<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>********************************************************************************</div><br>VerifyThis Verification Competition 2021<br><br>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- GRANTS -- PRIZES<br><br>Competition to be held at ETAPS 2021 (Virtual)<br><br><a href="http://verifythis.ethz.ch" target="_blank">http://verifythis.ethz.ch</a><br><br>********************************************************************************<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>Registration deadline: March 13, 2021<br>Competition: March 26 and 27, 2021<br><br>ABOUT THE COMPETITION<br><br>VerifyThis 2021 is a program verification competition taking place as part of<br>the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021)<br>on 26 and 27 March 2021. It is the 9th event in the VerifyThis competition<br>series. Information on previous events and participants can be found at:<br><a href="http://verifythis.ethz.ch" target="_blank">http://verifythis.ethz.ch</a><br><br>The aims of the competition are:<br>- to bring together those interested in formal verification, and to provide<br>an engaging, hands-on, and fun opportunity for discussion, and<br>- to evaluate the usability of logic-based program verification tools in a<br>controlled experiment that could be easily repeated by others.<br><br>The competition will offer a number of challenges presented in natural language<br>and pseudo code. Participants have to formalize the requirements, implement a<br>solution, and formally verify the implementation for adherence to the<br>specification.<br><br>There are no restrictions on the programming language and verification<br>technology used. The correctness properties posed in problems will have the<br>input-output behaviour of programs in focus. Solutions will be judged for<br>correctness, completeness and elegance.<br><br>PARTICIPATION<br><br>Participation is open for anybody interested. Teams of up to two people are<br>allowed. VerifyThis will be a virtual event with some synchronous sessions via<br>video call, and a 24 hour window for teams to solve problems at their own<br>convenience. More details and a full program will be announced on the website.<br><br>We particularly encourage participation of:<br> - people from under-represented communities<br> - student teams (this includes PhD students)<br> - non-developer teams using a tool someone else developed<br> - several teams using the same tool<br><br>GRANTS<br><br>The competition has funds for a limited number of registration grants, sponsored<br>by Amazon AWS. Grants will cover the registration costs for ETAPS. To apply for<br>a grant, fill out the relevant section of the registration form and, if you are<br>a student, have your supervisor send a brief letter of support to the following<br>address:<br><a href="mailto:verifythis@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">verifythis@googlegroups.com</a><br><br>PRIZES<br><br>Thanks to our sponsors, VerifyThis typically offer team prizes such as the best<br>overall team, the most distinguished tool features and the best student team.<br>As VerifyThis 2021 will be a virtual event, we plan to increase the number of<br>team prizes and the prize money amount this year. VerifyThis 2021 prizes are<br>sponsored by Amazon AWS.<br><br>REGISTRATION<br><br>Please register by filling out the following form:<br><a href="https://forms.gle/kZpGKMVkRrRyidiq8" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/kZpGKMVkRrRyidiq8</a><br><br>Deadline: March 13, 2021<br><br>ORGANIZERS<br>* Siddharth Krishna, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK<br>* Wytse Oortwijn, ESI (TNO), Netherlands<br><br>STEERING COMMITTEE<br>* Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, the Netherlands<br>* Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland<br>* Peter Müller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland<br>* Mattias Ulbrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany<br><br>CONTACT<br>Email: <a href="mailto:verifythis@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">verifythis@googlegroups.com</a><br>Web: <a href="http://verifythis.ethz.ch" target="_blank">http://verifythis.ethz.ch</a><br><br><br></div>
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