[clean-list] FMCAD'08: Call for Participation (Nov. 17-20, Portland, Oregon, USA)

[Lee Pike]

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                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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                               FMCAD 2008
  International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
                         http://fmcad.org/2008

                          November 17-20, 2008
                   Embassy Suites Portland--Downtown
                            Portland, Oregon

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Important Dates
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   Early Registration Deadline: October 14, 2008
   Hotel Registration Deadline: October 18, 2008

Conference Overview
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   FMCAD 2008 is the eighth in a series of conferences on the theory
   and application of formal methods in hardware and system design and
   verification. In 2005, the bi-annual FMCAD and sister conference
   CHARME decided to merge to form an annual conference with a unified
   community. The resulting unified FMCAD provides a leading
   international forum to researchers and practitioners in academia and
   industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods,
   technologies, theoretical results, and tools for formally reasoning
   about computing systems, as well as open challenges therein.

Local Information
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   The Conference will be held at the Embassy Suites (Downtown) in
   Portland, Oregon.  We have negotiated a special rate with the hotel
   for conference attendees.  Please book early to secure the reduced
   rate.  For details, please see the conference web page.  A dinner
   cruise on the Willamette River is planned.

Technical Program
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   The technical program is available at the conference web page.  It
   includes 2 invited keynotes, 4 invited tutorials, 24 regular papers,
   4 short papers, and 2 panels.

   Keynotes
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   o Ken McMillan (Cadence): Interpolation -- Theory and Applications
   o Carl Seger (Intel): Formal Methods and Physical Design: Match Made
     in Heaven or Fools' Paradise?

   Tutorials
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   o Kevin Jones (Rambus): Analog and Mixed Signal Verification: The
     State of the Art and some Open Problems
   o Moshe Levinger (IBM): Building a Bridge: From Pre-Silicon
     Verification to Post-Silicon Validation
   o Byron Cook (Microsoft): Computing Bounds on Space and Time for
     Hardware Compilation.
   o David Hardin (Rockwell Collins): Considerations in the Design and
     Verification of Microprocessors for Safety-Critical and
     Security-Critical Applications.

   Panels
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   o High Level Design and ESL: Who Cares?
   o The Future of Formal: Academic, IC, EDA, and Software Perspectives

Sponsors
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          Sponsored by: IEEE CEDA
   In cooperation with: ACM SIGDA
     Financial support: Cadence, Galois, IBM, Intel, NEC, Synopsys

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