[TYPES/announce] The 8th Coq Workshop - 2nd CFP - deadline for submission: june 1st 2016

2016-05-12 Thread Nicolas Magaud
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The Eighth Coq Workshop (2016)
http://coq.inria.fr/coq-workshop/2016 
<http://coq.inria.fr/coq-workshop/2016>

Colocated with the 7th International Conference on Interactive 
Theorem Proving (ITP 2016) 
August 26, 2016 in Nancy, France



The Coq Workshop series brings together Coq users, developers, and 
contributors.  While 
conferences usually provide a venue for traditional research papers, the Coq 
Workshop focuses on
strengthening the Coq community and providing a forum for discussing practical 
issues, including the 
future of the Coq software and its associated ecosystem of libraries and tools. 
 Thus, the workshop will be 
organized around informal presentations and discussions, likely supplemented 
with invited talks.

Submission Instructions 

We invite all members of the Coq community to propose informal talks, 
discussion sessions, or any 
potential uses of the day allocated to the workshop.  Relevant subject matter 
includes but is not limited to:

 * Language or tactic features
 * Theory and implementation of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions
 * Applications and experience in education and industry
 * Tools and platforms built on Coq
 * Plugins and libraries for Coq
 * Interfacing with Coq
 * Formalization tricks and Coq pearls

Authors should submit short proposals through EasyChair.  Submissions should be 
in portable 
document format (PDF).  Proposals should not exceed 2 pages in length in 
single-column full-page style.

Venue: Nancy, France

Important Dates:

 * June 1: Deadline for proposal submission
 * June 15: Acceptance notification
 * August 26: Workshop in Nancy

Submission URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coq8 
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coq8>

Program committee: 

* Frédéric Blanqui, INRIA, France
* Adam Chlipala, MIT, United States
* Cyril Cohen, INRIA, France
* Pierre Courtieu, CNAM, France
* Jónathan Heras Vicente, University of La Rioja, Spain
* Robbert Krebbers, Aarhus University, Denmark
* Nicolas Magaud (co-chair), University of Strasbourg, France
* Micaela Mayero, Univeristy of Paris 7, France
* Julien Narboux (co-chair), University of Strasbourg, France
* Claudio Sacerdoti-Coen, University of Bologna, Italy
* Beta Ziliani, FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and CONICET, 
Argentina

Organization:

Contacts: Nicolas Magaud (mag...@unistra.fr <mailto:mag...@unistra.fr>), Julien 
Narboux (narb...@unistra.fr <mailto:narb...@unistra.fr>)



[TYPES/announce] PhD position available : Building reliable programs in computational geometry and certifying them with Coq

2007-08-30 Thread Nicolas Magaud
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A three-year PhD-student position is open at LSIIT 
(http://lsiit.u-strasbg.fr )
in the field of formal proofs in geometry. This proposal fits in the 
GALAPAGOS
research project which has been accepted by the french research agency 
(ANR) in 2007.

This thesis will be supervised by Professor Jean-François Dufourd and 
co-advised
by Nicolas Magaud (http://http://dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr/~jfd/ .

We would like it to start as soon as possible (at the end of 2007 at the 
latest).

Context :
-
In the GALAPAGOS project, we wish to apply computerized theorem proving 
tools to two aspects
of geometry. The first aspect concerns computational geometry, the 
second step concerns verifying
geometric reasoning steps in usual constructions, such as constructions 
with ruler and compass.

Thesis proposal : Building reliable programs in computational geometry 
and certifying them
--
This thesis aims at improving software quality and at designing new 
algorithms in the field
of computational geometry. To achieve this goal, we shall use 
combinatorial maps as our
topological model and use formal methods to specify, interactively prove 
and automatically
extract programs from their proofs of correctness.
This work will be carried out in the Calculus of Inductive Constructions 
and implemented
via the Coq proof assistant. From a specification and a constructive 
proof, its enables us
to extract an Ocaml program via the proofs-as-programs paradigm. This, 
the program is
certified, meaning that it always terminates and that it satisfies its 
specification.
Geometric objects we shall consider are plane subdivisions, modeled by 
embedded combinatorial
maps. Embeddings will be linear and most combinatorial maps involved 
will be planar.
This thesis will make us revisit classic problems in computational 
geometry, among them,
handling plane subdivisions, computing convex hulls, performing point 
location, co-refining
maps, computing Delaunay and Voronoï diagrams. This should be sufficient 
to show our methodology
benefits, especially proof techniques for structural and/or noetherian 
induction on subdivisions.
This will allow us to deal with more complex algorithms such as those 
required in 3D.

Contact Information :
-

For further information about this position, please contact either:

 Jean-François Dufourd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Nicolas Magaud[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Applications should be directed to 
{dufourd,[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Your application
should contain a resume and a cover letter as well as references (e.g. 
your Master's thesis advisor).

-- 
Nicolas Magaudmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LSIIT - UMR 7005 CNRS-ULPTel: (+33) 3 90 24 45 61
Bd Sébastien Brant - BP 10413Fax: (+33) 3 90 24 44 55
67412 ILLKIRCH CEDEX - FRANCEhttp://dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr/~magaud