# Logic and Verification Seminar (Winter Semester 2019-2020)

The Logic and Verification seminar is a reading group gathering the members
of the Automatic Reasoning AG and students interested in formal methods
and more precisely in logic and verification.

## For students taking the seminar for credit

Your main role is to attend the weekly sessions, and contribute
to the discussions. Each session consists in a presentation of an article or
an ongoing research by a member of the group followed by
some questions and discussions.

As a student, you will read a scientific paper in logic and 
verification, summarize it in a report, and present it. There will be several
possible topics (see below). To help you with these tasks, a researcher of our
group will be assigned to you to supervise you and provide advice both for your
presentation and your report.

## When and where

Schedule and location:

 * Room: seminar room *34-420*
 * Date and time: **Tuesday 13:00** to 14:00
 * Kickoff meeting: Tuesday **05.11.2019** 13:30
 * Periodicity: every 2 weeks
 * Registration: send a mail to stan@cs.uni-kl.de with your name and matriculation number

## Available topics
- Semantics of imperative programming languages
- Algorithmic problems in the field of verification
- Operationalization of formal specification techniques
- SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) solving and decision procedures
- Database theory
- Modal and Temporal Logic

Some papers will be distributed at the kickoff meeting: [suggestions](https://arg-git.informatik.uni-kl.de/pub/ws19sem/blob/master/article-list.md).

## Instructors
- Prof. Anthony Lin
- Dr. Daniel Stan

## Planned sessions

The below schedule will be completed with information about the topics.

- 05.11.2019: **kickoff** meeting: [Slides](https://arg-git.informatik.uni-kl.de/pub/ws19sem/blob/master/kickoff.pdf)
- 19.11.2019: [Burcu Özkan](https://www.mpi-sws.org/people/burcu/) **Trace Aware Random Testing of Distributed Systems**
- 03.12.2019: discussions
- 17.12.2019: discussions on "**Modularity for Decidability of Deductive Verification with Applications to Distributed Systems**"
- 06.01.2020: