Faculty Hiring - Math - The University of Utah

University of Utah, Department of Mathematics

Current Positions (2023-2024)

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah invites applications for the following positions:

1. A tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Pure Mathematics at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor.

2. One or more career-line faculty positions at the anticipated rank of Assistant Professor (Lecturer).

3. One career-line faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor (Lecturer) to teach mathematics courses at the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea; for more details see https://asiacampus.utah.edu

4. Several 3-year, termed research postdoctoral positions that involve research and teaching. Successful applicants might also receive additional opportunities through the Cecil Edmund Burgess and C. R. Wiley endowed Instructorships, as well as individual faculty research.

5. Several 3-year, termed postdoctoral positions in Applied Mathematics that involve research and teaching. This is in collaboration with the NSF Research Training Grant (RTG) “Optimization and Inversion for the 21st Century Workforce.” For more information on this grant see www.math.utah.edu/amrtg/. Applicants to this RTG program must have completed a PhD in Mathematics or a closely related field at the time of appointment and must be US citizens, nationals, or permanent residents. Outstanding candidates in areas of optimization, inverse problems, mathematics of materials and fluids, and mathematical climate science, as well as related areas in data science, machine learning and statistics will be considered. Applications from other fields of applied mathematics may be considered as long as they fit in the overarching goals of the RTG.

The anticipated start date for these positions is July 1, 2024.

All applications must be completed through MathJobs at https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/UofUtah. Please refer to the individual job posts on MathJobs for a list of required application materials and search timeline for each position.

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