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The University of Birmingham
School of Computer Science
Research studentships
in
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
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The School of Computer Science has research strengths in the areas of
Theoretical Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
Science, and Software Engineering.
The Theory of Computation group concentrates on the development of
logics and semantics for programming languages. The overall aim is to
provide intuitive conceptual tools for the everyday practice of
programming. Within this framework, the activities range from abstract
mathematics to issues of implementation and software development. For
an overview of past research activities of the group, including funded
research projects and publications, see the URL:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/research.html
Current academic and research members of the Theory group are:
Dr Martin Escardo
Dr Carsten Fuhrman
Dr Mateja Jamnik
Professor Achim Jung
Dr Manfred Kerber
Dr Marta Kwiatkowska
Dr Gethin Norman
Professor Uday Reddy
Dr Eike Ritter
Dr Mark Ryan
Dr Jeremy Sproston
Dr Hayo Thielecke
There are also 11 PhD students associated with the group, of the total
of 40 in the School. Possible topics for research include, but are not
restricted to:
Verification and model checking
Feature interactions in reactive systems
Abstraction and decomposition in model checking
Verification of probabilistic systems (theory and implementation)
Verification of real-time systems (theory and implementation)
Probabilistic and stochastic calculi
Semantics for concurrency
Temporal and modal logics
Domain theory
Topological methods in computer science
Exact real number computation
Constructive mathematics
Extensions to the relational database model (theory and implementation)
Parametricity and foundations of data abstraction
Semantics and formal methods for OO programming
Continuations and control
Semantics and reasoning for computational effects
Categorical models of programming languages
Linear logic, type theory and corresponding categorical semantics
Linear abstract machines
Agent-based mathematical reasoning
Machine-assisted reasoning
Diagrammatic reasoning
Theorem proving and proof planning
Applicants must have or be about to gain at least an upper second class
honours degree or an overseas equivalent in Computer Science or a
related subject.
Successful applicants will be offerred an opportunity to join The
Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science, a
recent initiative between the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester,
Nottingham and Warwick aiming to provide broader educational experience
for doctoral students. For more information see URL:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/MGS/
The School has a number of studentships and teaching assistantships.
The teaching assistantships are available to UK and EU applicants while
a range of studentships are available to all applicants. Details are
given in:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pjh/prospectus/funding/research.html
The School's research student prospectus and application form are
available from:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/studentinfo/form_mailer.html
Informal enquiries can be directed to any member of the group (see URL
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/system/auto-gen/staff.html
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk
for contact information), or *in the first instance* to
Marta Kwiatkowska Email M.Z.Kwiatkowska@cs.bham.ac.uk
Tel +44 121 414 7264
FAX +44 121 414 4281
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