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Up to three fully funded research and teaching assistant positions with the opportunity of undertaking a PhD are available within the Verification Group, Department of Computer Science, at the University of Sheffield: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/research/groups/verification https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/research/groups/verification The verification group at Sheffield is growing rapidly. These posts provide excellent opportunities for graduate students (UK and overseas) to obtain a PhD in any active research area of the group, including semantics of concurrent and distributed systems, logics and complexity, algebraic and categorical approaches to program semantics, verification of multi-core programs and weak memory models, interactive theorem proving.
The posts are fully funded for 6 years with 60% devoted to research and 40% to teaching support..
For more detailed information (including roles and responsibilities), please see
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CTM862/teaching-and-research-assistant-in-compute...
For details on possible supervisors and research projects, please contact our personal websites from our group webpage
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/research/groups/verification https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/research/groups/verification For informal enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact any group member by email.
Dr. Jonni Virtema is keen to supervise students in any area of his current research, which relate to the interplay of logic and complexity theory. Current topics include logics and complexity theory related to numerical data, and temporal logics designed to express so-called hyperproperties, which are important in information flow and security. A further emerging topic is to study foundations of neural networks using the machinery of logics and complexity theory related to numerical data. See http://www.virtema.fi/ http://www.virtema.fi/ for further details.
Dr. Harsh Beohar is broadly interested in comparative concurrency semantics and in the interplay of category theory, logic, and semantics. Current topics include expressive modal logics, behavioural equivalence games, synthesising distinguishing/characteristic formulae all at the level of coalgebras. See https://dblp.org/pid/13/7482.html https://dblp.org/pid/13/7482.html for an uptodate list of publications.
Dr. Mike Stannett is interested in formal verification of physical theories, using Isabelle/HOL to verify first-order special and general relativity. Working with researchers at the Renyi Institute in Budapest he has successfully verified the “No Faster-than-Light Observers” theorem for special relativity; he is now collaborating on a locale-based extension of this proof to cover the corresponding theorem of general relativity. Other topics of interest include extending the Hungarian theories to generate a combined first-order quantum/relativistic theory. See https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kppqMecAAAAJ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kppqMecAAAAJ for a list of publications.