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NICTA Formal Methods Program

Annual Workshop

Sydney, 7-9 November 2005

The NICTA Formal Methods program will hold its annual Workshop Nov 7-9 to take a snapshot of current work in areas related to program's research interests, particularly its projects in operating systems verification, static analysis and formal methods for trusted wireless networks. The workshop will include several tutorials and presentations by international speakers, and there will be a special focus on research in formal methods for secure systems development.

Registration:
Attendance is open to all interested parties, but registration by 3 November 2005 is required. To register, please send an email to Belinda Crealy <belinda.crealy@nicta.com.au> with your contact information or call +61 2 8306 0475. Please indicate if you would like to have lunch at the workshop and if you have any dietary constraints.

Venue:
The workshop will be held in Sydney, Australia at the Kensington Campus of the University of New South Wales, in the NICTA seminar room on level 1 of building L5.

Important Dates:
The workshop will be held on 7-9 November 2005.
Registration is open until 3 November 2005.

Program

Nov 7:

9 - 10:30 Dusko Pavlovic (Kestrel): Tutorial (part 1)
Deriving, attacking and defending security protocols
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 Dusko Pavlovic (Kestrel): Tutorial (part 2)
Deriving, attacking and defending security protocols
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Colin Fidge (QUT)
Formalising Information Security Evaluations [slides]
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee
3:00 - 4:00 David Hardin (Rockwell Collins)
Proving Computing Platforms Correct for Security Applications
4:00 - 5:00 Harvey Tuch and Gerwin Klein (NICTA)
A Unified Memory Model for Pointers [slides]

Nov 8:

9:00 - 10:00 Ron van der Meyden (UNSW/NICTA)
Algorithmic Methods for Information Flow Analysis [slides]
10:00 - 11:00 Carroll Morgan (UNSW)
Refinement of Ignorance in Sequential Programs [slides]
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 Dennis Dams (Bell labs)
The Orion Static Program Analyzer
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Manuel Chakravarty & Simon Winwood (UNSW)
Securing Untrusted Code
2:30 - 2:50 Coffee break
2:50 - 3:50 Franck Cassez (CNRS Nantes)
Control of Timed Systems [slides]
3:50 - 4:50 Ralf Huuck (NICTA)
Syntactic Software Model Checking
4:50 - 5:00 break
5:00 - 6:00 Sebastian Maneth (NICTA)
Tutorial: Verification of Graph Properties Using Automata, Logic, and Context-Free Sets [slides]
7:30 - * WORKSHOP DINNER (at own expense, location TBA)

Nov 9:

9:00 - 10:30 Matthew Hennessy (Sussex U.)
Tutorial on Modelling mobile agents using the picalculus (part 1) [slides]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 Matthew Hennessy
Tutorial on Modelling mobile agents using the picalculus (part 2) [slides]
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Annabelle McIver (Macquarie U. & NICTA Fellow) and Tjark Weber
Towards automated proof support for probabilistic distributed systems
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee
3:00 - 4:00 Mike Spivey (Oxford)
Algebras for Combinatorial Search [slides]
4:00 - 5:00 Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA)
Congruence Formats in Structural Operational Semantics [slides]