[Om-announce] VMCAI 2009: Call for Participation

[Markus Mueller-Olm]

                    [Apologies for multiple copies]

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                           VMCAI 2009

                 Tenth International Conference on 
    Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation

              Savannah, GA, USA, January 18-20, 2009

                http://cs.uni-muenster.de/vmcai09

            Early registration deadline: December 19

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VMCAI 2009 is the 10th International Conference on Verification, Model
Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. VMCAI 2009 is co-located with
POPL 2009 and will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Savannah,
Georgia, USA, January 18-20, 2009. Information on how to register for
VMCAI is available from the conference web site:

     http://cs.uni-muenster.de/vmcai09

The early registration deadline is December 19, 2008.

VMCAI centers on state-of-the-art research relevant to analysis of
programs and systems and drawn from three research communities:
Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. A goal is
to facilitate interaction, cross-fertilization, and the advance of
hybrid methods that combine two or all three areas.  Topics covered by
VMCAI include program verification, program certification, model
checking, debugging techniques, abstract interpretation, abstract
domains, static analysis, type systems, deductive methods, and
optimization. The proceedings of the conference will be published in
the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.


Invited Talks:
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    Allen Emerson, co-recipient of 2008 Turing Award (Univ. of Texas):
       Model Checking: Progress and Problems

    Aarti Gupta (NEC Labs, Princeton): 
       Model Checking Concurrent Multi-Threaded Programs

    Mooly Sagiv (Tel-Aviv University): 
       Thread Modular Shape Analysis 


Invited Tutorials:
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    Byron Cook (Microsoft Research, Cambridge): 
       Proving Program Termination and Liveness

    Veronique Cortier (LORIA, CNRS, Nancy): 
       Verification of Security Protocols


Contributed Papers:
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    The VMCAI 2009 program encompasses 24 regular papers. The list of
    accepted papers is available on the conference web site.


Acknowledgements:
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VMCAI 2009 is held in cooperation with ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery). It is sponsored by EAPLS (European Association for
Programming Languages and Systems) and Microsoft Research.


Program Chairs:
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    Neil Jones, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Markus Müller-Olm, Universität Münster, Germany


Program Committee:
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    Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
    Ahmed Bouajjani, Université Paris 7, France
    Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    Patrick Cousot, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 
    Javier Esparza, Technische Universität München, Germany 
    Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL, USA 
    Michael Huth, Imperial College London, Great-Britain
    Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
    Sorin Lerner, University of California, San Diego, USA
    Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA 
    Pete Manolios, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
    Amir Pnueli, New York University, USA
    C. R. Ramakrishnan, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, USA
    Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI for Software Systems, Germany
    Helmut Seidl, Technische Universität München, Germany
    Henny Sipma, Stanford University, USA
    Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
    Greta Yorsh,  IBM TJ Watson Research Center, NY, USA 


Steering Committee:
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    Tino Cortesi, Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
    Patrick Cousot, École Normale Supérieure, France
    E. Allen Emerson, University of Texas at Austin, USA
    Giorgio Levi, University of Pisa, Italy
    Andreas Podelski, Universität Freiburg, Germany
    Thomas W. Reps, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
    David Schmidt, Kansas State University, USA 
    Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA