Faculty Employment Opportunities - UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics

Application materials should be sent to the following address.

Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs
University of California
Department of Mathematics
Berkeley, CA 94720-3840

Charles B. Morrey Jr. Assistant Professorships

We invite applications for these special (non-tenure-track) positions effective July 1, 2009. The terms of these appointments may range from two to three years. Applicants should have a recent Ph.D.’s, or the equivalent, in an area of pure or applied mathematics.

The applications must be submitted online via http://www.mathjobs.org and should include the AMS Cover Sheet and supporting documentation (cover letter, resume, publication list, research statement, and possibly a teaching statement). Applicants should ask three people to submit letters of evaluations via mathjobs.org. All letters of evaluation are subject to Berkeley campus policies on confidentiality of letters of evaluation, a summary of which can be found at http://math.berkeley.edu/employment_academic.html. Applications must be submitted by December 1, 2008. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

Tenured or Tenured Track Position

Pending budget approval, we invite applications for two positions effective July 1, 2009, at either the tenure-track (assistant professor) or tenured (associate or full professor) level, in pure or applied mathematics. Tenure-track applicants are expected to have demonstrated outstanding research potential, normally including major contributions beyond the doctoral dissertation. Such applicants are requested to submit an application on-line via http://www.mathjobs.org and the application should contain the AMS cover sheet, a resume, a list of publications, and a research statement. Applicants should ask three people to submit letters of evaluation through mathjobs.org. It is the responsibility of the tenure-track applicants to make sure that letters of evaluation are sent. All letters of evaluation are subject to Berkeley campus policies on confidentiality of letters of evaluation, a summary of which can be found at http://math.berkeley.edu/employment_academic.html.

Tenure applicants are expected to demonstrate leadership in research. They are requested to apply on-line via http://mathjobs.org and to submit the AMS cover sheet, a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and the names and addresses of three references. Applicants should indicate whether they are applying for an associate professor or a full professor position. The department will assume responsibility to solicit letters of evaluation and will provide evaluators with a copy of the summary of policies on confidentiality of letters of evaluation.

Non-electronic applications for tenure-track and tenure positions can be sent to the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs at the above address. They should contain the materials specified above.

Applications for both tenure-track and tenure applications must be submitted on mathjobs.org or postmarked by December 1, 2008. Applications submitted or postmarked after the deadline will not be considered. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

Temporary Postdoctoral Positions

Several temporary positions beginning in Fall 2009 are anticipated for new and recent Ph.D.’s in pure or applied mathematics. The terms of these appointments may range from one to three years. Applicants for NSF or other postdoctoral fellowships are encouraged to apply for these positions. Mathematicians whose research interests are close to those of regular department members will be given some preference.

The applications must be submitted online via http://www.mathjobs.org and should include the AMS Cover Sheet and supporting documentation (cover letter, resume, publication list, research statement, and possibly a teaching statement). Applicants should ask three people to submit letters of evaluations via mathjobs.org. All letters of evaluation are subject to Berkeley campus policies on confidentiality of letters of evaluation, a summary of which can be found at http://math.berkeley.edu/employment_academic.html. Applications must be submitted by December 1, 2008. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

Berkeley Campus Policies on Confidentiality of Letters of Evaluation

Under University and Berkeley campus policies, the identity of authors of letters of evaluation which are included in the personnel review files of employees and applicants will be held in confidence. Access for employees to information in their personnel files is governed by the Provisions of the Academic Personnel Manual section 160. Although applicants generally do not have a right of access to their University files pursuant to the Academic Personnel Manual section 160, they do have a right of access to their files pursuant to the Information Practices Act.

Current employees may, upon request and at certain prescribed stages of the academic personnel review process, be provided access to such letters in redacted form. Redaction, in this case, is defined as the removal of identifying information (including name, title, institutional affiliation, and relationship to the candidate) contained either at the top of the letterhead or within and below the signature block of the letter of evaluation. The full text of the body of your letter will therefore be provided to the employee if so requested. Thus, any information that tends to identify the writer in the body of the letter, may become available to the employee. Letter writers may provide a brief factual statement regarding your relationship to the candidate at the end of your letter but below the signature block. This brief statement will be subject to redaction and will not be made available to the candidate.

The Information Practices Act (Section 1798.38 of the California Civil Code) states that information compiled for the purpose of determining an individual's qualification for employment must be disclosed to that individual. If the information was received with the promise that the identity of the source would be held in confidence, then the identity of the source may be withheld, either by redaction, which in addition to removal of letterhead and signature block, may also include removal of identifiers in the body of the letter, or by providing a comprehensive summary.

Although we cannot guarantee that at some future time a court or governmental agency will not require the disclosure of the source of confidential evaluations in University of California personnel files, we can assure you that the University will endeavor to protect the identity of authors of letters of evaluation to the fullest extent allowable under the law.