[DL] Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems & Applications

[Manuel Lamotte]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Please consider the below call for participation in our summer school 
on Verification Technology, Systems & Applications, September 15-19, 2008. 
The school aims at participants starting at the bachelor level. 

Please forward the announcement to potentially interested students 
and researchers. 

thanks, best 
 Stephan Merz 
 Christoph Weidenbach 
 Manuel Lamotte 
 Roxane Wetzel 

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                 * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *

                                1st Summer School

               Verification Technology, Systems & Applications

                         VTSA 2008

          Saarbruecken, Germany, September 15-19, 2008

             http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa08/

PROGRAM
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We believe that all three aspects verification technology, systems & 
applications strongly  
depend on each other and that progress in the area of formal analysis and 
verifiation can  
only be made if all three aspects are considered as a whole. Our five 
speakers  

        Clark Barrett        SAT and SMT: Theory and Practice 
        Gilles Barthe        Formal Methods for Software Correctness and 
Security 
        Martin Fraenzle         Automatic Analysis of Hybrid Systems
        Radu Mateescu        Model Checking of Action-Based Concurrent 
Systems 
        Grégoire Sutre         Software Model Checking 

stand for this view in that they represent and will present a particular 
verification technology  
and its implementation in a system in order to successfully apply the 
approach to real world  
verification problems. 

PARTICIPATION
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The number of participants in the school is limited to 40. We expect 
participants to hold a  
bachelor (or higher) degree in computer science (or equivalent) and to 
have basic knowledge  
in propositional and first-order logic. 

Please apply electronically by sending an email to Manuel Lamotte (lamotte 
(at) mpi-inf.mpg.de)  
including 

        - a one page CV  
        - an application letter explaining your interest in the school and 
your experience in the area  
        - a copy of your bachelor certificate (or equivalent or a more 
significant certificate) 

until the 20th of July, 2008. Notifications on acceptance will be given by 
July, 31st. 
The registration will be open to accepted applicants starting on August, 
1st, 2008. 

LOCATION & TRAVEL INFORMATION
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VTSA will be held at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics
in Saarbruecken, Germany. Saarbruecken is the capital of one of
Germany's 16 federal states, the Saarland. It is conveniently located
in the center of Europe, on the border of Germany with France, between
Luxembourg, the Saar-Mosel valley, Frankfurt, and Strasbourg. Being
located on several main train and road routes, Saarbruecken is easily
reachable from Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Paris, or Luxembourg.
Saarbruecken also has its own (small) international airport. 

ABOUT VTSA
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The scope of VTSA is international and it is addressed at students holding 
 
a bachelor degree or researchers. The goal of VTSA is to bridge theory, 
system 
development and applications in formal analysis and verification. 

VTSA is supported by the German-French University, INRIA, the Max Planck 
Institute for Informatics, and the Graduate School on Trustworthy Software 
Systems.

CONTACT
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The homepage of VTSA, providing further details can be found at

                http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa08 

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us
by sending an email to Roxane Wetzel (address is wetzel at mpi-inf.mpg.de)

Organizers: Stephan Merz & Christoph Weidenbach 
Local Organizers: Manuel Lamotte & Roxane Wetzel
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