[TYPES/announce] PhD/Postdoc vacancy: Homotopy type theory and probabilistic programming
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Aarhus University in Denmark has a PhD and a postdoc vacancy on the AFOSR funded project: Homotopy type theory and probabilistic programming The goal of the project is to use type theory for probabilistic programming and computer aided proofs in security. Postdoc: http://cs.au.dk/about-us/vacancies/scientific-positions/stillinger/Vacancy/show/985804/5283/ Application deadline: 12 august 2018. PhD: http://talent.au.dk/phd/scienceandtechnology/opencalls/calls-on-specific-projects/august-2018/type-theory-probabilistic-computation-and-computer-aided-cryptography-proofs/ Application deadline 1 August 2018 at 11.59 PM MET Related publications include: * Florian Faissole and Bas Spitters, Synthetic topology in Homotopy Type Theory for probabilistic programming http://www.cs.au.dk/~spitters/ProbProg.pdf * Helene Haagh, Aleksandr Karbyshev, Sabine Oechsner, Bas Spitters, Pierre-Yves Strub, Computer-aided proofs for multiparty computation with active security, CSF https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/502 * Daniel Huang, Greg Morrisett, Bas Spitters, An Application of Computable Distributions to the Semantics of Probabilistic Programs, https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07966
[TYPES/announce] postdoc position at Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Postdoc position in the area of software variability (with strong ties to robotics and embedded/cyber-physical systems). Apply by *July 5*. We are looking for a candidate with a good formal background, including experiences with Functional Programming, Model-Driven Engineering. and Formal Methods. OVERVIEW Employment: Fixed-term, 2 years Extent: 100 % of full time Location: Department of Computer Science and Engineering / Division of Software Engineering, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg First day of employment: As soon as possible Applications via: https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=2776 Application deadline: July 5 CEST (strict) GENERAL INFORMATION The department of Computer Science and Engineering is jointly hosted by Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. It is a strongly international department with approximately 80 faculty among a total of 260 employees originating from 30 countries. Located in Gothenburg -- Sweden’s second-largest city -- the department is surrounded by a vibrant ecosystem of software-intensive companies, such as Volvo Cars and Volvo AB, Ericsson, ABB, Boeing, and SAAB Aeronautics. The department is connected to three science parks in Gothenburg for industrial collaborations in fields including intelligent vehicles and transport systems, mobile internet, energy, nanotechnology, and life sciences. Alumni and members of the department have also created many startups, including revolutionary ones such as Spotify. The announced postdoc position is located at the division of Software Engineering. With 21 faculty members it is arguably one of the largest software-engineering institutes world-wide, conducting research at the highest international level in topics such as model-driven engineering, testing, software product lines, empirical software engineering, requirements engineering, autonomic computing, and cloud computing. This year, the division organizes two of the most influential software-engineering conferences, ICSE’18 and SPLC’18. For industrial research, the division hosts the Software Center, an associated institute with a network of five universities and ten global companies including Siemens, Axis, and Jeppesen. JOB ASSIGNMENTS The postdoctoral researcher will conduct research in the areas of software product-line engineering, model-driven engineering or empirical software engineering. The position is embedded into the EU ITEA project REVAMP with a focus on re-engineering and migration of variant-rich systems into modern and scalable product-line architectures. It is also closely related to the EU project Co4Robots where modern variability mechanisms (including dynamic variability and adaptation mechanisms) will be conceived for robotics and cyber-physical systems. The primary job assignment is research, with excellent collaboration opportunities with the project partners, including SCANIA, ABB, SAAB, ALTRAN, PAL Robotics, and Bosch, among potentially other European partners. The position includes 10-20% teaching (negotiable) at the Software Engineering division by supervising Master theses and supporting courses as a teaching assistant. Applicants must have a PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a closely related discipline. Prior publications, excellent references, fluency in English as well as good communication, collaboration, self-organization, and programming skills are also required. APPLICATION Applications are to be written in English and need to contain: - Cover letter expressing the applicant’s motivation, experiences, and relevant qualifications in relation to the announced position - Detailed curriculum vitae including publications, teaching experiences, and three references with their contact details - Official transcripts of education certificates (degrees, including grade reports and other documents when applicable). Applications only online by July 5 (end of day CEST, strict) via: https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=2776 Please contact Thorsten Berger (contact information below) for questions about the position. -- Thorsten Berger Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bergert Tel.: +46 (0) 31 772 6075 Mob.: +46 (0) 729 746 246 Skype: tberger.work
[TYPES/announce] Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) 2018 Call for Papers
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) 2018 Call for Papers Colocated with CCS 2018 - October 15 - Toronto, Canada Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high degree of utility. Having already been the subject of a decade of intense scientific study, it has also now been deployed in products at government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and companies like Apple and Google. Researchers in differential privacy span many distinct research communities, including algorithms, computer security, cryptography, databases, data mining, machine learning, statistics, programming languages, social sciences, and law. This workshop will bring researchers from these communities together to discuss recent developments in both the theory and practice of differential privacy. Specific topics of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to): – theory of differential privacy, – privacy preserving machine learning, – differential privacy and statistics, – differential privacy and security, – differential privacy and data analysis, – trade-offs between privacy protection and analytic utility, – differential privacy and surveys, – programming languages for differential privacy, – relaxations of the differential privacy definition, – differential privacy vs other privacy notions and methods, – experimental studies using differential privacy, – differential privacy implementations, – differential privacy and policy making, – applications of differential privacy. Submissions: The goal of TPDP is to stimulate the discussion on the relevance of differentially private data analyses in practice. For this reason, we seek contributions from different research areas of computer science and statistics. Authors are invited to submit a short abstract (2-4 pages maximum) of their work. Submissions will undergo a lightweight review process and will be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. Submission should describe novel works or works that have already appeared elsewhere but that can stimulate the discussion between different communities at the workshop. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop either as a talk or a poster. The workshop will not have formal proceedings and is not intended to preclude later publication at another venue. Please format your submissions according to the instructions in https://www. sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2018/papers/. Submissions will be accepted at https://easychair.org/ conferences/?conf=tpdp18. Important dates: – Abstract submission: July 20 (anywhere on Earth), – Author Notification: August 13, – Workshop: October 15. Website: http://tpdp.cse.buffalo.edu/2018/ Program committee: • Aleksandar Nikolov (chair), University of Toronto • Raef Bassily, Ohio State University • Mark Bun, Boston University • Michael Hay, Colgate University • Vishesh Karwa, Temple University • Katrina Ligett, Hebrew University • Anand Sarwate, Rutgers University • Thomas Steinke, IBM • Reza Shokri, National University of Singapore • Kunal Talwar, Google
[TYPES/announce] PhD position: Unifying Correctness for Communicating Software
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] [Please share widely with potential candidates; apologies for any cross-postings.] PHD POSITION ON "UNIFYING CORRECTNESS FOR COMMUNICATING SOFTWARE" University of Groningen, The Netherlands Deadline: Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Contact: Dr. Jorge A. Pérez (j.a.pe...@rug.nl) This four-year PhD position is embedded in the project "Unifying Correctness for Communicating Software", a 5-year VIDI career grant awarded to Dr. Jorge A. Pérez by the NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research). The project will deliver a comprehensive description of how different verification techniques for message-passing concurrency relate to each other. We will use the Curry-Howard correspondence for concurrency (aka "propositions as sessions") as a reference in formalizing these relations. These foundational results will be validated through case studies and tool prototypes. The PhD student will contribute to rigorously compare and systematize different type systems for message-passing programs (such as session types). These comparisons will then be used to streamline existing type systems for message-passing programs, but also to define new type systems, following the logical foundations defined by the Curry-Howard correspondence for concurrency. The research plan for the PhD student can be shaped depending on his/her strengths and interests. The PhD student will join a vibrant research group (three PhD students and a postdoc), supported by generous research funds. In particular, he or she will work in coordination with a postdoc researcher (also to be funded by the VIDI career grant), and will have the chance of visiting international research collaborators to be involved in the project. We look for a talented and dedicated student with an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Logic, or Mathematics, excellent communication skills in English, and enthusiastic to work in a team. Candidates with experience in one or more of the following are especially encouraged to apply: - semantics of programming languages and/or program verification - the Curry-Howard isomorphism (aka "propositions as types") - concurrency theory and/or process calculi - modal/substructural logics and (their) proof theory To apply, please send an email to Jorge A. Pérez (j.a.pe...@rug.nl), including: - a full curriculum vitae; - a cover letter explaining your motivation to join the project; - contact information of two references. Applications received by Tuesday, July 31, 2018 will receive full consideration; early expressions of interest are encouraged. The position will remain open until filled; the stating date is flexible. Further information on the project: http://www.jperez.nl/vidi Informal inquiries: Dr. Jorge A. Pérez (j.a.pe...@rug.nl) -- Jorge A. Pérez Assistant Professor Bernoulli Institute for Math, CS and AI University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl
[TYPES/announce] Deadline Approaching - SBMF 2018
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] CALL FOR PAPERS 21st Brazilian Symposium On Formal Methods (SBMF) Supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) Salvador-BA, Brazil 26 to 30 of November 2018 http://www.sbmf2018.ufba.br/ IMPORTANT DATES (still accepting new abstracts) Paper Submission Deadline: **July 13th, 2018** Paper Acceptance Notification: August 28th, 2018 Paper Camera-ready Version: September 4th, 2018 INTRODUCTION SBMF 2018 is the twenty-first of a series of events devoted to the development, dissemination, and use of formal methods for the construction of high-quality computational systems. It is now a well-established event, with an international reputation. In 2018, SBMF will take place in Salvador, the capital of the Bahia state, northeast of Brazil. It is the 3rd city by population in Brazil, with over 2.9 million inhabitants, and it is the second most popular destination in Brazil for tourists. SCOPE AND TOPICS The aim of SBMF is to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of high-quality work in formal methods. The topics include (not limited to): * techniques and methodologies, such as method integration; software and hardware co-design; model-driven engineering; formal aspects of popular methodologies; formal design; development methodologies with formal foundations; software evolution based on formal methods; * specification and modeling languages, such as well-founded specification and design languages; formal aspects of popular languages; logic and semantics for programming and specification languages; code generation; formal methods of programming paradigms (such as objects, aspects, and component), formal methods for real-time, hybrid, and safety-critical systems, formal models of service-oriented, cloud-based, and cyber-physical systems; * theoretical foundations, such as domain theory; type systems and category theory; computational complexity of methods and models; computational models; term rewriting; models of concurrency, security and mobility; * verification and validation, such as abstraction, modularization and refinement techniques; program and test synthesis; correctness by construction; model checking; theorem proving; static analysis; formal techniques for software testing; software certification; formal techniques for software inspection; * Experience reports regarding teaching formal methods; * applications, such as experience reports on the use of formal methods; industrial case studies; tool support. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should present unpublished and original work that has a clear contribution to the state of the art on the theory and practice of formal methods. They should not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Papers will be judged by at least three reviewers on the basis of originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation quality, and should contain sound theoretical or practical results. Industry papers should emphasize practical application of formal methods or report on open challenges. Contributions should be written in English and be prepared using Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Papers may not exceed 16 pages (including figures, references, and appendix). Accepted papers will be published, after the conference, in a volume of LNCS. Also, a special issue of Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier) is going to be published for the very best papers. Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered in the symposium by the time the camera-ready copy is submitted; the registered author is also expected to attend the symposium and present the paper. Papers can be submitted via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbmf2018 ABOUT SALVADOR Salvador's importance dates back to Brazilian colonization, as it was established as the country's first capital (founded in 1549). Its center is a living museum of 17th- and 18th-century architecture and gold-laden churches. Aside from the many attractions within Salvador (Pelourinho, Modelo Public Market, Lacerda elevator, Church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim), gorgeous coastline lies right outside the city ? a suitable introduction to the tropical splendor of the state of Bahia. Salvador presents a vibrant musical scene and popular Carnival celebrations, being considered one of the birthplaces of Brazilian culture. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Jose Meseguer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Prof. Alexandre Mota (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) GENERAL CHAIR Adolfo Duran (UFBA, Brazil) PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Mohammad Mousavi (University of Leicester, UK) Tiago Massoni (UFCG, Brazil) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Yet to be confirmed) Adenilso Sim?o (ICMC/USP, Brazil) Alexandre Mota (UFPE, Brazil) Aline Andrade (UFBA. Brazil) ?lvaro Moreira (UFRGS, Brazil) Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) Ana de Melo (USP, Brazil)
