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                     Assistant Research Professor
            Department of Computer Science, Duke University

  A postdoctoral position at the level of Assistant Research Professor
is available starting in 1996 in the Department of Computer Science 
at Duke University, under the supervision of Profs. Pankaj Agarwal 
and Jeff Vitter. Duke is an equal opportunity employer.
  The position, which is contingent upon grant funding, is for one 
year and can be extended for one or more additional years. Applicants 
must have clearly demonstrated experience and skills in the design, 
analysis, and implementation of combinatorial algorithms, especially 
in the area of geometric algorithms. Teaching responsibilities include
one research course per year on a related topic.
  The position will include membership in the Center for Geometric
Computing, a collaborative effort funded by the Army Research Office
with participation from researchers at Brown, Duke, and Johns Hopkins
Universities. The problems of interest center around large-scale
geometric computations. They include development of efficient methods
for the design of geometric data structures, for constructing geometric
configurations, and for geometric visualization.
  Apart from pursuing his or her own research interests in geometric
computing, the candidate is expected to play a vital role in the
development of the software library for geometric computing, in which
the amount of data is very large and I/O communication costs dominate.
Issues involving memory hierarchies & parallel models of communication
will also be considered. Further responsibilities will be to interact
with agency scientists and to help prepare contract, technical, and 
other reports. The candidate will interact with geometric computing 
groups at Brown, Johns Hopkins, and the Army Research Laboratories.
  Please send a letter of interest and your CV, and ask three 
evaluators to send letters of reference, by US Mail or email to
   Ms. Cathie Caimano
   Department of Computer Science
   Duke University, Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
   Email: cac@cs.duke.edu. Tel: (919) 660-6548
  To be assured of full consideration, all material including
reference letters must arrive by January 31, 1996.