[agents] PhD Positions at the University of Liverpool

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The Department of Computer Science of the University of Liverpool offers a number of PhD positions in the research fields pursued in the department. We have four positions available for home and EU students in EEECS for starting in 2017.

Our research is centred around the following themes:

agent logics
algorithmic game theory
algorithms and data structures
approximation algorithms
argumentation and dialogue
artificial intelligence and law
auctions and mechanism design
automata and game theory
automated reasoning
autonomous agents
bioinformatics, computational biology and medicine
coalition games
combinatorial optimisation
computational complexity and computability theory
computational economics
control theory
data mining
database theory
deep learning
description logics
distributed and parallel computing
equilibrium computation
graph algorithms
judgement aggregation
machine learning
Markov chains and decision processes
multi agent systems
natural language processing
network and congestion games
network communication
ontologies
ontology-based data access
randomised algorithms and data structures
reinforcement learning
robotics
scheduling and energy optimisation
synthesis
stochastic games
temporal logics
voting theory

To learn more about our exciting research environment, staff, and students, we encourage you to study the pages of our research groups on
Algorithms and Optimisation https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/optimisation/,
Argumentation https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/argumentation/,
Automata, Computability and Complexity Theory https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/complexity/,
Data Mining and Machine Learning https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/dmml/,
Economics and Computation https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/ecco/,
Knowledge Representation https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/kr/,
Networks and Distributed Computing https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/networks/,
Robotics and Autonomous Systems https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/robotics/, and
Verification https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/verification/,
and to contact prospective supervisors to discuss a research topic before you apply.

You can apply through http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/applying/.

The deadline for this application round is Friday, December 2nd. While applications will be possible until all positions are filled, your chances will be increased by applying before this deadline.

Please do not hesitate to ask (sven.schewe at liverpool.ac.uk or eeecspgr at liverpool.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

Dr. Sven Schewe
PhD Admission Officer
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~sven/
(+44 151) 79 54242
sven.schewe at liverpool.ac.uk