Dear friends, Although final confirmation is awaited, Kevin Hammond and Steve Linton expect shortly to be in a position to advertise a three year post-doctoral fellowship to work on a research project entitled: "Computational Algebra for Commodity Parallel Machines". The goal of this project is to develop and experiment with flexible and robust parallel implementations of some key computational group theory algorithms, using Glasgow Parallel Haskell and link these to GAP as a high-performance back-end, with the possibility of closer integration including calls back from Haskell to GAP. A copy of the Case for Support outlining the programme of research can be seen on the World Wide Web at: http://www-circa.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~sal/parallel.pdf We will be looking for a Research Assistant with the following qualities: A Programming experience: 1. They must be an experienced Programmer 2. Preferably, they should have experience of functional languages, preferably Haskell 3. Ideally they would have experience of functional language implementation, preferably the Glasgow Haskell compiler and ideally the GUM parallel runtime B Mathematics 1. They must have taken at least some university level discrete mathematics course (this may however have been taken in e.g. a computer science department) 2. Preferably they should have studied group theory and/or computer algebra 3. Ideally they would have a good knowledge of computational group theory and experience with GAP Assuming the funding is confirmed, a formal advertisement will appear on the School of Computer Science and University of St Andrews Web sites, on www.jobs.ac.uk and in the press, and will be circulated. In the meantime, feel free to make informal enquiries directly to us: Kevin Hammond (kh@dcs.st-and.ac.uk) Steve Linton (sal@dcs.st-and.ac.uk)