PHD POSITION ON CONCURRENCY, LOGIC, AND TYPE SYSTEMS

(Posted: August 31, 2018)

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

We are searching for one four-year PhD position on the topics of concurrency, logic, type systems, and programming languages.

You will contribute to rigorously comparing different type systems for message-passing programs, such as session types.
These comparisons will use as reference a correspondence known as "propositions as sessions", which connects concurrency and logic in the style of the well-known Curry-Howard correspondence.
We will use the resulting comparisons to streamline existing type systems, and to guide the development of verification tools for message-passing programs.

Your PhD research will be embedded in the project "Unifying Correctness for Communicating Software", a VIDI career grant recently awarded to Dr. Jorge A. Pérez by the NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research).
As such, you will join a dynamic, quickly growing research group; within the project, you will collaborate with research partners both in the Netherlands (e.g., at CWI Amsterdam) and abroad.

- Qualifications

You have an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Logic, Mathematics, or Artificial Intelligence, and experience in one or more of the following:

• Semantics of programming languages
• Program verification, type systems, and/or typed programming languages
• Concurrency theory and/or process calculi
• The Curry-Howard isomorphism ("propositions as types")
• Modal/substructural logics and (their) proof theory

Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

- Application and Additional Information

For further details on the position and the application procedure, please visit
https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/overview?details=00347-02S0006KOP

For further information and expressions of interest, contact Jorge A. Pérez (j.a.perez@rug.nl).
See also http://www.jperez.nl/vidi

You may apply until 1 October 23:59h / before 2 October 2018 (Dutch local time).

Additional information

• Further information on the Vidi project
• Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science, and AI
• The Fundamental Computing group