Dear all, The School of Computer Science in Nottingham is advertising 7 fully-funded PhD studentships for "home" students (or EU students who have been ordinarily resident in the UK for 3 years prior to the start of the programme). Applicants in the area of the Functional Programming lab (fp.cs.nott.ac.uk) are encouraged! If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor in the FP lab prior to submitting your application: Venanzio Capretta - type theory, mathematical logic, corecursive structures, proof assistants, dependently-typed programming. Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, modelling and simulation, domain-specific languages, probabilistic languages. Thorsten Altenkirch and Graham Hutton - not planning to take on any further new PhD students this year. Best wishes, Graham +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 7 Fully-Funded PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI1433 Applications are invited for up to 7 fully-funded PhD studentships for "home" students (or EU students who have been ordinarily resident in the UK for 3 years prior to the start of the programme) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2015. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the School's research groups: Agents Lab; Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning; Computer Vision Lab; Functional Programming Lab; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab; Networked Systems. The studentships are for three years, include a stipend of £13,863 per year and tuition fees, and are available to students who qualify as "home" applicants in terms of their fee status. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and must obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the School prior to submitting their application. Initial contact with supervisors should be made at least two weeks prior to the closing date for applications. Applications should be submitted via the postgraduate applications website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/apply/apply-online.aspx. As part of your personal statement, please include an outline research proposal (max 1 page). Informal enquiries may be addressed to Christine.Fletcher@nottingham.ac.uk. Closing date for applications: Tuesday 31st March 2015 +-----------------------------------------------------------+ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.