CSE-653: Seminar in Concurrency

Fall 2002


Class Place and Time:

Regular Meetings: CS Seminar Room (1306), 12noon -1:00pm
Organizational Meeting: Thursday, Sept 5, 2pm, Applied Logic Lab.

Prerequisites:

Graduate standing in the Computer Science Department; graduate courses in Programming Languages, Concurrency or Logic Programming, or permission of instructor.

Topics:

This seminar will focus on issues in verification of concurrent systems, particularly of infinite-state systms. The seminar will consist of a series of presentations of (a) papers and articles in the area of infinite-state system verification and logic-programming based verification, and (b) recent research results of the LMC group at Stony Brook.

Schedule:

Here is the schedule of presentations which will be updated as the speakers are elected/selected/volunteered. See here for a list of possible papers to be discussed in the seminar.

Date Presenter Topic
0. Sep 05   Organizational Meeting
1. Sep 10 C.R. Ramakrishnan Infinite State System Verification in the LMC Lab
  Sep 17   Monday schedule, no seminar
2. Sep 24 Samik Basu Verification of Push-Down Systems
3. Oct 01 Beata Sarna-Starosta Data Independence and Symmetry
4. Oct 08 Giridhar Pemmasani Verification of Real-Time Systems
5. Oct 15 Dezhuang Zhang Symbolic Model Checking of Value-Passing Systems
6. Oct 22 Luis Castro Convergence Acceleration
7. Oct 29 Diptikalyan Saha Automatic Abstraction (first two papers on the list)
8. Nov 05 Shabbir Dahodwala Model Extraction
  Nov 12   No Meeting (originally scheduled talk postponed to Dec 10.)
9. Nov 19 Fuxiang Yu Verifying systems with infinite but regular state space
  Nov 26   Thanksgiving, no seminar
10. Dec 3 Rahul Agarwal Putting Static Analysis to Work for Verification: A Case Study
T. Lev-Ami, T. Reps, M. Sagiv, and R. Wilhelm, ISSTA 2000.
11. Dec 10 Ping Yang Verification of Mobile Processes

Mailing List


Instructor:

C.R. Ramakrishnan
Office: 1420 Computer Science Building, 632-8218
email: cram AT cs DOT sunysb DOT edu


C.R. Ramakrishnan