[TYPES/announce] Research Job: Compositional Analysis for Mobility & Concurrency @ Heriot-Watt U., Scotland, UK
Joe Wells
jbw at macs.hw.ac.uk
Tue Jan 16 17:14:58 EST 2007
Research Position
ULTRA group (Useful Logics, Types, Rewriting, and their Automation)
Computer Science Department
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
The HTML version of this job posting can be found at:
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~jbw/position-ad.html
Description of the Position
A research position is available working on modular reasoning and
compositional analysis for computer systems and software with special
interest in mobility and concurrency. The position is working with Joe
Wells[1] in the ULTRA (Useful Logics, Types, Rewriting, and their
Automation) group[2] in the Computer Science Department[3] in the School
of Mathematical and Computer Sciences[4] at Heriot-Watt University[5] in
Edinburgh[6], the capital of Scotland[7]. The position involves
collaboration with the EPSRC and NSF-funded Church Project[8] as well as
various contacts in the European Global Computing community.
The research will include collaboration on the Poly*[9] polymorphic
retargetable type system for process and mobility calculi, but is not
limited to that topic.
It will be helpful if the researcher is competent in 1 or more of the
following knowledge areas.
* Formal calculi for reasoning about the meaning of computer systems
(including computer programs), especially those dealing with
aspects of (a) concurrency and (b) mobility, but also those
dealing with aspects of (c) modules, linking, and loading, (d)
resource usage, (e) components, (f) staged compilation, (g)
classes and objects, etc.
* Analysis of systems represented in formal calculi.
* Constraint solving and unification.
* Type systems, especially those with features similar to
intersection and union types.
* Programming languages good for use for any of the above.
The duration of the position is 1.5 years, with possible further
extension depending on performance, funding, and other circumstances.
Applications to spend a shorter period (e.g., the sabbatical leave of
an established academic) will be considered. The initial salary will
be in the range from 22111 GBP to 32471 GBP per year, commensurate
with qualifications and experience. The position is available
immediately. It is preferred that before starting the researcher will
have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline in Computer Science.
Very good Ph.D. students elsewhere who want to spend part of their
studies visiting Heriot-Watt will be considered. Applicants from
outside the European Economic Area (EEA) will be considered.
The researcher will probably collaborate on 1 or more of the following
activities. The specific activities will be matched to the strengths
of the researcher.
* Designing new type systems for compositional (modular) analysis of
systems that may involve one or more aspects of mobility,
concurrency, and modularity, as well as other features such as
resource awareness, components, run-time code generation, objects,
etc.
* Designing analysis algorithms for the new type systems.
* Designing theories (e.g., "calculi") for reasoning about the
meaning of computer systems with some of the features mentioned
above.
* Making software systems incorporating the new type systems,
algorithms, and calculi.
* Writing scientific reports on the work done.
References
1. http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~jbw/
2. http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ultra/
3. http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/
4. http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/
5. http://www.hw.ac.uk/
6. http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/tour/edintour.html
7. http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/scotland.html
8. http://www.church-project.org/
9. http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/DART/software/PolyStar/FAQ.html
Contact Information
Informal inquiries should be directed to Joe Wells at:
Web: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~jbw/
E-mail: jbw at macs.hw.ac.uk
Fax: +44 131 451 3327
Formal applications should be directed to the Heriot-Watt Human
Resources Office at:
Web: http://www.hw.ac.uk/hr/
E-mail: hr at hw.ac.uk (responses will usually be by paper mail,
telephone, or fax)
Voice mail: +44 131 451 3475 (available at all times)
Fax: +44 131 451 3475
Minicom: +44 131 451 8212
Post: Human Resources Office
Heriot-Watt University
EDINBURGH
EH14 4AS
GREAT BRITAIN
Applying for the Position
Please use the reference code 16/07/L to help prevent your application
from getting mixed up. For documents sent by e-mail, please use a
public and standard format. (The best formats are plain text and PDF,
because some of our staff may have trouble with HTML or PostScript.
Microsoft Word format is forbidden except where returning a form our
human resources office has supplied in this format.)
To formally apply for this position, please do as many as possible of
the items in the following list by 2007-02-12. The first 2 items are
absolutely necessary and the 3rd and 4th are quite important. If you
expect trouble meeting the deadline, please ask Joe Wells what to do.
* Cause 3 recommendation letters to be sent directly by their
writers. Do not send the letters with your application. (If
someone tells you the letters are not needed yet or that less than
3 are needed, this is a mistake. We want to see the letters before
choosing who to interview.)
* Send the following yourself:
+ your complete curriculum vitae, and
+ contact details for the 3 people writing your recommendation
letters.
* Get the Heriot-Watt Human Resources Office to send you an
"application pack". (This contains an application form (available at
http://www.hw.ac.uk/hr/htm/forms/Academic%20Application%20form.pdf),
an equal opportunities monitoring form (available at
http://www.hw.ac.uk/hr/htm/forms/Equal%20Opportunities%20Monitoring%20Form%20new%20Riccarton.doc),
information for applicants with disabilities, and some additional
information about Heriot-Watt and the position.)
* Fill out and return by post the application form and the equal
opportunities monitoring form. If your curriculum vitae is well
constructed, then some information requested will be redundant, so
just write "see c.v." in those blanks, but please return the
application form anyway. Although the application form requests
only the addresses of 2 references, please follow the instructions
above instead and supply 3.
* Optionally, also send either of the following:
+ a brief statement about why your research accomplishments and
interests are a good match for the position, and
+ up to 3 relevant publications of yours.
* It is helpful to inform Joe Wells that you are applying so that he
knows to ask our human resources office for your application
materials. It is helpful to send copies to Joe Wells of any
electronic files you submit.
* Anyone who might need a work permit if hired (usually someone who
is not a citizen of an EEA country) should also do the following.
In addition to possibly being e-mailed or faxed, each
recommendation letter should also be sent by post on
official-looking headed stationery paper and should include
details on your whereabouts over the last two years. A work permit
application also needs copies of any degree certificates, so it is
a good idea to send those also at the same time as you send the
rest of your application. Work permit applications can take quite
some time for the UK's Home Office to process, so please avoid
delays.
For your information, it is helpful if the writers of reference
letters provide details of:
* the capacity in which they know the candidate,
* the candidate's skills, abilities and performance in relation to
the post applied for,
* the candidate's employment record including details of the
candidate's role and service dates,
* their view of the candidate's suitability for the post as a whole,
in light of the attached details and their knowledge of the
candidate's experience and abilities,
* any further relevant information which would assist us in making
an appointment.
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