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A PhD studentship in the area of logic and verification is available at UCL's
PPLV group.
The studentship is aligned with the IRIS project
(https://uclirisproject.wordpress.com)
and will be supervised by Professor David Pym
(http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/)and
Dr. James Brotherston (http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Brotherston/).
The area of the studentship is in logic and its application to program and
systems
verification, with a particular interest in the development and application of
logical tools based on bunched logic, separation logic, and concurrent
separation logic
(and related ideas) and their use to reason about the correctness of interfaces
between
programs, systems, and organizations. The project may range from theoretical
work
in logic (semantics and proof theory) through the theory of system modelling
tools to the
design and implementation of modelling and verification tools.
The PPLV group conducts world-leading research in logical and algebraic methods
and
their applications to program and systems modelling and verification. The
Interface
Reasoning for Interacting Systems (IRIS) project, led by Prof. David Pym, uses
logical
and algebraic methods to understand the compositional structure of systems and
their
communications, seeking to develop analyses at all scales, from code through
distributed
systems to organizational structure, generically and uniformly.
The IRIS project, funded as a UK EPSRC Programme Grant, is a collaboration
involving
James Brotherston, Byron Cook, George Danezis, Peter O’Hearn, and David Pym at
UCL,
Alastair Donaldson at Imperial College, Will Venters at LSE, and Edmund
Robinson at
QMUL. Industry partners include Amazon AWS, BT, Facebook, HP Labs, GridPP, and
Methods
Group.
Candidates should normally have or be about to complete a Master's level
qualification in
mathematics or computer science, with a strong component in logic or
theoretical computer
science.
The studentship is available from September/October 2018. Candidates should be
UK or EU nationals.
Interested candidates may contact David Pym
(d....@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:d....@ucl.ac.uk>) or James Brotherston
(j.brothers...@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:j.brothers...@ucl.ac.uk>) for more information.
To apply, please follow the instructions at
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/prospective_students/phd_programme/applying/
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Professor of Information, Logic, and Security
Head of Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification
University College London
Turing Fellow and UCL University Liaison Director
Alan Turing Institute
d....@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:d....@ucl.ac.uk>
www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/D.Pym.html
www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/
