[TYPES/announce] 1 faculty and 6 postdoc/Ph.D. positions in functional high-performance computing

[Fritz Henglein]

[The theory, design and application of type systems and attendant type
technology for functional (FP) and domain-specific (DSL) languages are
expected to be a cornerstone of the DSL and FP research areas, which
constitute 50% of HIPERFIT.  Candidates with knowledge and interest in
type systems are particularly encouraged to apply.]

The recently established Research Center for Functional
High-Performance Computing for Financial Information Technology
(HIPERFIT) at the University of Copenhagen has openings for 1
permanent faculty position and 6 postdoc or Ph.D. scholar positions,
starting September 1st or later this year.  The faculty position is at
the assistant or associate professor position, depending on the
applicant's seniority.  The postdoc positions are for up to 3 years,
and the Ph.D. scholar positions are full-time salaried positions for
either 3 or 4 years.  Applicants with documented knowledge of
functional programming and/or domain-specific languages are highly
encouraged to apply.

Deadline: July 4th, 2011.
Position start: September 1, 2011, or later.

HIPERFIT gathers researchers from mathematical finance (MF),
domain-specific languages (DSL), functional programming (FP) and
high-performance systems (HPS) and experts from financial sector
institutions to solve the simultaneous challenges of high
transparency, high computational performance and high productivity in
finance by mapping high-level models and languages directly onto the
evolving crop of inexpensive highly parallel computer architectures
such as GPGPUs.

Candidates are expected to have a solid academic background within one
or more of the 4 research areas (MF, DSL, FP, HPS) as demonstrated by
documented knowledge related to:

Multidimensional diffusion stock market models (MF)
Bond market theory and credit risk theory (MF)
Jump-diffusion models and stochastic volatility models (MF)
Functional programming, other declarative programming paradigms (FP,
DSLs and HPS)
Formal semantics, type theory and type systems, program logics and
verification (FP, DSLs and HPS)
Program analysis and transformation, programming language
implementation (FP, DSLs and HPS)
Theory and practice of parallel and/or concurrent programming (FP, DSLs and HPS)
Computer architecture (HPS).

They are also expected to take an active interest in cooperating with
researchers in the other areas.  (Putting it informally: You are
demonstrably at home in one of the areas -- one is enough, more are
welcome -- and you are excited, rather than put off, worried or
indifferent, about learning about and engaging yourself with
specialists from the other areas.)

HIPERFIT deliberately pursues high-risk research with a potentially
disruptive strategic impact on high-performance computing practice,
viewing the dramatic changes in commodity computing platforms from
being sequential to massively parallel as an opportunity for
``naturally'' parallel high-level programming languages to effectively
bridge problem/solution specifications on the one side and evolving
parallel computer architectures on the other.  In this fashion
HIPERFIT complements the prevalent retrofitting and adaptation of
existing code bases and low-level coding for specific parallel machine
architectures.  Applicants with a background in functional programming
and declarative domain-specific languages are thus particularly
encouraged to apply.

For more information on HIPERFIT, see http://www.hiperfit.dk.

For detailed information on the position announcements, including
application details and contact information, see
http://www.offentlige-stillinger.dk/sites/cfml/kbhuni/kbhuniVis.cfm?plugin=1&englishJobs=NO&nJobNo=196679&nLangNo=1.