[Om-announce] FMCAD'08: Early registration ends Oct. 16th (Call for Participation)

[Lee Pike]

Please note that early registration ends Oct. 16th, and the hotel  
registration deadline is Oct. 18th.

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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                              FMCAD 2008
International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
                        http://fmcad.org/2008

                         November 17-20, 2008
                  Embassy Suites Portland--Downtown
                           Portland, Oregon

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Important Dates
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  Early Registration Deadline: October 16, 2008
  Hotel Registration Deadline: October 18, 2008

Conference Overview
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  FMCAD 2008 is the eighth in a series of conferences on the theory
  and application of formal methods in hardware and system design and
  verification. In 2005, the bi-annual FMCAD and sister conference
  CHARME decided to merge to form an annual conference with a unified
  community. The resulting unified FMCAD provides a leading
  international forum to researchers and practitioners in academia and
  industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods,
  technologies, theoretical results, and tools for formally reasoning
  about computing systems, as well as open challenges therein.

Local Information
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  The Conference will be held at the Embassy Suites (Downtown) in
  Portland, Oregon.  We have negotiated a special rate with the hotel
  for conference attendees.  Please book early to secure the reduced
  rate.  For details, please see the conference web page.  A dinner
  cruise on the Willamette River is planned.

Technical Program
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  The technical program is available at the conference web page.  It
  includes 2 invited keynotes, 4 invited tutorials, 24 regular papers,
  4 short papers, and 2 panels.

  Keynotes
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  o Ken McMillan (Cadence): Interpolation -- Theory and Applications
  o Carl Seger (Intel): Formal Methods and Physical Design: Match Made
    in Heaven or Fools' Paradise?

  Tutorials
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  o Kevin Jones (Rambus): Analog and Mixed Signal Verification: The
    State of the Art and some Open Problems
  o Moshe Levinger (IBM): Building a Bridge: From Pre-Silicon
    Verification to Post-Silicon Validation
  o Byron Cook (Microsoft): Computing Bounds on Space and Time for
    Hardware Compilation.
  o David Hardin (Rockwell Collins): Considerations in the Design and
    Verification of Microprocessors for Safety-Critical and
    Security-Critical Applications.

  Panels
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  o High Level Design and ESL: Who Cares?
  o The Future of Formal: Academic, IC, EDA, and Software Perspectives

Sponsors
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         Sponsored by: IEEE CEDA
  In cooperation with: ACM SIGDA
    Financial support: Cadence, Galois, IBM, Intel, NEC, Synopsys

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