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Post-doc position on SAGA-GEO
by Magne Haveraaen 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Postdoctoral position in Programming Technology at the University of Bergen, Norway We are looking for an excellent researcher to fill a postdoctoral position. The position is available for a period of 2 years at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway. It is financed by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) through the project Scientific Computing with Algebraic and Generative Abstractions for Geophysical Problems (SAGA-GEO, http://www.ii.uib.no/saga/). The project conducts basic research on the use of advanced programming technologies for e- science. The position is in this area in general, but there is a preference for an expert in programming of parallel computers. University of Bergen is a city university. Parts of the campus are in fact situated in the town centre. We have about 17.000 students and nearly 3000 employees. UiB is renowned for its research which holds a high European standard and we have three Centres of Excellence (CoE). The University of Bergen has a strong international profile which entails close co-operation with universities all over the world. The working environment will be the Programming technology Group at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen. The group consists of 2 full-time professors, 3 adjunct professors, 1 postdoctoral fellows and 5 PhD positions. The group is very international and much of the working language is English. The project also involves cooperation with the Mathematics Department and CIPR. Applicants must have achieved a Norwegian doctorate in informatics, mathematics or an equivalent education abroad, or have presented the dissertation for assessment by the closing date for application. It is prerequisite the dissertation has been approved before appointment is granted. The chief objective of the postdoctoral position is to qualify the successful applicant for top academic positions. It is expected that the successful candidate will start late 2006 or early 2007. Salary will be paid in accordance with level 54 on the government salary scale (code 1352) currently equivalent to NOK 390 000 (1 EURO is about 8 NKR) per year before tax. There are no teaching duties. Positions in Norway include health and other benefits. Please contact Professor Magne Haveraaen http://www.ii.uib.no/~magne/ phone 47 55 58 4154 if you are interested in this position or if you have any questions. State employment shall reflect the multiplicity of the population at large to the highest possible degree. We have therefore adopted a personnel policy objective to ensure that we achieve a balanced age and sex composition and the recruitment of persons of various ethnic backgrounds. Persons of different ethnic backgrounds are therefore encouraged to apply for the position. The successful applicant must comply with the guidelines that apply to the position at any time.The University of Bergen applies the principles of public openness when recruiting staff to scientific positions. The successful applicant must comply with the guidelines that apply the position at any time. The University of Bergen applies the principles of public openness when recruiting staff to scientific positions. The application, and CV should be sent via the link http://jobb.jobbnorge.no/visstilling2.aspx?stillid=34220&lang=EN menu item "Apply for this position". The application should contain a brief statement of the applicants interest and motivation; and the names and email addresses of three referees. In addition, the above material and copies of exams (bachelor, master, PhD) and certificates, and up to 10 scientific works and a list of all publications should be sent by e-mail to saga-inquire(a)ii.uib.no with subject "saga-geo post doc 06/1147". Closing date for applications: 15th December 2006.

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Victor L Winter is out of the office.
by Victor L Winter 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

I will be out of the office starting 06/05/2007 and will not return until 07/02/2007. During this time I will have limited access to the internet.

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PhD on refactoring at Oxford
by Oege.de.Moor＠comlab.ox.ac.uk 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD COMPUTING LABORATORY Programming Tools Group Oxford University Computing Laboratory has a fully funded three year research studentship working in the Programming Tools Group with the abc team: http://progtools.comlab.ox.ac.uk http://aspectbench.org PROJECT SUMMARY Software systems are rarely written from scratch: they evolve over long periods of time. When a change is made, this often affects many different locations in a system, and it is hard to make a change consistently. For that reason, automated tools to help the process of software change are desirable. "Refactoring" refers to the process of restructuring an existing piece of software, often prior to introducing new functionality, or to take advantage of a new technology. Refactoring must preserve the behaviour of existing code, and tools that help in refactoring both assist in the restructuring process and in checking that the behaviour has not changed. Unfortunately today's refactoring tools are very hard to construct, they are still quite limited in functionality, and they often contain bugs. This project aims to construct a framework for better refactoring tools. In particular, the work is driven by refactorings for a new set of language features, called `aspect-oriented programming' that have recently been added to Java. Our framework will be based on developments in three separate areas of computer science: * "strategies" to control the process of rewriting program code, from the term rewriting community * "reference attribute grammars" to specify the conditions that guarantee behaviour is preserved, from the compilers community * "incremental evaluation" of declarative rules, from the functional and logic programming community. The quality of our framework will be assessed by coding selected case studies using alternative methods. In particular, we shall implement several refactorings directly in Eclipse, the leading development environment for writing aspect-oriented programs in industry. SELECTION CRITERIA The PhD student will be concerned with the theoretical foundations of the refactoring framework, for instance proofs of correctness for refactorings, and also for the incremental evaluation mechanism. We are thus looking for someone with good mathematical skills, in particular regarding formal properties of type systems and program analyses. Candidates must have an outstanding undergraduate or master's degree in computer science. More generally, candidates must satisfy the usual requirements: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/prospective/dphil/dphil-criteria.pdf for doing a doctorate at Oxford. HOW TO APPLY The deadline for applications has been extended to July 17, 2007, but earlier applications will be reviewed immediately, so candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Previous applicants need not re-apply. To apply you need to download the University's application form from: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/forms You will need to submit references and a transcript with your application. It is also required to submit a research proposal: in this proposal, please elaborate on the reasons why you are interested in this project, and the research questions you find most exciting and important to address within the scope of the project. To make a convincing proposal, you may wish to consult some of the suggested reading below. Please submit your application to: Mrs. Julie Sheppard Secretary for Graduate Studies Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD United Kingdom AND NOT TO THE ADDRESS ON THE APPLICATION FORM FURTHER INFORMATION We are happy to discuss any of the above informally with prospective candidates. Just email one or all of the project leaders: Oege de Moor (oege(a)comlab.ox.ac.uk) Torbjorn Ekman (torbjorn(a)comlab.ox.ac.uk) Mathieu Verbaere (matv(a)comlab.ox.ac.uk) SUGGESTED READING Avgustinov et al, Semantics of Static Pointcuts in AspectJ, POPL 2007 http://progtools.comlab.ox.ac.uk/members/oege/publications/documents/pcsema… Ekman and Hedin. Rewritable Reference Attributed Grammars, ECOOP 2004. http://www.cs.lth.se/gorel/publications/2004-ReRAGs-LNCS.pdf Verbaere, Ettinger and De Moor. JunGL: a Scripting Language forRefactoring, ICSE 2006 http://progtools.comlab.ox.ac.uk/publications/icse06jungl Visser. Program Transformation with Stratego/XT: Rules, Strategies, Tools and Systems in StrategoXT-0.9. Domain-specific program generation. http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/techreps/UU-CS-2004-011.html

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