[Apologies for cross-posting]
We are seeking after applicants for the PhD project
Compiler Optimization for Shuttling-Based Quantum Computing Architectures (COSMOS)
to be pursued at RWTH Aachen University.
The goal of this project is to develop systematic support for compiling quantum software to computing architectures featuring qubit shuttling operations, which allow to dynamically reconfigure the quantum circuit between subsequent gate operations. They are common for quantum computing architectures based on semiconductor qubits, trapped ions, or neutral atoms. While there exists a large body of work for non-shuttling architectures, advanced compilation methods that allow to move qubits are rather scarce. We aim to provide a contribution to this field in the form of a systematic framework building on graph transformations, which will enable the use of classical compiler optimization techniques to be applied in a quantum setting. The resulting gain in algorithmic efficiency will accelerate the advent of applications on shuttling based architectures.
The project is a cooperation between the JARA-FIT Institute for Quantum Information and the Software Modeling and Verification (MOVES) Group at RWTH Aachen University and will be jointly supervised by Hendrik Bluhm and Thomas Noll.
The application deadline is September 30, 2023 (AoE), and the expected starting date is early 2024. For further details, please refer to <https://moves.rwth-aachen.de/vacancies/cosmos/>.
[Apologies for multiple copies.]
We are looking for applicants for the PhD project
“Towards Zero-Defect Quantum Programs”
at RWTH Aachen University.
The aim of the project is to develop methods for statically analysing
programs intended for near-term quantum computers by combining
techniques from the verification of probabilistic programs and the
verification of quantum programs. This shall enable developers on
quantum hardware to drastically reduce the amount of testing and
simulation required, and to detect errors early in the program design
and to understand them more easily, thus streamlining the software
development process and significantly reducing testing and simulation
costs. A particular focus will be on near-term systems with realistic
error models (NISQ), and on use-cases from practice.
The project is a cooperation between the Chair of Quantum Information
Systems and the Software Modeling and Verification (MOVES) group at RWTH
Aachen University and will be jointly supervised by Joost-Pieter Katoen
and Dominique Unruh.
Application deadline: September 25, 23:59 (AoE)
Required profile. Candidates must have (or soon obtain) a master degree
in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related area and have
completed their studies with excellent grades. You should have interest
in performing original, highly competitive scientific research,
publishing your results in top conferences and scientific journals.
Self-motivation and the ability to work both independently and as a team
player in local and international research groups are expected. Fluency
in English is required; proficiency in German is helpful but not compulsory.
What do we offer? We offer a stimulating international research
environment, the possibility to participate in highly competitive and
interdisciplinary research and the opportunity to involve students in
your research through project work. Doctoral researchers have a status
as employee with a salary according to the German federal employee scale
TV-L E13; the exact salary is subject to your family situation. The
duration of the position is four years.
For further details see:
https://dominique-unruh.github.io/qis-chair/positions/zero-defect.html
Aufruf zur Teilnahme
22. Kolloquium Programmiersprachen und Grundlagen der Programmierung
Aachen, 24.-27. September 2023
https://kps2023.moves.rwth-aachen.de
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Das 22. Kolloquium Programmiersprachen und Grundlagen der Programmierung
(KPS 2023) setzt eine traditionelle Reihe von Arbeitstagungen fort, die 1980
von den Forschungsgruppen der Professoren Friedrich L. Bauer (TU München),
Klaus Indermark (RWTH Aachen) und Hans Langmaack (CAU Kiel) ins Leben gerufen
wurde. Die Veranstaltung ist ein offenes Forum für alle interessierten
deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftler:innen zum zwanglosen Austausch neuer Ideen
und Ergebnisse aus den Forschungsbereichen Entwurf und Implementierung von
Programmiersprachen sowie Grundlagen und Methodik des Programmierens.
Die wissenschaftlichen Beiträge werden in einem informellen Tagungsband
zusammengefasst, der online zur Verfügung gestellt wird. Eine formale Auswahl
der Beiträge durch Begutachtung findet nicht statt. Dieses Veranstaltungsformat
ermöglicht es den Vortragenden, neue Ideen zu präsentieren und sie mit anderen
Teilnehmer:innen zu diskutieren. Insbesondere möchten wir junge Doktorand:innen
einladen und ermutigen, ihre Arbeiten einem fachkundigen Publikum vorzustellen
und mit diesem ins Gespräch zu kommen.
Das Kolloquium findet vom 24. bis 27. September 2023 im niederländischen Vaals
im Kasteel Bloemendal <https://www.schlosshotelbloemendal.de> statt, welches
von Aachen aus gut erreichbar ist. Nähere Informationen sind unter
<https://kps2023.moves.rwth-aachen.de> zu finden. Die Gesamtkosten inkl. drei
Übernachtungen im Einzelzimmer und aller Mahlzeiten betragen ca. 635 € pro Person;
diese sind im Hotel zu zahlen.
Die verbindliche Anmeldung zur Teilnahme kann ab sofort und
bis Montag, den 24. Juli 2023
unter <https://kps2023.moves.rwth-aachen.de/registration/>
erfolgen. Dort können auch (unverbindlich) Vorträge angekündigt werden; die
entsprechenden Details fragen wir nach dem Anmeldeschluss in einer separaten
Mail ab. Sollten Sie Ihre Daten nicht in das Formular eintragen wollen,
können diese auch gerne per Mail an <kps2023(a)i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
übermittelt werden. In der Hoffnung, Sie im September in Aachen willkommen zu
heißen, grüßen Sie
Thomas Noll & Ira Fesefeldt
Organisation: Wichtige Termine:
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Thomas Noll, Ira Fesefeldt Anmeldung bis: 24.07.2023
Lehrstuhl Informatik 2 Beiträge bis: 24.08.2023
RWTH Aachen Kolloquium: 24.-27.09.2023
Ahornstr. 55
52056 Aachen
kps2023(a)i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Dear Colleague,
The deadline for SEFM'23 (21st Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Formal Methods) has been extended. The new dates are:
Abstract submission: 16 June 2023 (AoE)
Paper submission: 23 June 2023 (AoE)
Artifact submission (tool papers): 30 June 2023 (AoE)
Artifact submission (regular papers): 30 June 2023 (AoE)
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Call for Papers - SEFM'23
21st Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Formal Methods
8-10 November 2023
Up-to-date information: https://sefm-conference.github.io/2023/
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SEFM'23 will be held at Eindhoven University of Technology, from Nov. 8 - 10, 2023, with workshops on Nov. 6 and 7.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission: 16 June 2023 (AoE)
Paper submission: 23 June 2023 (AoE)
Notification: 18 August 2023
Camera-ready submission: 10 September 2023
Conference: 8 – 10 November 2023
OVERVIEW AND SCOPE
The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods.
# Software Development Methods
- Formal modelling, specification, and design
- Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse
# Design Principles
- Programming languages
- Domain-specific languages
- Type theory
- Abstraction and refinement
# Software Testing, Validation, and Verification
- Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
- Testing and runtime verification
- Statistical and probabilistic analysis
- Synthesis
- Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional
properties
- Other light-weight and scalable formal methods
# Security and Safety
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems
- Software certification
# Applications and Technology Transfer
- Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things
- Component, object, multi-agent, and self-adaptive systems
- Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
- Intelligent systems and machine learning
- HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis
- Education
# Case studies, best practices, and experience reports
PAPER SUBMISSION
We solicit two categories of papers:
Regular papers describing original research results, case studies, or surveys, should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography of at most two pages).
Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its contributions should not exceed 8 pages (including bibliography of at most one page).
Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers (see http://www.springer.com/lncs).
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2023.
ARTEFACT EVALUATION
This edition of SEFM introduces an artefact evaluation (AE). An artefact contains any necessary material to support the claims made in the paper and ideally makes the results fully reproducible. Submission of an artefact is optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. The artefacts will be judged by the Artefact Evaluation Committee (AEC). Artefacts can be submitted up-to one week after the paper submission deadline.
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will
be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series.
The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues of the journal "Software and Systems Modeling" (SoSyM).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna
Julien Brunel, ONERA
Radu Calinescu, University of York
Taolue Chen, Birkbeck, University of London
Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland
Loek Cleophas, TU Eindhoven and Stellenbosch University
Alcino Cunha, University of Minho
Carla Ferreira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (co-chair)
Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta
Hubert Garavel, INRIA
Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad, Mathematical Institute SASA
Christian Johansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Daniela Kaufmann, TU Wien
Zhiming Liu, Southwest University
Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, Delft University of Technology
Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor
Charles Morisset, Newcastle University
Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy
Rocco De Nicola, IMT - School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo
Jovanka Pantovic, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences
Gwen Salaün, Université Grenoble Alpes
Augusto Sampaio, Federal university of Pernambuco
Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University
Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg
Pierre-Yves Schobbens, University of Namur
Bernardo Toninho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and NOVA-LINCS
Rolando Trujillo, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
Tim Willemse, Eindhoven University of Technology (co-chair)
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Best wishes,
Carla Ferreira
Department of Computer Science,
NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Tim Willemse
Department of Computer Science & Mathematics
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dear Colleague,
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Call for Papers - SEFM'23
21st Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Formal Methods
8-10 November 2023
Up-to-date information: https://sefm-conference.github.io/2023/
************************************************************************
SEFM'23 will be held at Eindhoven University of Technology, from Nov. 8 - 10, 2023, with workshops on Nov. 6 and 7.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission: 2 June 2023 (AoE)
Paper submission: 9 June 2023 (AoE)
Notification: 18 August 2023
Camera-ready submission: 10 September 2023
Conference: 8 – 10 November 2023
OVERVIEW AND SCOPE
The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods.
# Software Development Methods
- Formal modelling, specification, and design
- Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse
# Design Principles
- Programming languages
- Domain-specific languages
- Type theory
- Abstraction and refinement
# Software Testing, Validation, and Verification
- Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
- Testing and runtime verification
- Statistical and probabilistic analysis
- Synthesis
- Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional
properties
- Other light-weight and scalable formal methods
# Security and Safety
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems
- Software certification
# Applications and Technology Transfer
- Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things
- Component, object, multi-agent, and self-adaptive systems
- Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
- Intelligent systems and machine learning
- HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis
- Education
# Case studies, best practices, and experience reports
PAPER SUBMISSION
We solicit two categories of papers:
Regular papers describing original research results, case studies, or surveys, should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography of at most two pages).
Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its contributions should not exceed 8 pages (including bibliography of at most one page).
Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers (see http://www.springer.com/lncs).
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2023.
ARTEFACT EVALUATION
This edition of SEFM introduces an artefact evaluation (AE). An artefact contains any necessary material to support the claims made in the paper and ideally makes the results fully reproducible. Submission of an artefact is optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. The artefacts will be judged by the Artefact Evaluation Committee (AEC). Artefacts can be submitted up-to one week after the paper submission deadline.
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will
be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series.
The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues of the journal "Software and Systems Modeling" (SoSyM).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna
Julien Brunel, ONERA
Radu Calinescu, University of York
Taolue Chen, Birkbeck, University of London
Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland
Loek Cleophas, TU Eindhoven and Stellenbosch University
Alcino Cunha, University of Minho
Carla Ferreira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (co-chair)
Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta
Hubert Garavel, INRIA
Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad, Mathematical Institute SASA
Christian Johansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Daniela Kaufmann, TU Wien
Zhiming Liu, Southwest University
Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, Delft University of Technology
Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor
Charles Morisset, Newcastle University
Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy
Rocco De Nicola, IMT - School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo
Jovanka Pantovic, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences
Gwen Salaün, Université Grenoble Alpes
Augusto Sampaio, Federal university of Pernambuco
Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University
Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg
Pierre-Yves Schobbens, University of Namur
Bernardo Toninho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and NOVA-LINCS
Rolando Trujillo, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
Tim Willemse, Eindhoven University of Technology (co-chair)
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Best wishes,
Carla Ferreira
Department of Computer Science,
NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Tim Willemse
Department of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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T.A.C. Willemse (T.A.C.Willemse(a)TUe.nl<mailto:T.A.C.Willemse@TUe.nl>)
Chair Formal System Analysis
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
+31 40 2472999 (voice)
http://www.win.tue.nl/~timwhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-3049-7962
--
************************************************************************
Call for Papers - SEFM'23
21st Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Formal Methods
8-10 November 2023
Up-to-date information: https://sefm-conference.github.io/2023/
************************************************************************
SEFM'23 will be held at Eindhoven University of Technology, from Nov. 8 - 10, 2023, with workshops on Nov. 6 and 7.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission: 2 June 2023 (AoE)
Paper submission: 9 June 2023 (AoE)
Notification: 18 August 2023
Camera-ready submission: 10 September 2023
Conference: 8 – 10 November 2023
OVERVIEW AND SCOPE
The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods.
# Software Development Methods
- Formal modelling, specification, and design
- Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse
# Design Principles
- Programming languages
- Domain-specific languages
- Type theory
- Abstraction and refinement
# Software Testing, Validation, and Verification
- Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
- Testing and runtime verification
- Statistical and probabilistic analysis
- Synthesis
- Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional
properties
- Other light-weight and scalable formal methods
# Security and Safety
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems
- Software certification
# Applications and Technology Transfer
- Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things
- Component, object, multi-agent, and self-adaptive systems
- Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
- Intelligent systems and machine learning
- HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis
- Education
# Case studies, best practices, and experience reports
PAPER SUBMISSION
We solicit two categories of papers:
Regular papers describing original research results, case studies, or surveys, should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography of at most two pages).
Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its contributions should not exceed 8 pages (including bibliography of at most one page).
Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers (see http://www.springer.com/lncs).
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2023.
ARTEFACT EVALUATION
This edition of SEFM introduces an artefact evaluation (AE). An artefact contains any necessary material to support the claims made in the paper and ideally makes the results fully reproducible. Submission of an artefact is optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. The artefacts will be judged by the Artefact Evaluation Committee (AEC).
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will
be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series.
The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues of the journal "Software and Systems Modeling" (SoSyM).
************************************************************************
Carla Ferreira
Department of Computer Science,
NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Tim Willemse
Department of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
--
T.A.C. Willemse (T.A.C.Willemse(a)TUe.nl<mailto:T.A.C.Willemse@TUe.nl>)
Chair Formal System Analysis
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
+31 40 2472999 (voice)
http://www.win.tue.nl/~timwhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-3049-7962
--
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: APRIL 15
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
MARKTOBERDORF SUMMER SCHOOL 2023 ON
SAFETY AND SECURITY THROUGH FORMAL VERIFICATION
August 2-11 2023
https://events.model.in.tum.de/mod23
* The Marktoberdorf Summer School is an 11-day event for young
computer scientists and mathematicians, typically doctoral and
post-doctoral researchers. It provides mini-courses on
state-of-the-art topics in "Safety and Security through Formal
Verification" and leaves ample room for interaction between
participants and speakers.
* Apply online at
https://events.model.in.tum.de/mod23/participation.shtml
Deadline: April 15
* Speakers and Courses:
PAROSH AZIZ ABDULLA:
Algorithmic Verification of Infinite-State Systems
JASMIN BLANCHETTE:
Provers and Solvers
BYRON COOK:
Cloud Reasoning
JAVIER ESPARZA:
Interactve Proof Systems: From Theory to Practice
JAN KRETINSKY:
Learning-Aided Probabilistic Verification and Synthesis
ANCA MUSCHOLL
Distributed Synthesis and Control
ALEKSANDAR NANEVSKI:
Type and Proof Structures for Concurrent Programs
CORINA PASAREANU:
Symbolic Execution and Quantitative Reasoning:
Applications to Software Safety and Security
GRIGORE ROSU:
Automated Synthesis of Temporal-Logic Specifications
JAMES WORRELL:
Orbit Problems for Dynamical Systems
HONGSEOK YANG:
Probabilistic Programming
--
Prof. Javier Esparza
Faculty of Computer Science
Technical University of Munich
Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching
Dear D-Con Participants,
the programme is now online
(https://fm2023.isp.uni-luebeck.de/index.php/co-located-events/#dcon).
We are happy to announce two invited Speakers. Heike Wehrheim will tell
us something about view-based semantics and logics for weak memory
models and Klaus von Gleissenthall something about the verification of
security across hardware and software.
@Speakers: In order to avoid parallel sessions the schedule is
relatively tight. Besides the slots for invited talks, there are 30min
Slots that capture a talk of 20min and 10min for questions and 50min
Slots that capture a talk of 40min and 10min for questions.
@Business Meeting: At the end of Thursday there is a 30min Slot for our
Business Meeting. Since this is rather little time, we would like to
collect topics for the Business Meeting beforehand. Please send all
suggestions to kirstin.peters(a)uni-a.de. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Kirstin Peters
Dear Participants of D-Con,
as usual we would like to organiser two informal dinners: on Wednesday
March 08 and on Thursday March 09. To organise these dinners, i.e., to
make a reservation, we need the rough number of people attending.
Could you please send me (kirstin.peters(a)uni-a.de) a short mail with how
many of you are planning to join us for dinner on Wednesday and how many
of your are planning to join us for dinner on Thursday. Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Kirstin
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
MARKTOBERDORF SUMMER SCHOOL 2023 ON
SAFETY AND SECURITY THROUGH FORMAL VERIFICATION
August 2-11 2023
https://events.model.in.tum.de/mod23
* The Marktoberdorf Summer School is an 11-day event for young
computer scientists and mathematicians, typically doctoral and
post-doctoral researchers. It provides mini-courses on
state-of-the-art topics in "Safety and Security through Formal
Verification" and leaves ample room for interaction between
participants and speakers.
* Registration opens on February 9, 2023. Register online at
https://events.model.in.tum.de/mod23/participation.shtml
Deadline: April 15
* Speakers and Courses:
PAROSH AZIZ ABDULLA:
Algorithmic Verification of Infinite-State Systems
JASMIN BLANCHETTE:
Solvers and Provers
BYRON COOK:
Cloud Reasoning
JAVIER ESPARZA:
Interactve Proof Systems: From Theory to Practice
JAN KRETINSKY:
Learning-Aided Probabilistic Verification and Synthesis
ANCA MUSCHOLL
Distributed Synthesis and Control
ALEKSANDAR NANEVSKI:
Type and Proof Structures for Concurrent Programs
CORINA PASAREANU:
Symbolic Execution and Quantitative Reasoning:
Applications to Software Safety and Security
GRIGORE ROSU:
Automated Synthesis of Temporal-Logic Specifications
JAMES WORRELL:
Orbit Problems for Dynamical Systems
HONGSEOK YANG:
Probabilistic Programming
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--
Prof. Javier Esparza
Faculty of Computer Science
Technical University of Munich
Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching
