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-<h4> Two new postdoc positions at Imperial! </h4> 
+<h4> Two new postdoc positions at Imperial College! </h4> 
 
-We are seeking two outstanding postdocs (one theory, one practice) with
-interests in the formal specification and verification of concurrent
-and  distributed systems to join the Program Specification and
-Verification Group at Imperial.
+We are seeking two outstanding postdocs (one dominantly theoretical, one 
+dominantly practical) with strong interests in the formal specification and 
+verification of concurrent and distributed systems to join the Program 
+Specification and Verification Group, led by Professor Philippa Gardner,
+at Imperial College London.
 
-These positions are funded as part of "REMS: Rigorous Engineering of
-Mainstream Systems", a large 6-year EPSRC-funded programme grant between
-Cambridge, Edinburgh and Imperial which finishes in 2019.
+These positions will be funded as part of <a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/rems/" 
+target="_blank"> "REMS: Rigorous Engineering of Mainstream Systems"</a>, a large 6-year 
+EPSRC-funded programme grant between Cambridge, Edinburgh and Imperial, which 
+finishes in 2019.
 
-Concurrent programs are notoriously difficult to get right.  At
+Concurrent programs are notoriously difficult to get right when it
+comes to specification and verification.  At
 Imperial, we have considerable expertise in specifying concurrent
 libraries and verifying concurrent programs.  In particular, our
-recent work has focussed on the extension of concurrent separation
-logic to handle abstraction, abstract atomicity and fault
+recent work has been focussed on the extension of concurrent separation
+logic to handle abstraction, abstract atomicity, and fault
 tolerance. We have applied this reasoning to, for example, concurrent
 indexes (B-trees and java.util.concurrent skip lists), the POSIX file
-system and an ARIES database recovery algorithm.
+system, and an ARIES database recovery algorithm.
 
-Our immediate research aims are  to develop the fundamental principles
+Our immediate research aims are to develop the fundamental principles
 underlying reasoning about concurrent systems, to extend the reasoning
 to distributed systems, and to test the reasoning on key applications
-such as databases, file systems and data centres.
+such as databases, file systems, and data centres.
 
-Please see the project web page for more details, and do not
+Please take a look at our Project web page for more details, and do not
 hesitate to contact us if you are interested in one of these postdoc
 positions.