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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Hi Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">I am delighted to let everyone know that Dr. Pierre Heidmann just accepted our offer of a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in our department! He will be joining
our department Aug. 15 of this year. Please be sure to welcome him when he arrives if not before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">A huge thank you goes to: (i) Samir Mathur, who chaired the search committee, (ii) the search committee: Eric Braaten, Chris Hill, Chris Hirata, and Mohit Randeria, (iii) Ruth Leonard, who
organized all of the visits, talks, and other logistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Running a successful faculty search is a tremendous amount of work. I am grateful to everyone that helped make this a successful search.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">With best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><img width="224" height="45" style="width:2.3333in;height:.4687in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D98260.1E291360" alt="The Ohio State University"></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Michael G. Poirier</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<span style="background:white">Professor and Chair</span><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Physics</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> Department
of Chemistry & Biochemistry (by courtesy)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<span style="background:white"><a href="webextlink://1040%20Physics%20Research%20Building,%20191%20West%20Woodruff%20Avenue,%20Columbus,%20OH%2043210-1117" title="webextlink://1040 Physics Research Building, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1117"><span style="color:#0072C6">1040
Physics Research Building, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1117</span></a></span><br>
<span style="background:white">614- 247-4493 Office / 614-688-0742 Labs: 2135</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">,</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> 2147,
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</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:poirier.18@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0066CC;background:white">poirier.18@osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> / </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="http://http/u.osu.edu/poirierlab/.osu.edu" title="http://http/u.osu.edu/poirierlab/.osu.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0066CC;background:white">http://u.osu.edu/poirierlab/.osu.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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