Advance Notice of Possible Research Opening

[Kevin Hammond]

Dear friends,

Although final confirmation is awaited, Kevin Hammond and Steve Linton expect
shortly to be in a position to advertise a three year post-doctoral fellowship
to work on a research project entitled:  "Computational Algebra for Commodity
Parallel Machines".

The goal of this project is to develop  and experiment with flexible and robust
parallel implementations of some key computational group theory algorithms,
using Glasgow Parallel Haskell and link these to GAP as a high-performance
back-end, with the possibility of closer integration including calls back from
Haskell to GAP.

A copy of the Case for Support outlining the programme of research can be seen
on the World Wide Web at:

http://www-circa.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~sal/parallel.pdf

We will be looking for a Research Assistant with the following qualities:

A Programming experience:

1. They must be an experienced Programmer
2. Preferably, they should have experience of functional languages, 
preferably Haskell
3. Ideally they would have experience of functional language implementation,
     preferably the Glasgow Haskell compiler and ideally the GUM 
parallel runtime

B Mathematics

1. They must have taken at least some university level discrete mathematics
	course (this may however have been taken in e.g. a computer
	science department)
2. Preferably they should have studied group theory and/or computer algebra
3. Ideally they would have a good knowledge of computational group theory and
     experience with GAP

Assuming the funding is confirmed, a formal advertisement will appear on the
School of Computer Science and University of St Andrews Web sites, on
www.jobs.ac.uk and in the press, and will be circulated. In the meantime, feel
free to make informal enquiries directly to us:

	Kevin Hammond       (kh@dcs.st-and.ac.uk)
	Steve Linton        (sal@dcs.st-and.ac.uk)