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A PhD studentship in the area of logic and verification is available at UCL's
PPLV group (see
http://pplv.cs.ucl.ac.uk/welcome/).
Details at
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/prospective_students/phd_programme/funded_scholarships/
Closing date is 17 July 2018.
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) or James
Brotherston
(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/
Please note that the closing date for this studentship is 17 July 2018.
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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
www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/D.Pym.html
www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/
Assistant: Julia Savage, j.sav...@ucl.ac.uk, +44 (0)20 7679 0327
