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Salary range: £30434 - £34,233
FTE: 1.0
Term: Fixed Term (4 years)
Closing date: 23 February 2015

Applications are invited for a Research Associate to work under the supervision 
of Professor Neil Ghani and Dr Conor McBride on the EPSRC grant "Homotopy Type 
Theory: Programming and Verification". Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT) is a 
revolutionary new approach to type theory where types are interpreted as 
spaces, terms as points and equalities as paths. Decades of research in 
homotopy theory has uncovered the structure of such paths and HoTT uses this 
structure as the basis of a new theory of equality. Excitingly, within homotopy 
theory, one naturally studies higher homotopies of paths between paths and this 
gives the higher dimensional structure of equality we previously lacked. The 
objective of this grant is to translate the advances of HoTT into more concrete 
programming language and verification tools.
You will join a team consisting of Prof Neil Ghani, Dr Conor McBride at the 
University of Strathclyde as well as Dr Nicola Gambino at the University of 
Leeds and Dr Thorsten Altenkirch at the Univeristy of Nottingham. We will be 
hiring an RA to work on the more theoretical parts of the project at Nottignham 
while your main duties will be to conduct research on the more applied - that 
is programming language - aspects of the project at Strathclyde. You will 
possess a PhD in mathematics or computer science and be familiar with type 
theory, category theory and programming languages.

Interviews have been scheduled for 25 March 2015.

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Neil Ghani, (email: 
neil.gh...@strath.ac.uk<mailto:neil.gh...@strath.ac.uk> or tel: 0141 548 4303) 
or Dr Conor McBride, (email 
conor.mcbr...@strath.ac.uk<mailto:conor.mcbr...@strath.ac.uk> or tel 
01415483121.
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