[ecoop-info] Funded PhD positions on Virtualization and Managed Runtime Environments at the University of Manchester

[Mikel Lujan]

We are pleased to announce up to 12 funded PhD positions in all the
research areas of the Advanced Processor Technologies Group
(http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt). Next deadline for applications is
May 28th 2010.

If you are interested in PhD research opportunities on Virtualization or 
Managed Runtime Environments, you can visit:
- Dr. Mikel Lujan http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/people/mlujan
- Prof. Alasdair Rawsthorne 
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/people/arawsthorne/

Examples of current research projects in our research group follow:
- Research in Transactional Memory and Many-cores
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/projects/TM
http://www.teraflux.eu
- iTLS: Intelligent run-time parallelization in managed runtime
environments (e.g. Java Virtual Machines).
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/projects/iTLS
- SpiNNaker: a universal Spiking Neural Network architecture
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/projects/SpiNNaker/
- SEDATE: Algorithms and Tools for the synthesis of self-timed datapaths
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/projects/sedate

Silistix (http://www.silistix.com/) and Transitive
(recently acquired by IBM) are two spin-off companies commercializing
research carried out by the APT group.

More information about the members of the group and their research
interests can be found at
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/people/

Specifics about the PhD studentships can be found at
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/phd/funding/

Regards,

Mikel

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Dr Mikel Lujan
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Advanced Processor Technologies
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
mikel.lujan at manchester.ac.uk
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/people/mlujan
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