For yet another year, CITA post-docs excelled on the faculty market. Marco Peloso moved even further north to a tenure-track position at the University of Minnesota in January of 2004. Two european imports joined faculty positions in Canada in fall 2004: Henk Hoekstra moved to the University of Victoria and Ludo van Waerbecke moved to UBC. Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes received a tenured position at l'Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in France. Jungyeon Cho moved to a faculty position at Chungnam National University in Korea (his home country). Over the past five years, that adds up to some twenty CITA postdocs who have received faculty positions. Otherwise, the CITA postdoctoral list was relatively stable at the beginning of the 2003/2004 academic year. Carlo Contaldi was promoted to a Senior Research Associate position in September 2003.
Seven new people accepted CITA postdoctoral positions for the fall of 2004. Pat McDonald (Ph.D. U. Pennsylvania) joined as a Senior R.A., as did Gil Holder in the fall of 2004 before moving to a faculty position at McGill. The other new CITAzens were Jean-Francois Dufaux (Ph.D. LPT Orsay), Jonathan Dursi (Ph.D. Chicago), Amr El-Zant (Ph.D. Sussex), Michael Nolta (Ph.D. Princeton), and Alexander Shirokov (Ph.D. MIT). Yuri Levin received the Beatrice D. Tremaine Fellowship for his innovative research on the Galactic Center. Matthias Liebendoerfer was awarded the Jeffrey L. Bishop Fellowship for his seminal work in supernova shock dynamics.
CITA faculty continued to garner awards. Dick Bond received the NSERC award of excellence, was one of three finalists for the Herzberg Gold Medal, and was elected an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Norm Murray spent six months in Berkeley as a visiting Miller professor.
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