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<div class="">PhD studentship in logic and systems verification at UCL .</div>
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<div class="">We are looking to hire an exceptionally able and highly-motivated PhD student in the <br class="">
area of logic and verification to work in UCL's PPLV group. We are particularly keen <br class="">
to find someone who is interested in systems modelling and verification and their <br class="">
underlying logical theory: </div>
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<div class="">- Logic</div>
<div class="">- Verification</div>
<div class="">- Systems modelling. <br class="">
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The studentship is aligned with the IRIS project (<a href="https://uclirisproject.wordpress.com" class="">https://uclirisproject.wordpress.com</a>), <br class="">
--- which is focussed on understanding and reasoning about the compositional structure <br class="">
of systems models and the supporting idea of an interface --- and will be supervised by </div>
<div class="">Professor David Pym (<a href="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/" class="">http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/</a>) and Dr. James Brotherston </div>
<div class="">(<a href="http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Brotherston/" class="">http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Brotherston/</a>). <br class="">
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In more detail, area of the studentship is in logic and its application to program and <br class="">
systems verification, with a particular interest in the development and application of <br class="">
logical tools based on bunched logic, separation logic, and concurrent separation logic <br class="">
(and related ideas) and their use to reason about the correctness of interfaces between <br class="">
programs, systems, and organizations. The project may range from theoretical work <br class="">
in logic (semantics and proof theory) through the theory of system modelling tools to the <br class="">
design and implementation of modelling and verification tools. <br class="">
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The PPLV group conducts world-leading research in logical and algebraic methods and <br class="">
their applications to program and systems modelling and verification. The Interface <br class="">
Reasoning for Interacting Systems (IRIS) project, led by Prof. David Pym, uses logical <br class="">
and algebraic methods to understand the compositional structure of systems and their <br class="">
communications, seeking to develop analyses at all scales, from code through distributed <br class="">
systems to organizational structure, generically and uniformly. <br class="">
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The IRIS project, funded as a UK EPSRC Programme Grant, is a collaboration involving <br class="">
James Brotherston, Byron Cook, George Danezis, Peter O’Hearn, and David Pym at UCL, <br class="">
Alastair Donaldson at Imperial College, Will Venters at LSE, and Edmund Robinson at <br class="">
QMUL. Industry partners include Amazon AWS, BT, Facebook, HP Labs, GridPP, and Methods <br class="">
Group. <br class="">
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Candidates should normally have or be about to complete a Master's level qualification in <br class="">
mathematics or computer science, with a strong component in logic or theoretical computer <br class="">
science. <br class="">
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The student is available with an earliest start-date of October 2018. <br class="">
Candidates should be UK or EU nationals. <br class="">
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Interested candidates may contact David Pym (<a href="mailto:d.pym@ucl.ac.uk" class="">d.pym@ucl.ac.uk</a>) or James Brotherston <br class="">
(<a href="mailto:j.brotherston@ucl.ac.uk" class="">j.brotherston@ucl.ac.uk</a>) for more information. <br class="">
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To apply, please follow the instructions at <br class="">
<a href="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/prospective_students/phd_programme/applying/" class="">http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/prospective_students/phd_programme/applying/</a><br class="">
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Professor of Information, Logic, and Security <br class="">
Head of Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification<br class="">
University College London<br class="">
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<a href="mailto:d.pym@ucl.ac.uk" class="">d.pym@ucl.ac.uk</a><br class="">
<a href="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/D.Pym.html" class="">www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/D.Pym.html</a><br class="">
<a href="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/" class="">www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/</a><br class="">
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Assistant: Julia Savage, <a href="mailto:j.savage@ucl.ac.uk" class="">j.savage@ucl.ac.uk</a>, +44 (0)20 7679 0327</div>
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