><br></span></font></i><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> <br></span></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">More specific information relating to the role can be found here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://usyd.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.processJobSearch&jobid=198bfabc-7673-7880-26db-5b23c1173970&jobsListKey=a68e0fa1-c599-48a1-9c3e-fe181982d9c5&persistVariables=jobsListKey" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Postdoctoral Research Associate</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "> <br>I appreciate you assistance and I look forward to hearing from you shortly<br> <br>Kind regards,</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; 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