Dear Haskellers, The School of Computer Science in Nottingham is advertising 10 fully- funded PhD studentships. Applicants in the area of the Functional Programming lab (fp.cs.nott.ac.uk) are highly encouraged! If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor in the FP lab prior to submitting your application: Thorsten Altenkirch - constructive logic, proof assistants, homotopy type theory, category theory, lambda calculus. Venanzio Capretta - type theory, mathematical logic, corecursive structures, proof assistants, dependently-typed programming. Graham Hutton - program construction and verification, category theory, recursion operators, coinductive types. Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, modelling and simulation, probabilistic languages, and design and implementation of declarative domain-specific languages in general. See below for full details. All the best, /Henrik +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 10 Fully-Funded PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK http://nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI1498 Applications are invited for up to ten fully-funded PhD studentships in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2016. 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 and in the area of Data Science. The studentships are for three years and include a stipend of £14,507 per year and tuition fees, and are available to students of any nationality. 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. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Christine.Fletcher@nottingham.ac.uk. To apply, please submit the following items by email to the above address: (1) a brief covering letter that describes your reasons for wishing to pursue a PhD, your proposed research area and topic, and the name of a potential supervisor; (2) a copy of your CV, including your actual or expected degree class(es), and results of all University examinations; (3) an example of your technical writing, such as a project report or dissertation; (4) contact details for two academic referees. Closing date for applications: 19th February 2016 +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 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.