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KG Zloshchastiev's group at the Institute of Systems Science, Durban University of Technology, located in the city of Durban, South Africa, opens the visiting positions for 2017. Visits are funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa through the Durban University of Technology. There is no formal deadline, applications will be considered until the positions will be filled.

The group is now working on several multi-disciplinary topics, with a strong emphasis on these:

The University of KwaZulu–Natal (UKZN) is committed to Employment Equity with the intention to promote representivity within the Institution.
For the Lecturer position only, preference will be given to applicants from the African designated groups.

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
RESEARCHER: THEORETICAL QUANTUM PHYSICIST (SENIOR LECTURER/LECTURER) THREE YEAR FIXED TERM APPOINTMENT
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS DURBAN/PIETERMARITZBURG CAMPUS
REF NO.: CP24/2015

One of the focus areas of the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Quantum Information

Shikano group at Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, located in Okazaki, Aichi, Japan opens the visiting positions from December 1st to March 31st. The visiting period is negotiable but the end of the period, March 31st, 2016 is too restricted. Shikano group is now working on several topics,

The Light-Matter Interactions Unit (https://groups.oist.jp/light) in OIST, headed by Prof Síle Nic Chormaic, invites applications for a research technician in the unit. The candidate will provide technical support across all experimental areas in the group. Candidates with experience in electronics, optical nanofiber fabrication, interfacing, optics, or fibre-based imaging are preferred. The successful candidate must hold at least an MSc in an experimentally related area and have a couple of years of relevant experience.

QUTE-EUROPE and QUANTIKI are seeking for a motivated person with good computing skills and some background in quantum information. On a basis of ~600 EURO/month for a period over a year, you will help us to

- improve the user-friendliness of Quantiki
- implement new features
- add content and promote the site on the web
- join relevant databases of Qute-Europe and Quantiki

Shikano group invites applications to fill a few visiting students or posdocs for the current research activities. Shikano group hosted the visiting students and posdocs as seen in http://qm.ims.ac.jp/members_en For this visiting post, Shikano group widely opens the opportunities to the current research project.

The research group (http://qm.ims.ac.jp/?lang=en) let by Prof. Yutaka Shikano at Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems, Institute for Molecular Science, which is located at Okazaki, Japan, announces the opening of the Ph.D candidate position from October 2014 and the visiting Ph.D/PostDoc position for three - twelve months.

Opportunity for a motivated graduate student to assist with empirical studies of quantum annealing, using a 512-qubit D-Wave Two machine. Come spend an exciting summer in Arlington, Virginia, USA next to Washington, D.C., working for the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC ISI, http://www.isi.edu). ISI is a unit of USC’s Top 10 ranked Viterbi School of Engineering, and has an office in Virginia. The opening is in ISI's Reconfigurable Computing Group.

Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) opens the opportunities for the Ph.D candidate visiting program . The term is from one year (April 2014 to March 2015) to three year. The visiting contract starts April 2014. Shikano group belongs at Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems (CIMoS) http://cimos.ims.ac.jp/en/ and opens the opportunities for opening the Ph.D students and candidates with the financial support of the research assistants. The current projects are

Please see

http://www.maths.nuigalway.ie/research/MSc-Applied-Maths/

and scroll down to "Project C". The masters will investigate strategies in quantum
evolutionary game theory. Please email michael.mcgettrick@nuigalway.ie for further information.