[fg-arc] VerifyThis 2023: Call for Participation

[Stephen Siegel]

VerifyThis Verification Competition 2023

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- GRANTS -- PRIZES

Competition to be held at ETAPS 2023

http://verifythis.ethz.ch

IMPORTANT DATES

Grant Registration Deadline: April 7th, 2023
Registration deadline: April 14th, 2023
Competition: April 22nd and 23rd, 2023

ABOUT THE COMPETITION

VerifyThis 2023 is a program verification competition taking place as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2023) on 22 and 23 April 2023. It is the 11th event in the VerifyThis competition series. Information on previous events and participants can be found at: http://verifythis.ethz.ch

The aims of the competition are:

* to bring together those interested in formal verification, and to provide an engaging, hands-on, and fun opportunity for discussion, and

* to evaluate the usability of logic-based program verification tools in a controlled experiment that could be easily repeated by others.

The competition will offer a number of challenges presented in natural language and pseudo code. Participants have to formalize the requirements, implement a solution, and formally verify the implementation for adherence to the specification.

There are no restrictions on the programming language and verification technology used. The correctness properties posed in problems will have the input-output behaviour of programs in focus. Solutions will be judged for correctness, completeness and elegance.

PARTICIPATION

Participation is open for anybody interested. Teams of up to two people are allowed. VerifyThis will be held at ETAPS 2023 in Paris, each challenge will be given 90 minutes. More details and a full program will be announced on the website.

We particularly encourage participation of:

- people from under-represented communities
- student teams (this includes PhD students)  
- non-developer teams using a tool someone else developed 
- several teams using the same tool

## GRANTS

The competition has funds for a limited number of registration grants, sponsored by Amazon AWS. Grants will cover the registration costs for ETAPS. To apply for a grant, fill out the relevant section of the registration form and, if you are a student, have your supervisor send a brief letter of support to the following address: verifythis at googlegroups.com

## PRIZES

Thanks to our sponsors, VerifyThis typically offer team prizes such as the best overall team, the most distinguished tool features and the best student team. VerifyThis 2023 prizes are sponsored by Amazon AWS.

REGISTRATION

Please register by filling out the following form: https://forms.gle/muWABKXkX6taPM9r9

Grant Deadline: April 7th, 2023
Deadline: April 14th, 2023

ORGANIZERS

Stephen Siegel, University of Delaware, United States
Xavier Denis, Université Paris-Saclay, France

STEERING COMMITTEE

Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland
Peter Müller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mattias Ulbrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

CONTACT Email: verifythis at googlegroups.com    Web: http://verifythis.ethz.ch