Please note that this position is no longer available! 12 June 2008 Dear Colleagues: A postdoctoral position is available in the OOF group. Please circulate this announcement to any interested parties. Thank you, Steve Langer ************ A postdoctoral position is available in the OOF project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. OOF is a computational platform for solving physics problems on materials with complex microstructures, using real microstructural geometries (from micrographs) as the starting points for creating finite element meshes. It currently solves linear elasticity and other structurally similar problems (e.g., thermal diffusion and piezoelectricity) in two dimensions. OOF is designed to be a user-friendly general purpose platform to which users, who are not expert computational scientists, can add their own physics models. The OOF development team (currently consisting of 2.5 people) is extending the program to handle three dimensions and time-dependent and non-linear physics. A candidate for the position should have a strong object-oriented programming background, preferably in C++ and/or Python. Experience in parallel programming, numerical methods, materials physics (especially fracture and plasticity), or image analysis will be beneficial. Because the focus of the position will be collaborative software development, all applicants are asked to send samples of code that they have written. The programming language and topic aren't important, but the code should be indicative of the candidate's programming skills. More details about OOF are available at http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/oof. Please send resumes and code samples to Steve Langer at stephen.langer@nist.gov. *************