[TYPES/announce] Summer school on formal methods and networks

[Nate Foster]

             Summer School on Formal Methods and Networks
                           June 10-14, 2013
                          Cornell University
                           Ithaca, NY, USA

INTRODUCTION

In many areas of computing, techniques ranging from testing to formal
modeling to full-blown verification have been successfully used to
help programmers create reliable systems. For example, in processor
development, automated theorem proving uncovers deep bugs in designs
before they become costly errors in silicon; avionics developers use
program analysis to verify critical safety properties of the embedded
software running on airplanes; and operating system vendors have
successfully used model checking to eliminate entire classes of bugs
in device drivers. But, until recently, networks have largely resisted
analysis using formal techniques.

The goal of this summer school is to bring together leading
researchers and graduate students to study recent research results on
applying formal methods to networks. The curriculum will consist of a
series of lectures on topics from theoretical frameworks for modeling
network behavior to practical techniques and tools. The lectures will
be designed to be accessible to a general computer science audience
and will not assume advanced knowledge of formal methods or networks.

SPEAKERS

Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research)
Satisfiability Modulo Theories Solving for Network Verification

Brighten Godfrey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Verifying Networks in Real Time

Timothy Griffin (University of Cambridge)
Partial Automation in the Design and Implementation of Path-finding Algorithms

Arjun Guha (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Network Programming With Frenetic

Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University)
Modeling and Reasoning about Network Components

Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research)
Systematically Exploring the Behavior of Control Programs

Nick McKeown and Peyman Kazemian (Stanford University)
Network Verification Using Header Space Analysis

Pamela Zave (AT&T Research)
Compositional Abstractions of Network Architectures

REGISTRATION

Information coming soon...

SUPPORT

Generous support for the summer school is provided by the National
Science Foundation under grants CNS-1111698 and CNS-1111520. To
encourage broad participation, registration fees will be kept low, and
we expect to be able to offer a number of student travel scholarships.

ORGANIZERS

Nate Foster (Cornell University)
Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)
David Walker (Princeton University)