Departments Again Coordinate Postdoctoral Job Offer Deadlines

The following departments in the U.S. have formally adopted an agreement to coordinate their earliest deadline for responding to postdoctoral job offers for those jobs that begin in the fall of 2008. This agreement specifically excludes tenure track offers, and it applies only to candidates who are less than or equal to two years past the receipt of the PhD. The agreement attempts to address the problem that sometimes faces candidates for postdoctoral positions when they are asked to respond to a job offer by a certain date and this date is before the date of announcement of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships. In order to avoid this problem, the NSF has agreed that it will complete its review of applications by January 31, 2008, at the latest, and that all awardees of NSF postdoctoral fellowships will receive notification electronically by February 7, 2008. The departments listed below have agreed not to require responses to postdoctoral job offers before Monday, February 11, 2008.

A department's appearance in the list does not necessarily mean it has postdoctoral positions available for fall 2008.

If your department would like to announce its adoption of the agreement, please send email to this effect to Dr. Ellen Maycock at the AMS, ejm@ams.org. The list will be updated weekly until mid-January, 2008.

In addition to the academic departments listed above, the following research institutes offer traditional postdoctoral appointments and have also adopted the agreement:

• Institute for Advanced Study
• Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute