Dear SHINErs,

There  are number of faculty positions at Rice which will be of interest to some members of the solar heliospheric community.   Rice has announced an initiative in Data Sciences with the creation of  a number of a faculty positions at all ranks across the university.   In particular, the list of topics of interest includes high-volume and/or high-velocity data intensive science.   Researchers developing data analytic tools such as machine learning techniques or other data science methodologies that are used in solar physics and astronomy but can be broadly implemented across disciplines are strongly encouraged to apply. 

The position announcement is at https://datascience.rice.edu/faculty-position-announcement

The high-volume, high-velocity component is described as follows:

Researchers in many disciplines today are using petabytes or exabytes of data that may hold the promise of important new discoveries. While these researchers face many of the same issues found in other data-driven efforts, the use of truly-large datasets and datasets that arrive at high-velocity introduces new challenges in terms of both the underlying computer systems, hardware and software, and the analytical techniques applied to the data. These challenges are fundamentally different from those seen at smaller scales.