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[Gudmund Grov <ggrov AT staffmail.ed.ac.uk>]

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Call for Participation
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SSFRR 2010 
SICSA Summer School on Formal Reasoning & Representation of Complex Systems
14-15 August 2010 -- Heriot-Watt University campus -- Edinburgh
Satellite summer school of VSTTE 2010

http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ssfrr-2010/
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ABOUT
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The summer school will give a broad overview of software verification 
techniques, 
addressing both bottom-up and top-down approaches with a strong focus on the 
formal representation and reasoning themes. The school consists of eight 
introductory 
lectures, each concentrating on an unique aspect of one or both of the 
overall 
themes. The topics of the lectures include inductive theorem proving; SAT and 
SMT
solving; proof planning and rippling; rely/guarantee conditions; separation 
logic; operating system verification;  process algebras and formal analysis 
of security.

The school is intended for PhD students and researchers working within one or 
both of 
these themes, however familiarity with any of the techniques is not a 
prerequisite. 
All lectures are meant to be introductory. 

PRESENTERS
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The following will present at the summer school:

* Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde) & Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt 
University) 
* Alan Bundy & Lucas Dixon (University of Edinburgh)
* Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh)
* Cliff Jones (University of Newcastle)
* Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia)
* J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin)
* Natarajan Shankar (SRI)
* Graham Steel (INRIA)

REGISTRATION
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Registration is available from: 

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10_reg/Registration.php

The registration fee is £110, which also covers materials and lunches.
Accommodation at the Heriot-Watt campus (£42.50 per night incl. VAT and
breakfast) can be including with your booking when you register.
This is highly recommended since the summer school will coincide with several 
of the famous 
Edinburgh festivals -- where hotel prices in town tend to be very inflated. 

SICSA will cover registration and two nights campus accommodation for SICSA 
students (students
from most Scottish Universities -- see http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/ to check if ;
you are eligible).
The number of SICSA students is limited, and a decision on ranking if this 
number is exceeded
will only be taken if necessary.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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The summer school has the following preliminary program (timing and titles 
may still change):

Saturday:
* 09:00: Registration
* 09:30: J Moore -- Machines Reasoning about Machines - 39 Years and Counting
* 11:00: Coffee break
* 11:30: Gerwin Klein -- Specification and Refinement in Operating System 
Verification
* 13:00: Lunch
* 14:00: Bob Atkey/Ewen Maclean -- Amortised Resource Analysis and Functional 
Correctness with Separation Logic
* 15:30: Coffee break
* 16:00: Alan Bundy/Lucas Dixon -- Proof-planning, inductive reasoning, and 
beyond
* 17:30: End

Sunday:
* 09:30: Natarajan Shankar -- Verification using SAT and SMT solvers
* 11:00: Coffee break
* 11:30: Graham Steel -- Formal Analysis of Key Management APIs
* 13:00: Lunch
* 14:00: Cliff Jones -- Tackling concurrency by reasoning explicitly about 
inference
* 15:30: Coffee break
* 16:00: Jane Hillston -- From Milner to Markov and Back: Stochastic process 
algebras and their equivalence relations
* 17:30: End

VENUE
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The summer school is a satellite event of VSSTE 2010 (see 
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/) and 
will be held the two days before the main event: Saturday 14th and Sunday 
15th August 2010. 
Like VSTTE 2010, it will be held at the Edinburgh campus of Heriot-Watt 
University.

ORGANISERS
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The summer school is jointly organised by The School of Informatics at 
Edinburgh University and
The School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University by:
* Lucas Dixon (Edinburgh)
* Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh)
* Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt)

CONTACT
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The organisers can be contacted at the following email address: 
ssfrr-2010 AT inf.ed.ac.uk.
-- 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.