[GAP Forum] GAP development vacancy

[Stephen Linton]

Dear GAP Forum,

While the GAP forum does not usually accept job advertisements, we  
make an exception in the rare event that we get an opportunity to  
recruit people specifically to work on developing GAP.
We are lucky enough to be in that position at St Andrews this year,  
thanks to a recently awarded four year research grant in which we aim  
to develop GAP to take advantage of the parallel computing  
possibilities of modern hardware, from multi-core laptops through  
various kinds of clusters to national supercomputers.

The official advertisement is found at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/employment/Code,32980,en.html 
, where you will also find links to further particulars and  
application forms.


The text of the advert is is:


Research Fellow in Computational Algebra (SK222/09)

Closing date: 18 May 2009

£36,532 pa

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra  
(CIRCA) has a vacancy for a Senior Research Fellow in connection with  
the EPSRC grant "HPC-GAP: High Performance Computational Algebra and  
Discrete Mathematics" (EP/G055181).

You will lead a team of four software developers in an ambitious  
programme to adapt the GAP system to take advantage of modern high  
performance computers. You will conduct, lead and publish research  
into and using parallel algorithms and systems for computational  
algebra and take part in the general development of the project, of  
CIRCA and of GAP.

You will have an appropriate PhD or equivalent and preferably relevant  
postdoctoral experience; a track record of success in complex  
mathematical or scientific software development; and good  
communication and leadership skills.

You will start on 1 September 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter  
and continue until the end of the grant in August 2013.

  Informal enquiries to: For more information, or informal discussion,  
please feel free to contact Steve Linton, sal at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk,  
tel: +44 1334 463269, fax: +44 1334 463278.


	Steve




Steve Linton	School of Computer Science  &
       Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra
	     University of St Andrews 	 Tel   +44 (1334) 463269
http://www.cs.st-and.ac.uk/~sal 	 Fax   +44 (1334) 463278
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