Formal Methods Update Meeting 2026

Meeting Programme

The schedule below is tentative; further details will be added in due course.

July 1, 2026

TimeSpeakerTitle
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM Shibashis Guha Tutorial on Reactive Synthesis

July 2, 2026

TimeSpeakerTitle
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Opening Remarks
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Sujatha Ghosh A Modal Approach Towards Substitutions
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM TBA
Tea Break · 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM TBA
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Ashish Mishra Refinement Types: A Powerful Machinery for Verification, Synthesis and Testing
Tea Break · 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Abhishek Kr Singh State Reachability Under Weak Memory: From Decidability Frontiers to Visibility-Guided Testing
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Subodh Sharma
Lunch Break · 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM TBA
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM TBA
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Shweta Rajiv Bridging Bit-Vectors and Natural Numbers in Isabelle/HOL
Tea Break · 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Ramit Das Verifying Error Correction Coding Algorithms using Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Gourav Takhar Incorrectness Proofs with Underapproximation Invariants
Banquet

July 3, 2026

TimeSpeakerTitle
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM TBA
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Supratik Chakraborty Proof Systems for QBF Synthesis: Extracting Skolem and Herbrand Functions
Tea Break · 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM TBA
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Pranshu Gaba Sure-Almost-Sure and Sure-Limit-Sure Window Mean Payoff in Markov Decision Processes
Tea Break · 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Akshay S.
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Deepak D'Souza
Lunch Break · 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Sumanth Prabhu On Robustness of Linear Classifiers to Targeted Data Poisoning
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Amaldev Manuel Circuit Complexity of Regular Languages
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Neeraj Krishnan K On Generalised Star Height
Tea Break · 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Sreejith A V Regular Expressions over Countable Words
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM TBA

July 4, 2026

TimeSpeakerTitle
10:00 AM onwards Society for Electronic Transactions and Security Applied Formal Methods in Cryptography