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Applications are invited for a PhD position in the group of Dr David Carty, Department of Physics, Durham University, UK. The PhD is entitled "Cooling molecules to microKelvin temperatures: Deceleration, trapping and sympathetic cooling for quantum simulation" The studentship is associated with a large new EPSRC programme grant entitled MMQA: Microkelvin Molecules in a Quantum Array, joint with other experimental groups, and a theory group, at Durham and an experimental group at Imperial College London. For further details on the programme motivations see the news item at http://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/news/?itemno=11430 or see http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/chemistry/MMQAPDRAPGRoutline.pdf for a more detailed description of the project itself. To qualify for the PhD position, candidates should have a high quality degree in physics, chemistry or a related discipline. Subsistance of £13,590 per annum is paid for by the grant for 3.5 years. If the candidate is a UK or the European Union national, or has been a resident of the UK or EU for 3 years or more, then university fees are also paid for by the grant. If the candidate does not meet these requirements, it may still be possible to arrange for university international fees to be paid for, but candidates should contact me in the first instance. UK immigration rules will still apply. To apply for the position, please contact me by email in the first instance, describing your interests and giving the names of two referees. Please also attach a Curriculum Vitae to the email. If your initial contact is promising, I will invite you to follow up your interest with a formal application to the Physics Department of Durham University. A postdoc position on this same project will be advertised soon, and there are postdoc and PhD positions available in the groups of the other programme collaborators. Please contact Prof. Jeremy Hutson FRS, Dr Eckart Wrede Dr Simon Cornish or me ([log in to unmask]) for further details. Best wishes David Carty To join or leave the molecular-dynamics-news email list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/molecular-dynamics-news.html