Physics

The Department of Physics provided these comments concerning the CS&E Initiative:

• CS&E Initiative and Departmental Plans and Priorities. In our December 1998 Academic Plan, we have earmarked our next two hires in the hopper (cosmology and high-energy experiment) to be in the data-intensive computational science area. We plan to leverage these two CS&E-participating hires to obtain two more half-GFTE joint appointments with CS&E. We will also commit two RFTEs to the CS&E Initiative to leverage two more half-GFTE appointments with CS&E [GFTE=growth FTE, RFTE = retirement FTE].
• Hiring. Senior faculty examples include Ed Bertchinger, MIT (astrophysics), Davis Cutts, Brown (high-energy physics, experimentalist), Leif Lonnblatt, CERN (high-energy physics, theoretician), David Ceperley, UIUC (quantum Monte Carlo methods), E. (Tim) Kaxiras, Harvard (materials physics: surfaces). Institutions to be targeted for recruitment should include Georgia Tech, LSU, Oregon State, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, Ohio State, Caltech, and Boston U.
• CS&E and its Relation to Teaching. The normal course load in Physics is three podium courses per year: on the average one graduate, one small- and one large-enrollment undergraduate course each. A CS&E-participating faculty member will teach each year two physics courses and one CS&E course or one computational physics course, cross-listed with CS&E. A faculty member jointly appointed with CS&E will teach one physics course and two CS&E courses, including a large-enrollment course, per year.
• Resources. Physics will commit RFTEs as well as positions in the hopper. Physics has no space to commit.