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+title: Farewell to Azalea Raad, joining the  Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
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+Our best wishes to Dr Azalea Raad, who has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the 
+[Max Planck Institute for Software Systems](https://www.mpi-sws.org/) in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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+Azalea will work with [Viktor Vafeiadis](https://people.mpi-sws.org/~viktor/) on weak memory models for transactions, 
+a new exciting area with much left to explore. Azalea's thesis and recent publications are now available 
+on [her website](http://www.soundandcomplete.org/publications.html).
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