2017 New England Systems Verification Day

The 2017 New England Systems Verification Day will take place on Friday, October 6th, 2017, in room 32-G449 ("Kiva") at the Stata Center (32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139).

For any attendees that are around on Thursday, October 5th, 2017 (the day before the workshop), we will organize a dinner in the evening.

Schedule

Time Speaker Topic
Long talks on larger projects
8:30am Luke Nelson, Helgi Sigurbjarnarson, Xi Wang (U. Washington) [LONG] Push-button verification
9:30am Bryan Parno, Chris Hawblitzel, et al. (Microsoft Research) [LONG] Everest
10:30am BREAK
Medium-length talks on hardware verification
11:00am Pramod Subramanyan et al. (UC Berkeley and MIT) [MEDIUM] Specification and verification of trusted platforms
11:20am Andrew Myers (Cornell) [MEDIUM] Hardware information flow
11:40am Murali Vijayaraghavan (MIT) [MEDIUM] Verified Bluespec designs
Noon Lunch
Long talks on larger projects
1:30pm Andres Erbsen, Jade Philipoom, Jason Gross (MIT) [LONG] Verified elliptic curve crypto
2:30pm Zhong Shao, Ronghui Gu, et al. (Yale) [LONG] CertiKOS
3:30pm BREAK
Medium-length talks unrelated to hardware verification
4:00pm Jay Lorch et al. (Microsoft Research) [MEDIUM] Verifying concurrent programs
4:20pm Benjamin Delaware et al. (Purdue and MIT) [MEDIUM] Fiat
4:40pm Tej Chajed et al. (MIT) [MEDIUM] FSCQ
Short talks on problems for verification
5:00pm Nick Mathewson (Tor) [SHORT] Tor
5:05pm Chris Casinghino (Draper) [SHORT] Extracting good specifications from engineers
5:10pm Benjamin Kaiser (Lincoln) [SHORT] Formally verified software updates for aircraft and satellites
5:15pm Jon McCune (Google) [SHORT] Security root-of-trust chip
5:20pm Jon Howell (Google) [SHORT] Using Verification in Anger
Short talks on other verification projects
5:25pm Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne (Amazon) [SHORT] Timing side channels for crypto code
5:30pm Greg Morrisett (Cornell) [SHORT] CertiCoq
5:35pm Alley Stoughton, Mayank Varia (Boston U.) [SHORT] EasyCrypt meets UC
5:40pm Carsten Varming (Amazon) [SHORT+] Checking equivalence of access-management policies
5:50pm BREAK
6:00pm Reception / dinner

Talk details

The schedule contains three types of talks:
  • LONG talks are 45 minutes, plus 15 minutes for questions / discussion. The goal for LONG talks is to have a quick 5-minute introduction followed by a 40-minute in-depth tour of code, specs, and proofs.
  • MEDIUM talks are 15 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions.
  • SHORT talks are 5 minutes.

Contact

Please send any questions to Adam Chlipala, Frans Kaashoek, and/or Nickolai Zeldovich.