{"id":3715,"date":"2011-05-19T18:51:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T22:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2011-05-19T18:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T22:51:26","slug":"particle-theory-job-market-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3715","title":{"rendered":"Particle Theory Job Market 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now the hiring season for tenure-track jobs is pretty much over, and for the field of particle theory some idea of the results is available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/particle.physics.ucdavis.edu\/rumor\/doku.php\">Theoretical Particle Physics Jobs Rumor Mill<\/a>.  As has been usual for the last few years, most jobs are going to phenomenologists.  Remarkably, it seems that no jobs at all are going to string theorists so far this year.  The final number of jobs is yet to be determined, with ten people so far getting job offers.  It looks like the total number of jobs in the field will remain at the low level typical of the last three years since the recession hit in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Erich Poppitz has been compiling statistics based on the Rumor Mill data, and has the results through 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.utoronto.ca\/~poppitz\/Jobs94-08.pdf\">here<\/a>.  Job numbers rose to a level of 20-25 jobs\/year from 2000-2007, from a low level of 10 jobs\/year back in the 1990s.  This phenomenon is generally attributed to jobs becoming available as the generation that was tenured during the huge expansion of universities in the 1960s finally started to retire.   The recession has brought those numbers down to 15 (2008), 9 (2009) and 14 (2010).   In recent years (since about 2004) he counts about a fifth of the jobs as going to string theorists.  If that number does go to zero this year, that would be the first time this has happened since the numbers became available, and I would guess all the way back to shortly after string theory first became popular in 1984-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now the hiring season for tenure-track jobs is pretty much over, and for the field of particle theory some idea of the results is available at the Theoretical Particle Physics Jobs Rumor Mill. As has been usual for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}