For yet another year, CITA post-docs excelled on the faculty market. Andrei Beloborodov moved to a tenure-track faculty position at Columbia University in the fall of 2003, after spending an extra year at CITA. Yanqin Wu and Chris Matzner completed their moves upstairs to the University of Toronto's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Marco Peloso received a tenure-track faculty offer from the University of Minnesota, but chose to spend the fall of 2003 at CITA. Joe Weingartner started as an assistant professor at George Mason University, and Gary Felder moved to Smith College. Over the past four years, that adds up to some seventeen CITA postdocs who have received faculty positions. Some other CITAzens took up postdoctoral positions at other institutions: Andrei Frolov moved on to KIPAC (Stanford University) and Quinjuan Yu to Berkeley; Nicole Lloyd-Ronning moved to a research position at LANL; and Robin Humble made a (temporary) shift to Swinburne University in Australia.
Eight new people accepted CITA postdoctoral positions (beginning Fall 2003): Jungyeon Cho (Ph.D. Texas); John Everett (Ph.D. Chicago); Ilian Iliev (Ph.D. Texas); Subhabrata Majumdar (Ph.D. IUCAA), Kaya Mori (Ph.D. Columbia); Dmitri Podolsky (Ph.D. Landau Institute); Jonathan Sievers (Ph.D. Caltech), and Edward Thommes (Ph.D. Queens). Last but not least, Carlo Contaldi moved into a Senior Research Associate position within CITA. Andrei Beloborodov received the Beatrice D. Tremaine award for his innovative research on accretion onto compact objects, and cosmic gamma-ray bursts.
Amongst CITA faculty, Dick Bond succeeded Scott Tremaine as Director of the CIAR Cosmology Program in 2002. He was on sabbatical leave at Caltech, KITP, Cambridge, and IAP over the academic year. Ue-Li Pen was promoted to the tenured position of Associate Professor. CITA faculty also continued to garner awards: in particular, Chris Thompson was awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS (together with Robert Duncan and Chryssa Kouveliotou) for his prediction of `Magnetars'.
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