No.005 Automated Techniques for Higher-Order Program Verification

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Shonan Meeting Seminar 005

Overview

With the increasing importance of software reliability, program
verification has been an important and hot research topic.? Recently,
we have seen some good progress in automated techniques for
verification of higher-order programs. Studies of game semantics have
yielded compositional model checkers and automated program equivalence
checkers for Algol-like programming languages, and studies of
higher-order recursion schemes and pushdown automata have yielded
model checkers for higher-order functional programs. Classical control
flow analysis has been recently revisited to yield more precise and/or
efficient methods than Shivers’ k-CFA.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers on automated
techniques for higher-order program verification and analyses, and
provide them with an opportunity to exchange new research results, and
discuss further extensions. The workshop also aims for
cross-fertilization of different techniques for higher-order program
verification, such as game semantics, type theories, higher-order
grammars and pushdown systems, control flow analyses, and abstract
interpretation.

To participants: please leave your comments here.

Schedule

See also the tentative technical program.

All the technical sessions take place in R209 of Research Wing.

22nd September (Thursday)

15:00 — Hotel Check In (early check-in from 12:00 is negotiable if informed in advance)
19:00 — 21:00: Welcome Reception (Room “Azalea”, 1F)

23rd September (Friday)

7:30 — 9:00: Breakfast (Oak room)
9:45 — 10:00: Welcome and Introduction
10:00 — 12:00: Morning Session
12:00 — 13:30: Lunch (Oak room)
13:30 — 18:00: Afternoon Session
18:00 — 19:30: Dinner (Oak room)
19:30 — Free Time

24th September (Saturday)

7:30 — 9:00: Breakfast (Oak room)
9:00 — 12:00: Morning Session
12:00 — 13:30: Lunch (Oak room)
13:30 — 18:00: Afternoon Session
18:00 — 19:30: Dinner (Oak room)
19:30 — Free Time

25th September (Sunday)

7:30 — 9:00: Breakfast (Oak room)
9:00 — 12:00: Morning Session
12:00-12:15: group photo
12:15 — 13:30: Lunch (Oak room)
13:30 — 18:00: Excursion (Kamakura tour)
18:00 — 19:30: Banquet (Japanese restaurant “Hachinoki”)

26th September (Monday)

7:30 — 9:00: Breakfast (Oak room)
9:00 — 12:00: Morning Session
11:30 — 13:30: Lunch (Oak room)
13:30 — 17:00: Afternoon Session
17:00 — 17:10: Closing
18:00–19:30: Dinner (Oak room, only for those who stay for the night)

27th September (Tuesday)
7:30 — 9:00: Breakfast (Oak room)
9:00 — 10:00 Hotel Check Out

Participants

Fritz Henglein ?? ? ?? ?????? (University of Copenhagen)
Kazuhiro Inaba ?? ??????? ? (Google)
Suresh Jagannathan ?? ?(Purdue University)
Thomas Jensen ?? ? ?? ? ? ? (INRIA)
Ranjit Jhala ?? ? ?? ???????????? (University of California, San Diego)
Neil D. Jones ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? (University of Cophenhagen)
Jean-Pierre Jouannaud ?? ?(LIX, Ecole Polytechnique)
Naoki Kobayashi?? ??? ? ?? (Tohoku University)
Martin Lester?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? (University of Oxford)
Jan Midtgaard ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? (Aarhus University)
Matthew Might ?? ? ?? ? ? ? (University of Utah)
Yasuhiko Minamide ?? ?(University of Tsukuba)
Andrzej Murawski ?? ? ?? (University of Leicester)
Keisuke Nakano ?? ???????? (University of Electro-Communications)
Robin Neatherway ?? ?? (University of Oxford)
Luke Ong?? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? (University of Oxford)
Luca Paolini ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? (Università di Torino)
Steven Ramsay ?? ? ?? ? ?? (University of Oxford)
Tachio Terauchi ?? ???????? (Nagoya University)
Akihiko Tozawa ? ? ? ? ?? (IBM Research, Tokyo)
Takeshi Tsukada?????????? (Tohoku University)
Nikos Tzevelekos????????? (University of Oxford)
Hiroshi Unno ?? ??? ? ? ? ? ? (Tohoku University)
David Van Horn?? ? ? ?? ? ? (Northeastern University)
Dimitrios Vardoulakis ?? ?(Northeastern University)

Organizer

Naoki Kobayashi?? ??? ?(Tohoku University)
Luke Ong?? ??? ? ? ? ? ??? (University of Oxford)
David Van Horn?? ??? ?? (Northeastern University)

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