Abstract: Although in many occasions the protection of information systems is achieved by implementing obscure procedures, the pro...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Nicolas Amat, PhD Student, CNRS, FranceWhat is polyhedral reduction? ...and how we use it to accelerate the verification of reachability problems for Petri nets.
Abstract: In this talk, we present a new framework, called polyhedral abstraction, for checking safety properties on Petri nets, t...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Mahak Pancholi, PhD Student, Aarhus University, DenmarkHow to make SNARKs non-malleable
Abstract: Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge proofs (NIZKs) allow a prover to convince a verifier about the validity of a claim withou...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Alexander Bagnall, PhD Researcher, Ohio University, USAFormally Verified Samplers from Probabilistic Programs with Loops and Conditioning
Abstract: In this talk, we give a brief introduction to probabilistic programming and present Zar: a formally verified compiler pi...
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Kristina Sojakova, Research Engineer, INRIAA Core Calculus for Equational Proofs of Cryptographic Protocols
Abstract: Many proofs of interactive cryptographic protocols (e.g., as in Universal Composability) operate by proving the protocol...
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Christos Mavridis, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Maryland, USAProgressive Learning for Inference, Verification, and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems
Abstract: The continuously increasing interest in intelligent autonomous systems underlines the need for new developments in cyber...
Friday, April 14, 2023
Georgios Portokalidis, Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, USAHarder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Establishing Trustworthy Software and Systems
Abstract: Computer systems and software play a vital role in the functioning of our society. Ensuring their security is of utmost ...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Bineet Ghosh, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USADesign and Verification of Autonomous Systems in the Presence of Uncertainties
Abstract: Autonomous Systems offer hope towards moving away from mechanized, unsafe, manual, often inefficient practices. Last dec...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Divya Ravi, Post-doctoral Researcher, Aarhus University, DenmarkSecure Multi-party Computation: Computing on Private Data
Abstract: Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) allows a set of mutually distrusting parties to jointly perform a computation on the...
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Alfonso Pierantonio, Professor, University of L'Aquila, ItalyExploring the Impact of Open Access Challenges and Opportunities for the Community
Abstract: Open Access (OA) is a mechanism that allows for free and immediate access to research results and data. It aims to enhan...
Monday, February 13, 2023
Albert Rubio, Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SpainCircom: Scalability and security for building ZK proving systems
Abstract: The most widely studied language for expressing statements in the context of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs is arithmetic ci...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Pierre Sutra, Associate Professor, Telecom SudParis, FranceJ-NVM: Off-heap Persistent Objects in Java
Abstract: Non-volatile main memory (NVMM) is a new tier in the memory hierarchy that offers jointly the durability of spinning dis...
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Sebastian Uchitel, Professor, Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad De Buenos Aires, Argentina.Runtime Synthesis for Self-Adptation
Abstract: Self-adaptation is often defined as the ability of systems to alter at runtime their behaviour in response to changes in...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Dmitry Chistikov, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, United KingdomSubcubic certificates for the CFL reachability problem
Abstract: The context-free language (CFL) reachability problem on graphs (as well as a closely related problem of language emptine...
Monday, January 30, 2023
Sebastian Uchitel, Professor, Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad De Buenos Aires, Argentina.Predicate Abstractions for Smart Contract Validation
Abstract: Smart contracts are immutable programs deployed on the blockchain that can manage significant assets. Because of this, v...