PhD position in coalgebra, University of Leicester

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Leicester offers three PhD studentship (GTA). The GTA scheme involves some teaching and runs for 4 years. Unfortunately, the university waives the fees only for EU nationals.

One of the positions will be under the supervision of Alexander Kurz and the PhD thesis will be on the topic of coalgebra. Colleagues in Leicester working on related topics include Nick Bezhanishvili, Roy Crole, Reiko Heckel, Vincent Schmitt, Emilio Tuosto, and Fer-Jan de Vries. Moreover, there will be close collaboration with the logic groups at the University of Amsterdam (in particular with the VICI-project directed by Yde Venema at ILLC) and at the University of Oxford (Hilary Priestley, Alexandru Baltag).

The official announcement and application form is available at http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/supportjobs/s3149a.html. The applications should be submitted no later than 23 February 2007. For further information contact Alexander Kurz at kurz at mcs.le.ac.uk.