Organized by
CS Dept
Stanford University
Stanford University

Combination of Decision Procedures
Summer School 2004

August 9-11, 2004
Uemura room, International Building
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA 94025
U.S.A.

Goals

The summer school aims at providing a focused in-depth overview of the latest research done in combination of decision procedures, with a strong preference towards practical applications and tools. The target audience includes academic and industry researchers in formal methods, graduate students in logic, computer science, and engineering, and anyone interested in combination of decision procedures.

Program

Time Mon, Aug 9Tue, Aug 10Wed, Aug 11Thu, Aug 12
9:00-9:15BreakfastBreakfastBreakfastSpill-Over Session
9:15-10:30Cesare TinelliVijay GaneshAshish Tiwari
10:30-10:45 Break Break Break
10:45-12:00Sava KrsticSava KrsticHarald Ruess
12:00-1:15Lunch Lunch Lunch
1:15-2:30Rajeev JoshiSergey BerezinClark Barrett
2:30-2:45 Break Break Break
2:45-4:00Cesare TinelliVijay GaneshAshish Tiwari
4:00-4:15 Break Break Break
4:15-5:30Leonardo De MouraSanjit Seshia and Shuvendu LahiriHarald Ruess
5:30-5:45

Speakers

Cesare Tinelli University of Iowa Nelson-Oppen combinations, latest advances including non-disjoint signatures, deterministic and non-deterministic algorithms, fusion methods.
Clark Barrett New York University CVC Lite + HOL light; Non-clausal decision heuristic; Partial functions.
Ashish Tiwari SRI International Decision procedure for congruence closure, extensions, combinations with other decision procedures, polynomial rings, Grobner basis, quantifier elimination.
Sergey Berezin Stanford University CVC Lite: An Efficient Theorem Prover Based on Combination of Decision Procedures
Leonardo De Moura SRI International ICS tool
Sanjit Seshia and Shuvendu Lahiri CMU UCLID: Deciding Combinations of Theories via Eager Translation to SAT
Rajeev Joshi JPL Verifun: A Theorem Prover Using Lazy Proof Explication
Sava KrsticIntel Strategies for combining decision procedures, generalizing Nelson-Oppen and Shostak methods.
Harald RuessSRI International Modularity and Refinement of Inference Systems for Equality
Vijay Ganesh Stanford University Combination results for many-sorted theories with overlapping signatures
Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy TSAT++ theorem prover
Byron Cook Microsoft Research Zapato/ZAP theorem provers
Sumit Gulwani UC Berkeley Randomized join algorithms for linear arithmetic and uninterpreted functions

Registration

Registration is done by email: summerschool2004@verify.stanford.edu.

Please send your name and affiliation. If you have any dietary restrictions or other special needs, please let us know. A small registration fee (about $60 USD, to cover food services and conference room) will be accepted at the registration desk in cash (sorry, no credit cards).

Student registration is free, thanks to our sponsors.

Logistics

The summer school will be held in the heart of the Silicon Valley at SRI International, one of the most well-known research institutes in the United States.

SRI International is located near downtown Menlo Park with plenty of restaurants, speciality stores, and other sights of interest. Stanford University is within 10 min of driving distance. Other nearby attractions include San Francisco, Santa Cruz mountains and the Pacific ocean, which are easily reached within 1 hour.

See Location and Directions page for more information.

Transportation and parking

For those who are flying in, there are three major airports in the area:

San Francisco and San José airports are the most convenient choices. You can rent a car at the airport, take a cab, or take a train to Menlo Park station, which is within a walking distance from SRI International.

Parking is free for visitors near the Building I at SRI (where the school will be held). See the Location page for more information.

Accomodation

The participants are expected to arrange for their own accomodation. Here are a few hotels and motels near SRI International, with many other possible options:
Menlo Park
Miles from SRI Name and Address Telephone
0.6 Menlo Park Inn, 1315 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025 +1 (650) 326-7530, +1 (800) 327-1315
1.2 Mermaid Inn Motel, 727 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025 +1 (650) 323-9481
Palo Alto
Miles from SRI Name and Address Telephone
1.0 Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel, 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94301 +1 (650) 328-2800
4.8 Motel 6, 4301 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 (650) 949-0833

Contact Information

Organizing Committee:
Vijay Ganesh, Stanford University, Hardware Verification Group
Sergey Berezin, Stanford University Hardware Verification Group
Henny Sipma, Stanford University, CS-Theory Group

For more information about the school, please contact us at summerschool2004@verify.stanford.edu.

Sponsors

Microsoft Research Intel Corporation

If you would like to become a sponsor, please contact us at summerschool2004@verify.stanford.edu.

Acknowledgements

The organizing committee thanks John Rushby, N. Shankar, and Nora Ongpin (SRI International) for their kind help in organizing this summer school.

© 2004 Sergey Berezin, Vijay Ganesh, Henny Sipma