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Faculty Positions at Hongik University in Korea

Hongik University has openings for faculty positions and would like to invite applications from any interested members of your department/college for the Fall Semester starting from September 1, 2020. As one of the major private universities in Korea, Hongik University strives to be a link between academia and industry, and to provide service for the benefit of wider society. For detailed information in English, please visit us online and click “Foreign applicant” on the website. A link with information about available faculty positions and the application process will be open throughout the application period, by May 13th.

To access position listings and the application, click here.

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Science Career Path: Job Opportunities, Tips & Advice – May 2020

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has released its May 2020 Science Magazine, which features job opportunities, career articles, tips, etc. Below is a snapshot of a few of the job opportunities that the website offers. Please be sure to visit the website to learn more!

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JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 

Research Associate 
Chemitope Glycopeptide | New York 
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Research Specialist – Pathology 
University of Illinois at Chicago | Illinois 
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Senior Research Assistant 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Texas 
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Post doctoral biomedical research scientist 
Roskamp Institute | Florida 
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Assistant/Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Tenure Stream) 
Dalhousie University | Canada 
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Tenure-Track Position in Lung Extracellular Matrix Biology 
NIH/NIEHS (Natl Inst of Environmental Health Sci) | North Carolina 
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Staff Scientist – Lymphoma Translational Research 
City of Hope | California 
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Executive Officer 
Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation | Virginia 
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Division Chief for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 
University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Children’s Hospital | Washington State 
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JOBS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND REST OF WORLD 

PhD position (m/f/d) Benthic-pelagic particle dynamics and solute fluxes in permeable sediment 
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) | Germany 
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Biostatistician – Radiation Effects Research Foundation 
The National Academy of Sciences | Japan 
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Postdoctoral scientist in bioinformatics of bacteria-phage interactions 
Jagiellonian University | Poland 
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Immunology Sales Specialist 
ProImmune Ltd. | United Kingdom 
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Immunology Faculty Position at National Taiwan University 
National Taiwan University | Taiwan 

Head of Metabolomics Facility at CeMM, Vienna 
CeMM | Austria 
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Faculty Position 
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong 
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Faculty Position in Soil System Science at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne 
EPFL | Switzerland 
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Post-doc Position | Neural and Intelligence Engineering Center, ISTBI,Fudan Univerisity 
Institute of Science and Tenchology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University | China 
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5/8/20 meGRAD Virtual Town Hall & Award Ceremony Announcement

In order to keep you all posted on announcements and to answer any questions, meGRAD will be hosting a Town Hall on Friday May 8th from 1-2PM. We will be making general announcements, policy updates, deadlines, etc. There will also be a Q&A session for students to ask any important questions.  The Q&A session will be monitored by staff.

We ask that participants mute their devices when not speaking. Any questions or concerns you have during the meeting should be posted in the chat box. We will attempt to answer all questions within the time limit, but this is not guaranteed. If your question is missed during the town hall, we will follow up with you directly.  If you would like to submit any questions in advance, please send them directly to Darius Craig (dcraig12@umd.edu).

Date: 5/8/2020

Time: 1-2pm  

Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5892291420

 Meeting ID: 589 229 1420

Immediately following the Town Hall, we will be posting meGRAD’s Spring 2020 Virtual Award Ceremony. During this ceremony, we will honor the achievements and accomplishments of meGRAD’s amazing students. Although we cannot meet in person, meGRAD is working tirelessly to ensure that you all are recognized for your hard work and dedication. If you would like to be recognized for an award or achievement, contact Darius at dcraig12@umd.edu by Noon, May 7th.

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Announcements Defenses

Thesis Defense: Justin (Chad) Humme

Title: Mixed Complementarity Modeling in the Global Natural Gas Market

Author: Justin (Chad) Huemme

Date & Time: Monday, May 11, 2020 – 12:00PM

Committee

  • Professor Steven Gabriel, Chair/Advisor
  • Professor Shapour Azarm
  • Associate Professor Qingbin Cui

Abstract: This thesis describes the development and capabilities of an updated mixed complementarity problem model of the global natural gas market derived from the University of Maryland 2014 World Gas Model (WGM). Through an understanding of the current state of the natural gas market, the WGM determines the economic behavior of various market players with the deployment of Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions in conjunction with market-clearing conditions. The capabilities of the World Gas Model are highlighted through two case studies that are of varying international importance. The case studies are specifically selected from different issues that face the natural gas market such as a United States and China trade war and U.S. Coast Guard liquefied natural gas (LNG) inspection workforce forecasting. The goal of the United States and China Trade War case study is to analyze the potential long- and short-term effects of a prolonged trade war under several different possible scenarios. The U.S. Coast Guard LNG inspection workforce forecasting case study utilizes the WGM to provide the future workforce demand for U.S. regulatory personnel and the associated costs based on the growth of the U.S. LNG industry.

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Dissertation Defense: Tianchen Liu

Title: Co-design for Multi-subsystem and Vehicle Routing-and-Control Problems

Author: Tianchen Liu

Date & Time: Friday, May 15, 2020 – 2:00PM.

Committee:

Professor Shapour Azarm, Chair/Advisor

Professor Nikhil Chopra, Co-advisor

Professor Balakumar Balachandran

Professor Jin-Oh Hahn

Professor Nuno Martins

Professor Miao Yu

Abstract: Co-design refers to the process of integrating optimization of the physical design with a controller for a system. The challenge in co-design is that the optimization is simultaneously applied to both time-invariant (design) and time-variant (state and control) variables, which can be coupled with each other.

The objective of this dissertation is to explore new formulations and approaches in co-design for multi-subsystem and vehicle routing-and-control problems. Specically, four research questions are considered and resolved. In Research Question 1 (RQ1), the critical issue is how to formulate a class of multi-subsystem co-design problems with convexphysical design subproblems and linear quadratic regulator control subproblems, and construct a decentralized solution approach for such problems. In Research Question 2 (RQ2), solution methods for a broader class of multi-subsystem co-design problems than those considered in RQ1 are investigated. In Research Question 3 (RQ3), the question is whether, in the context of co-design, the combined routing and control costs of a feet of vehicles can be improved if optimal control is introduced into the routing. Finally, an extension of RQ3 is considered in Research Question 4 (RQ4), where the possibility of constructing an integrated vehicle routing-and-control problem with load-dependent dynamics is investigated.

Beyond the articles published by the author of this dissertation, the proposed research questions, models and methods presented have not been considered elsewhere in the literature.