Job!

[steuard]

Well, after two or three weeks of near-incessant travel (including one stop by home that lasted just 11 hours), I've finally made a decision on a job for next year. I've accepted the offer to be a visiting assistant professor of physics at the Joint Sciences Department in Claremont; I think that I'll officially be associated with Scripps, but Joint Sciences is fairly independent so that designiation doesn't mean much. This will be cool: after visiting other excellent places, I've really come to recognize how unique the environment in the Claremont Colleges actually is (lots of great shared resources, and other colleagues at nearby schools including a string theorist at Mudd). It's a good job.

Now I can actually get back to thinking about work. I've just published another paper and given a talk at a string theory conference, but there's a lot left to do before I can finish and defend my thesis. Plus, we need to figure out where to live next year. :) Meanwhile, to those of you currently in southern California, we'll be seeing you soon!

Comments

[pearmeson.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the job and decision! Any word on what they'll have you teach/do next year? How long is the post?

I've always had a secret crazy desire to teach in Claremont for a while -- I'll just have to live vicariously through you for now. :)

[steuard.livejournal.com]

We haven't worked out my exact schedule yet, but at least at first I think I'm going to be teaching general physics aimed at other science majors (calculus based), as well as a bunch of related labs. I may diversify a bit more for spring semester, but experience teaching introductory classes (and labs) will be important for my CV when I go to apply for tenure-track jobs later.

This position is officially for one year, but there is a very high probability of it continuing for a second year assuming that I don't seriously injure lots of students or something (I understand that funding for the position in the following year is already in place).

As for teaching in Claremont, yeah, it's something that I've thought would be cool, too; Kim and I were really excited when this job ad showed up (as well as a simultaneous ad at Pomona... but they were looking specifically for experimentalists). I would be most excited about teaching at Mudd, to be honest, but since they already have one string theorist from the University of Chicago on staff I suspect that they won't be hiring a second one any time soon. :) But as it stands, Joint Sciences is going to be fantastic; I'm really looking forward to it.

[pearmeson.livejournal.com]

Naturally, Mudd is the ideal, if only so I can occasionally drop snarky comments like, "I _failed_ this class when I took it here," and have instant street cred. :)

[robbbbbb.livejournal.com]

Hey, congratulations on the job! LA is not that far a flight away. We'll likely see y'all when we make a trip to see Erica's folks.

[thaisa.livejournal.com]

That's very exciting...I'm living in Pasadena these days, and I certainly hope I'll get to see more of you and Kim. Given how long it's been since I've seen you, it wouldn't be hard...

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Coolest job ever. Congratulations.