PROGRAM
18th International Workshop on the
ACL2 Theorem Prover and Its Applications
(
ACL2-2023)

Notes:

Sunday, November 12: Day 0
19:30 -
21:30
RECEPTION Outdoors at:
Meanwhile Brewing
3901 Promontory Point Dr, Austin, TX 78744
https://www.meanwhilebeer.com/
Monday, November 13: Day 1
08:30 COFFEE and SNACKS
  Session 1 (chair: Alessandro Coglio)
09:00 Welcome
09:10 Eric Smith
(Kestrel Institute)
Invited talk 1
Formal Verification with Axe and ACL2
10:10 Grant Passmore ACL2 Proofs of Nonlinear Inequalities with Imandra
10:40 BREAK
  Session 2 (chair: Mark Greenstreet)
11:10 David Russinoff A Formalization of Finite Group Theory: Part II
11:40 David Russinoff A Formalization of Finite Group Theory: Part III
(For slides, see link above for Part II.)
12:10 LUNCH BREAK (lunch not provided)
  Session 3 (chair: Mertcan Temel)
13:40 Alessandro Coglio (speaker)
Eric McCarthy
Eric Smith
Formal Verification of Zero-Knowledge Circuits
[Note: The link above is to a pdf; here is a link to the animated (.ppsx) version]
14:10 Ruben Gamboa (speaker)
Panagiotis Manolios
Eric Smith
Kyle Thompson
Using Counter-Example Generation and Theory Exploration to Suggest Missing Hypotheses
14:40 BREAK
  Session 4 (chair: Eric McCarthy)
15:00 Carl Kwan
Yutong Xin (speaker)
William D. Young
CHERI Concentrate in ACL2 [extended abstract]
15:20 Carl Kwan Classical LU Decomposition in ACL2 [extended abstract]
15:40 David Hardin Verification of a Rust Implementation of Knuth's Dancing Links using ACL2
16:10 BREAK
  Session 5 (chair: Sol Swords)
16:30 Rump Session 1
17:00 Business Meeting and Technical Discussion
18:00 Day 1 program ends
19:00 -
21:30
CONFERENCE DINNER (BANQUET) Fresa's South First
1703 S. 1st St., Austin, TX 78704
https://www.fresaschicken.com/
Tuesday, November 14: Day 2
08:30 COFFEE and SNACKS
  Session 1 (chair: Shilpi Goel)
09:00 Jim Grundy
(Amazon Web Services)
Invited talk 2
Applying Formal Verification to Make a Difference
10:00 Max von Hippel (speaker)
Panagiotis Manolios
Ken McMillan
Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Lenore Zuck
A Case Study in Analytic Protocol Analysis in ACL2
10:30 BREAK
  Session 2 (chair: Warren Hunt)
11:00 Ankit Kumar (speaker)
Max von Hippel
Panagiotis Manolios
Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Verification of GossipSub in ACL2s
11:30 Andrew T. Walter (speaker)
Ankit Kumar
Panagiotis Manolios
Proving Calculational Proofs Correct
12:00 LUNCH BREAK (lunch not provided)
  Session 3 (chair: Anna Slobodova)
13:30 Matt Kaufmann (speaker)
J Moore
What's New in the ACL2 System
14:30 Rump Session 2
14:45 BREAK
  Session 4 (chair: J Moore)
15:05 Alessandro Coglio What's New in the Community Books
16:05 Sol Swords A Bound-Finding Tool for Arithmetic Terms [extended abstract]
16:25 BREAK
  Session 5 (chair: Rob Sumners)
16:35 Matt Kaufmann
J Moore
Advances in ACL2 Proof Debugging Tools
17:05 Rump Session 3
17:50 Workshop ends

NOTE: If you'd like to join in an informal post-workshop dinner, let Matt Kaufmann know before 10 am Tuesday, Nov. 14. Details are here.