[TYPES/announce] NFM 2019: Call for Participation (Hotel Block Closing Shortly)

[Kristin Yvonne Rozier]

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      The Eleventh NASA Formal Methods Symposium

https://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/R2/pages/nfm2019.html

                    7 - 9 May 2019
         Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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*** Hotel Block Closing March 15! ***

Theme of the Symposium:
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The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and 
safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require 
advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, 
verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA 
Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration 
between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and 
industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide 
solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems.

New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for 
uncrewed deep space human habitats, caretaker robotics, Unmanned Aerial 
Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), and the need for 
system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new 
challenges for system specification, development, and verification 
approaches. The focus of these symposiums are on formal techniques and 
other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current 
capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to 
aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems 
during all stages of the software life-cycle.

The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is an annual event organized by the 
NASA Formal Methods (NFM) Steering Committee, comprised of researchers 
spanning several NASA centers. NFM 2019 
(https://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/R2/pages/nfm2019.html) is being 
co-organized by Rice University and NASA- Johnson Space Center in 
Houston, TX.


Location & Cost:
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The symposium will take place in the McMurtry Auditorium, Rice 
University, Houston, Texas, USA, May 7--9, 2019. Travel information and 
discounted hotel reservations can be found at: 
https://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/R2/pages/nfm2019.html. Houston hotels are 
scarce for these dates and the hotel block expires March 15.

There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested 
individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen 
to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees 
must register.


Keynote Speakers:
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* Virginie Wiels, ONERA, France
* Richard Murray, CalTech, USA
* NASA Panel: Challenges for Future Exploration
-- Kimberly Hambuchen, Space Technology Principle Technologist for Robotics
-- Emily Nelson, Deputy Chief, Flight Director Branch
-- Joe Caram, Gateway Systems Engineering and Integration Lead
-- Bill Othon, Gateway Verification and Validation Lead


Organizers:
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Moshe Y. Vardi (General Chair)
Julia Badger (PC Chair)
Kristin Yvonne Rozier (PC Chair)


Programme Committee:
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Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft, USA
Sylvie Boldo, INRIA, France
Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University, UK
Gianfranco Ciardo, Iowa State University, US
Darren Cofer, Rockwell Collins, USA
Frederic Dadeau, FEMTO-ST, France
Ewen Denney, NASA, US
Gilles Dowek, INRIA and ENS Paris-Saclay, France
Steven Drager, AFRL, US
Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France
Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France
Aaron Dutle, NASA, US
Marco Gario, Siemens Corporate Technology, USA
Alwyn Goodloe, NASA, US
Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada
John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA
Klaus Havelund, JPL/NASA, USA
Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Shafagh Jafer, Embry-Riddle University, USA
Xiaoqing Jin, Toyota Technical Center, USA
Rajeev Joshi, JPL/NASA, USA
Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Joe Leslie-Hurd, Intel, US
Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA
Cristian Mattarei, Stanford University, US
Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Cesar Munoz, NASA, US
Anthony Narkawicz, NASA, US
Necmiye Ozay, University of Michigan, USA
Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA, USA
Lee Pike, USA
Johann Schumann, SGT, USA
Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden
Bernhard Steffen, University of Dortmund, Germany
Stefano Tonetta, FBK-IRST, Italy
Ufuk Topcu, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Christoph Torens, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Michael Watson, NASA, USA
Huan Xu, University of Maryland, US

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