After successful completion of the course, students are able to...
- read scientific papers,- understand the content as well as the significance of a paper,- literature research,- present scientific work in an accessible manner
The seminar covers selected topics in the field of formal methods. The course revolves around seminal research papers in the fields of program analysis, automated reasoning and computer-aided verification. Each student will be assigned one research paper. The students are expected to read and understand the paper and prepare and present a half-hour talk on the topic.
Papers proposed and to be supervised by Daniela Kaufmann
Daniela Kaufmann, Armin Biere and Manuel Kauers Verifying Large Multipliers by Combining SAT and Computer Algebra FMCAD 2019 pp 28-36, https://doi.org/10.23919/FMCAD.2019.8894250. Yoni Zohar, Ahmed Irfan, Makai Mann, Aina Niemetz, Andres Nötzli, Mathias Preiner, Andrew Reynolds, Clark Barrett, and Cesare Tinelli Bit-Precise Reasoning via Int-Blasting. VMCAI 2022 pp 496-518 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94583-1_24 Marijn J.H. Heule, Manuel Kauers, Martina Seidl New ways to multiply 3 × 3-matrices, Journal of Symbolic Computation, Volume 104, 2021, pp 899-916 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2020.10.003 Stephan Gocht, Ruben Martins, Jakob Nordström, and Andy Oertel Certified CNF Translations for Pseudo-Boolean Solving SAT 2022 pp 16:1-16:25 https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2022.16
Papers proposed and to be supervised by George Kenison
Daneshvar Amrollahi, Ezio Bartocci, George Kenison, Laura Kovács, Marcel Mossbrugger, and Miroslav Stankovic"Solving Invariant Generation for Unsolvable Loops"Static Analysis 2022pp. 19--43https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22308-2_3
George Kenison, Richard Lipton, Joël Ouaknine, and James Worrell"On the Skolem Problem and Prime Powers"ISSAC 2020 pp. 289--296 https://doi.org/10.1145/3373207.3404036
Ashish Tiwari "Termination of Linear Programs" CAV 2004 pp. 70--82https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27813-9_6
Manuel Kauers and Veronika Pillwein"When Can We Detect That a P-Finite Sequence is Positive?"ISSAC 2010pp. 195–201https://doi.org/10.1145/1837934.1837974
The first objective is to read and understand the content as well as the significance of the assigned paper, and read up on related work if the paper is not self-contained. Prior to preparing the presentation, students are expected to discuss the papers in a meeting with the lecturer.
The objectives of the presentation are to present the topic in a manner accessible for their fellow students. Students are required to present and discuss their slides with the lecturer prior to giving the presentation.
RESOURCES:
How to give a good talk (by Simon Peyton Jones, given in Vienna, October 2004):
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk.htm
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Students will be graded based on:
1.) Ability to read and understand the papers assigned to them. Theeffort and initiative to independently read and understand the paper and to read up on related work will determine 50% of the grade. Thestudents' understanding of the paper will be evaluated during themeetings with the lecturer and by means of questions after the talk.
2.) Ability to present the material in an accessible way to their fellowstudents. The clarity and style of the presentation as well as thestudents' effort to prepare the talk (e.g., by designing their ownexamples rather than reusing material from the paper) determine 50% of the grade.
Additional information on grading: The relative difficulty of thepaper will be taken into account. Asking meaningful questions aboutthe presentations of fellow students will have a positive impacton the grade (attendance of these talks is compulsory).
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ECTS Breakdown:40 hours for reading papers and related work, 20 hours for preparing the presentation, 15 hours of attending talks and meetings with the lecturer.---------------------------------------75 hours (3 ECTS)---------------------------------------
ORGANISATION:
The topics and the organization of the seminar will be discussed during the initial meeting on TBD (in a Zoom meeting; link will be sent to all registered participants).
Students signed up for the course who are unable to attend should contact us as soon as possible.
Students are expected to read assigned papers, search relevant literature and prepare scientific presentation on the paper. Students are expected to meet at least twice with their supervisors: once to clarify questions about the paper and to discuss an initial draft of their presentation, and once to discuss the full set of slides and improve the presentation.
Students signed up for the course who are unable to attend should contact us as soon as possible (email george.kenison@tuwien.ac.at).Electronic versions of the papers will be provided to the students.