Interested in theoretical cryptography and/or formal methods? Boston University is hosting a summer school on Universally Composable Security and the EasyUC framework for formalizing UC models and proofs.

The school is from August 11 - 14, 2025. Registration is free, and we're supporting both in person and Zoom participation.

For more information and to register, visit:

https://www.bu.edu/riscs/events/uc-easyuc-summer-school/

#Cryptography #FormalMethods

UC/EasyUC Summer School | Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security

Kiro and the future of AI spec-driven software development | Lobsters

PhD Position Symbolic AI and Reasoning Under Uncertainty

PhD Position Symbolic AI and Reasoning Under Uncertainty

🔒 We’re hiring a postdoc at Inria SUSHI (Rennes, FR)! Work on formal verification of security across compilers, OS & hardware (e.g., RISC-V, CompCert). 📍 Rennes 🇫🇷 | 💶 ~€3K–3.2K/mo | 🛠️ Formal methods + security 📧 guillaume.hiet@inria.fr team.inria.fr/sushi/files/... #Hiring #FormalMethods #RISC-V

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Concurrent Programming with Harmony | Lobsters

ESBMC - An Efficient SMT-based Bounded Model Checker

https://ssvlab.github.io/esbmc/

"ESBMC is an open-source, [...], context-bounded model checker based on satisfiability modulo theories for verifying single- and multi-threaded C/C++ programs. It does not require the user to annotate the programs with pre- or postconditions, but allows the user to state additional properties using assert-statements, that are then checked as well."

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#SMT #FormalVerification #FormalMethods #ModelChecking

ESBMC: An Industrial-Strength C Model Checker

SMT-based Context-Bounded Model Checker for C Programs.

ESBMC

Verifying the #Rust Standard Library - Carolyn Zech, Amazon Web Services

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=8_lzVNs1uPk
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lzVNs1uPk)

Carolyn is also a maintainer of #Kani, the Rust model checker.
She has been so supportive and kind during my struggles with HashMaps and Kani 🥺

https://github.com/model-checking/kani/issues/3965

Give her a follow:
https://github.com/carolynzech

#FormalVerification #FormalMethods #RustLang #Testing #SoftwareEngineering

abominable, devilish rebellion against the gunwale, tumbled back to the immaculate

Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) 2025: Types, Logic, and Formal Methods https://lobste.rs/s/cga7nb #video #education #formalmethods #plt
https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer25/topics.php
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