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Funded Research Studentships

The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews has funding for students to undertake PhD research in any of the general research areas in the school:

http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/research

We are looking for highly motivated research students with an interest in these exciting research areas. Our only requirements are that the proposed research would be good, we have staff to supervise it, and that you would be good at doing it. We have up to 6 funded studentships available for students interested in working towards a PhD. The studentships offer costs of fees and an annual tax-free maintenance stipend of about £13,590 per year for 3.5 years. Exceptionally well qualified and able students may be awarded an enhanced stipend of an additional £2,000 per year. Students should normally have or expect at least an upper-2nd class Honours degree or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

For further information on how to apply, see our postgraduate web pages. The closing date for applications is March 1st 2012 and we will make decisions on studentship allocation by May 1st 2012. (Applications after March 1st may be considered, at our discretion.) Informal enquiries can be directed to pg-admin-cs@st-andrews.ac.uk or to potential supervisors.

Palindromic moment

How did you mark the palindromic moment? Did it involve chocolate fingers and giant chocolate buttons?

Events across the UK also marked Armistice Day with a two-minute silence.

Workshop on Computational Logic in honour of Roy Dyckhoff

The University of St Andrews is hosting a 2-day workshop on Computational Logic in honour of Roy Dyckhoff, who has retired this year.

The workshop will be held in Parliament Hall at the University of St Andrews on November 18-19, 2011, and is very generously sponsored by the SICSA Modelling and Abstraction Theme.  Topics include Proof Theory, Natural Deduction, Verification, Combinatory Logic and Semantics.

More details, including the programme can be found at: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lengrand/Events/Dyckhoff/index.php?page=programme

Attendance at the workshop is free to SICSA researchers, but we do ask you to register through the web site so that we can arrange catering.

Event details

  • When: 18th November 2011 - 19th November 2011
  • Format: Workshop

Baby Fish Fry

Why has there been so much activity and excitement around the fish tank this week?

Baby Cichlids have been spotted hiding amongst the rocks. Let’s hope they grow large enough, not be eaten, when they make a bid for freedom.

Photographing the camera shy proved rather tricky. Masih finally succeeded this morning.

One from the archives: Plans for new computer science building

November 2002, and plans were unveiled in the university news, for a new Computer Science Building. Stages of the build were photographed for posterity.