[Haskell] PhD studentships at the Functional Programming Lab in Nottingham

[Henrik Nilsson]

Dear Haskellers,

The School of Computer Science in Nottingham is advertising 10 fully-
funded PhD studentships. Applicants in the area of the Functional
Programming lab (fp.cs.nott.ac.uk) are highly encouraged! If you are
interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor in the
FP lab prior to submitting your application:

Thorsten Altenkirch - constructive logic, proof assistants, homotopy
type theory, category theory, lambda calculus.

Venanzio Capretta - type theory, mathematical logic, corecursive
structures, proof assistants, dependently-typed programming.

Graham Hutton - program construction and verification, category theory,
recursion operators, coinductive types.

Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, modelling and 
simulation, probabilistic languages, and design and implementation of
declarative domain-specific languages in general.

See below for full details.

All the best,

/Henrik

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             10 Fully-Funded PhD Studentships

                 School of Computer Science
                University of Nottingham, UK

http://nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI1498

Applications are invited for up to ten fully-funded PhD studentships
in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham,
starting on 1st October 2016.

The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the
interests of one of the School’s research groups: Agents Lab; Automated
Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning; Computer Vision Lab; Functional
Programming Lab; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab
and in the area of Data Science.

The studentships are for three years and include a stipend of £14,507
per year and tuition fees, and are available to students of any
nationality. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class
Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related
discipline, and must obtain the support of a potential supervisor in
the School prior to submitting their application. Initial contact with
supervisors should be made at least two weeks prior to the closing date
for applications.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to

     Christine.Fletcher at nottingham.ac.uk.

To apply, please submit the following items by email to the above
address:

(1) a brief covering letter that describes your reasons for wishing to
pursue a PhD, your proposed research area and topic, and the name of a
potential supervisor;

(2) a copy of your CV, including your actual or expected degree
class(es), and results of all University examinations;

(3) an example of your technical writing, such as a project report or
dissertation;

(4) contact details for two academic referees.

Closing date for applications: 19th February 2016

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