Professor of Physics. D. Phil., Oxford University 1973

Honor and Awards
  2009 Aneesur Rahman Prize of the American Physical Society (for Computational Physics)
  2008 Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society (inaugural year of the award).
  2004-2005 Outstanding Faculty Award of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.
  2003-2004 Excellence in Teaching Award of the University of California, Santa Cruz
  1989, Fellow of the American Physical Society
  1985 Maxwell Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics, (with Alan Bray)
 

Post-doc position

The main interest at present is to use numerical techniques from statistical physics to study the "quantum adiabatic algorithm" which has been proposed for a quantum computer to solve a broad range of optimization problems, see arXiv:0910.1378 and arXiv:0803.3971 (Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170503 (2008). Another area of interest is phase transitions in spin glasses. Experience with numerical techniques is necessary. Prior experience with Monte Carlo methods would be useful but not essential.

Interested candidates should send an application to me at peter@physics.ucsc.edu and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. The position will remain open until filled.

My coordinates:
Office :   212 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
Address : Physics Department,  University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone :   (831) 459-4151
Fax :        (831) 459-3043
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