----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> -----
** CALL FOR PAPERS **
31st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
(ESORICS) 2026, Rome, Italy (September 21-25, 2026)
ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security.
The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European
countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the
academic and industrial communities.
ESORICS 2026 at Rome invites you to submit your previously unpublished
research work for peer review. We are looking for papers with
high-quality, original, and unpublished research contributions. The
Symposium will start on September 21, 2026 with an exciting technical
program, including vetted papers, invited talks, and collocated
workshops. This year's symposium will have two review cycles.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
(All dates are in AoE; firm deadlines)
WINTER CYCLE:
Submission Deadline: January 09, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2026
Camera-Ready Submission: March 24, 2026
SPRING CYCLE:
Submission Deadline: April 21, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: June 12, 2026
Camera-Ready Submission: June 26, 2026
*TOPICS OF INTEREST*
Submissions are solicited in the following areas relating to computer
security, including but not limited to:
- Access Control
- Anonymity and Censorship Resistance
- Artificial Intelligence for Security
- Audit and Accountability
- Cyber Attack (e.g., APTs, botnets, DDoS) prevention, detection,
investigation, and response.
- Data and Computation Integrity
- Database Security
- Digital Content Protection
- Digital Forensics
- Disinformation, Fake News Detection
- Formal Methods for Security and Privacy
- Governance and Management
- Hardware Security
- Identity Management
- Information Flow Control
- Information Hiding
- Intrusion Detection
- Language-based Security
- Malware and Unwanted Software
- Network Security
- Phishing and Spam Prevention
- Privacy Technologies and Mechanisms
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Secure Electronic Voting
- Security Economics and Metrics
- Security and Privacy in Cloud / Fog Systems
- Security and Privacy of Systems based on Machine Learning and AI
- Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing
- Security and Privacy in the IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems
- Security and Privacy in Location-based Services
- Security and Privacy for Mobile / Smartphone Platforms
- security and Privacy in Social Networks
- Security and Privacy in Wireless and Cellular Communications
- Security, Privacy, and Resilience for Large-Scale, Critical
Infrastructures (e.g., Smart Grid, AirPorts, Ports)
- Security for Emerging Networks (e.g., Home Networks, IoT, Body-Area
Networks, VANETs)
- Software Security
- Systems Security
- Trustworthy Computing
- Usable Security and Privacy
- Web Security
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
Previously unpublished research works of high quality are invited for
review. Submissions are not required to be anonymous.
All submissions must be written in English and uploaded as a single
PDF with 16 pages in length (using 10pt font), and 20 pages at most
including references and appendices. Papers should be intelligible
without appendices as TPC members are not required to read them.
Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of
Proceedings and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on
the authors’ page, for the preparation of their
papers.https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceed…
Authors are obliged to specify the Conflict of Interests at the time
of submission. Guidelines are available on the conference webiste.
Authors may submit up to a maximum of 6 papers for the Winter Cycle.
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with proceedings.
*SUBMISSION PORTAL*
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2026
You can continue updating your submission until the deadline, i.e.,
January 09, 2026.
*PROCEEDINGS*
The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS).
*STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE*
Partial grants are available for student authors. You may get in touch
with the organizers once your paper is accepted.
*BEST PAPER AWARD*
ESORICS 2026 will present a Best Paper Award chosen by the Program
Committee. This award is generously sponsored by Springer.
Contact: esorics2026(a)easychair.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/esorics2026/home
CFP-ESORICS-2026-v1
--
Yours sincerely,
Vishwas Patil.
Senior Scientist, IIT Bombay.
https://sites.google.com/site/ivishwas
<http://sites.google.com/site/ivishwas>
An omission is the most powerful form of lying. ~ George Orwell.
----- End forwarded message -----
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are pleased to announce the 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026 in Tokyo, May 18-21, 2026.
CFP
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The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems
(IEEE NetRobiCS 2026, ex WiSARN)
in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026,
May 18 2026, Tokyo, Japan
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Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025
WEBSITE
https://netrobics2026.nws.cs.unibo.it/
SUBMISSION LINK
https://edas.info/N34642
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly.
In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation.
The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks.
NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks
- Network protocols and communication technologies for robotic systems
- 5G, 6G and satellite enabled robotic systems
- Communications and networking for swarm robotics
- Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication
- Robotic motion control and swarm modeling and management
- Data management and processing in robotic systems
- Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems
- AI-driven communication and computing in robotic systems
- Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic communication
- Path planning, localization and navigation in robotic networks
- Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms for robotic systems
- Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks
- Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks
- Blockchain-enabled robotic systems
- Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks
- Distributed control and management for robotic networks
- Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks
- Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots
- Novel applications of robotic networks
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FEATURES
- Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII
- Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI)
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SUBMISSION RULES
Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: February 2, 2026
Camera Ready: February 16, 2026
Workshop: May 18, 2026
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ORGANIZING COMMITEEE
General Chairs
- Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)
- Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA)
Technical Program Chairs
- Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur, France)
- Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)
Dear all,
The 10th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 14-15
December 2025, at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, co-located with FSTTCS
2025. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/) for details on invited
speakers, registration, etc. The early bird registration for the school has
been extended till December 5th (AoE).
SAT+SMT School 2025 will also host a session for posters and short talks --
a forum for students, faculty and industry practitioners working in the
broad area of SAT/SMT solving to present their research work to the school
attendees. Early-stage ideas are more than welcome. We anticipate it to be
an excellent opportunity to get feedback, and network with peers and
experts in the field.
If you are interested in presenting a poster or giving a short talk, please
submit an entry (just a title and a short abstract) using this Google form
<https://forms.gle/5K7DyDpZtPpMRuM3A>. The submission deadline is December
7th.
Accepted entries will be notified on Dec. 8th. The final selection will be
made by the organizing committee based on the availability of slots and
relevance to the school. If you wish to submit an entry, and your decision
to register for the school depends on its acceptance, please let us know
immediately by writing to Priyanka (pgolia(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) and Madhukar (
madhukar(a)cse.iitd.ac.in).
We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy
to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. Feel free to write
to us at
indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com <mailto:indian.satsmt.school@gmail.com
<indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com>>.
Best regards,
Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay
Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi
Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay
Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles
Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi
Kuldeep S. Meel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aalok Thakkar, Ashoka University
*Apologies for cross-posting*
Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2025 and co-located workshops
FSTTCS 2025 is the 45th conference on Foundations of Software Technology
and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian
Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM
India. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational
aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. Within Track B, there
is a focus on soliciting submissions in the areas of Programming Languages
and Practical Verification, in addition to theoretical results.
FSTTCS 2025 will be held in BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus during
December 17–19, 2025. The conference is being organized as an in-person
event.
We also have several exciting workshops lined up! You can register for the
conference and any subset of the workshops, or just for one or more of the
workshops.
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QUICK LINKS:
Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/
Registration: https://fsttcs.info/registration/
Early registration deadline: 5th December, AoE
Local information: https://guptasid.bitbucket.io/fsttcs2025/
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WORKSHOPS:
10th Indian SAT + SMT School
Dates: December 14 – 15, 2025
http://sat-smt.in/
Workshop on Quantum Algorithms and Cryptography
Dates: December 14 – 15, 2025
https://k-rajendra.github.io/Workshop/QCWorkshop25.html
Verification and Learning for Quantitative Systems
Dates: December 15 – 16, 2025
https://quantformal-2025.vercel.app/
FSTTCS Mentoring Workshop
Date: December 16, 2025
https://aalok-thakkar.github.io/fsttcs-mentoring-workshop-2025.html
Information in Games and Mechanisms
Date: December 16, 2025
https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~igm-25/
RHPL: Research Highlights in Programming Languages
Dates: December 17 – 19, 2025
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/
WAGS: Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis
Dates: December 20, 2025
https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025/home
CSS: Workshop on Compilers-oriented Software Security
Dates: December 20, 2025
https://awpandeyiitr.github.io/Homepage/CSS.html
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the workshop *Recent
Trends in Logic and Game Theory (RTLG 2026
<https://sites.google.com/view/rtlg2026/home?authuser=5>)*, jointly
organised by the *Madras School of Economics (MSE)* and the *Indian
Statistical Institute (ISI) Chennai)*. The workshop aims to bring together
researchers working in logic, game theory, and their applications in order
to facilitate the exchange of ideas and foster interdisciplinary
collaboration.
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*Topics of Interest*
We welcome submissions on any topic related to *logic* and *game theory*,
including but not limited to: logics for games and games for logics, game
semantics, game theory, information theory, combinatorial games, finite
model theory, determinacy axioms, algorithmic game theory, categorical
aspects of games, domain theory
as well as their applications in: artificial intelligence, economics,
social sciences.
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*Important Dates*
(*Anywhere-on-Earth / AoE*)
-
*Submission Deadline:* 31 December 2025
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*Notification of Acceptance:* 20 January 2026
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*Submission Guidelines*
Submissions are invited in the following categories:
*Short Abstracts*
-
*3–5 pages* (including references)
-
May report completed results, work in progress, or recently
published/submitted work
-
Must contain sufficient detail for the Program Committee to assess
relevance and quality
*Extended Abstracts*
-
*Up to 8 pages* (including references)
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Must present *original work* not previously published or submitted
elsewhere
-
Additional material may be included in an optional appendix
All manuscripts must be written in *English* and formatted according
to the LNCS
template.
Submissions should be sent as a PDF to rtlg2025(a)gmail.com, with the
submission category clearly indicated. At least one author of each accepted
submission is expected to attend the workshop and present the work.
A *post-proceedings volume* of accepted extended abstracts will be
published shortly after the workshop. Authors will be invited to submit
revised versions following the event.
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*Registration*
Registration will be *mandatory* for participation. Further details
regarding registration procedures and deadlines will be communicated in due
course.
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For further information or queries, please contact us at rtlg2025(a)gmail.com.
We kindly request you to circulate this announcement among colleagues who
may be interested in participating.
Sincerely,
On behalf of the *RTLG 2026 Organising Committee*
Purbita Jana,
*Assistant Professor and*
*Chair of M.Sc. Data Science Programme,*
*Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.*
https://sites.google.com/view/purbita/home
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FM 2026 Tutorials: Call for Tutorials
https://conf.researchr.org/track/fm-2026/fm-2026-tutorials
*****************************************************************************************
## Overview
FM 2026 is the 27th international symposium on Formal Methods in a series organized by Formal Methods Europe (FME), an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. The FM symposia have been successful in bringing together researchers and industrial users around a program of original papers on research and industrial experience, workshops, tutorials, reports on tools, projects, and ongoing doctoral research.
We are inviting proposals for tutorials to complement the main FM 2026 symposium. The primary goal of these tutorials is to convey ideas with a focus on pedagogy over technical innovation. They offer a valuable platform for participants to discuss technical challenges, exchange research concepts, explore educational strategies, and demonstrate or investigate practical applications. Tutorials should be designed to be broadly accessible and pedagogically oriented, clarifying key concepts, building intuition, and ensuring ease of understanding. They aim to attract new researchers, serve as bridges to practitioners, and disseminate useful ideas widely. These may be driven by fundamental academic interests, or by needs from specific application domains.
We encourage a diversity of topics relating to different ways of developing and using formal methods as well as all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including complex applications. Although tutorials focused on tools are a traditional choice, tutorials covering techniques are also welcome. Authors interested in proposing different types of tutorials are encouraged to contact the chairs for guidance. Overall, we welcome a broad range of tutorial topics, as long as they are relevant to the interests of the formal methods community. Moreover, we also invite topics at the intersection of machine learning and formal methods due to the growing interest in AI and machine learning-based software development.
Accepted tutorial papers will be published in the conference proceeding volume. Authors of these papers will be allocated a presentation slot during the tutorial sessions prior to the main conference. When submitting tutorial papers, authors should indicate their preferred presentation length, which can be either half a day or a full day.
##Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: February 02, 2026 (AoE)
- Acceptance Notification: February 28, 2026
- Camera-ready versions: March 13, 2026
More information can be found on the website of FM 2026: https://conf.researchr.org/track/fm-2026/fm-2026-tutorials
## Submission Instructions
Submission should be done through the FM 2026 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2026
As in previous years, the proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Tutorial papers can be at most 25 pages in LNCS format (including references and appendices). There is no minimum length; the tutorial should be as long as necessary to be effective, but should avoid filler. Tools should include links and descriptions of how to run them. The paper must provide clear references to the original technical content and they are welcome to include an appendix for better details.
Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website (more details: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…).
## Tutorials Co-Chairs
- Kazuhiro Ogata, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Neeraj Kumar Singh, INPT-ENSEEIHT/IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
We are pleased to announce the 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026 in Tokyo, May 18-21, 2026.
Call For Papers
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The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems
(IEEE NetRobiCS 2026, ex WiSARN)
in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026,
May 18 2026, Tokyo, Japan
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Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025
WEBSITE
https://netrobics2026.nws.cs.unibo.it/
SUBMISSION LINK
https://edas.info/N34642
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly.
In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation.
The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks.
NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks
- Network protocols and communication technologies for robotic systems
- 5G, 6G and satellite enabled robotic systems
- Communications and networking for swarm robotics
- Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication
- Robotic motion control and swarm modeling and management
- Data management and processing in robotic systems
- Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems
- AI-driven communication and computing in robotic systems
- Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic communication
- Path planning, localization and navigation in robotic networks
- Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms for robotic systems
- Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks
- Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks
- Blockchain-enabled robotic systems
- Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks
- Distributed control and management for robotic networks
- Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks
- Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots
- Novel applications of robotic networks
--------------
FEATURES
- Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII
- Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI)
--------------
SUBMISSION RULES
Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: February 2, 2026
Camera Ready: February 16, 2026
Workshop: May 18, 2026
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ORGANIZING COMMITEEE
General Chairs
- Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)
- Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA)
Technical Program Chairs
- Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur, France)
- Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)
Dear all,
The 10th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 14-15
December 2025, at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, co-located with FSTTCS
2025. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/) for details on invited
speakers, registration, etc. The early bird registration for the school
closes on November 30th.
SAT+SMT School 2025 will also host a session for posters and short talks --
a forum for students, faculty and industry practitioners working in the
broad area of SAT/SMT solving to present their research work to the school
attendees. Early-stage ideas are more than welcome. We anticipate it to be
an excellent opportunity to get feedback, and network with peers and
experts in the field.
If you are interested in presenting a poster or giving a short talk, please
submit an entry (just a title and a short abstract) using this Google form
<https://forms.gle/5K7DyDpZtPpMRuM3A>. The submission deadline is Nov.
29th.
Accepted entries will be notified by Dec. 2nd. The final selection will be
made by the organizing committee based on the availability of slots and
relevance to the school. In case you have submitted an entry already, and
your decision to register for the school depends on its acceptance, please
let us know immediately by writing to Priyanka (pgolia(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) and
Madhukar (madhukar(a)cse.iitd.ac.in).
We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy
to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. Feel free to write
to us at
indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com <mailto:indian.satsmt.school@gmail.com
<indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com>>.
Best regards,
Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay
Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi
Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay
Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles
Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi
Kuldeep S. Meel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aalok Thakkar, Ashoka University
[Apologies for multiple postings]
Dear Colleagues,
Please see below the final call for submissions for Workshop on Automata
and Games for Synthesis, and note that the submission deadline is extended
to *1st December AOE.* Please distribute the call, consider submitting and
encourage your fellow researchers and students to submit their best work of
the year!
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Call for Participations
Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis
<https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025/home>
Goa, India
December 20th, 2025
Co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical
Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2025 <https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/>
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Submission of contributed talks at: https://forms.gle/baHEbDRh5eJbfgbA8
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Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025
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About the workshop
===================
The second iteration of the *Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis*
is an on-site event happening on December 20, 2025, in Goa, India. It is
co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer
Science (FSTTCS) 2025, the premier international computer science
conference in India, and held annually in December since 1981. Automated
synthesis of systems from specifications has been a longstanding goal of
computer science. The workshop focuses on various aspects by which automata
and game solving are used to tackle problems motivated by synthesis.
The workshop will feature three invited speakers and some sessions with
short presentations. For the short presentations, *students, postdocs, and
early-career researchers* are encouraged to talk about their research in 10–15
minute sessions (exact length will depend on the number of contributions).
For submission, we solicit a title and an abstract for the talk (please
find the Google Form link below).
The workshop does not have proceedings; therefore previously published
talks or ongoing work are both encouraged to be presented. Topics for
presentation at the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
Automata Theory
Reactive Synthesis
Games on Finite and Infinite Graphs
Computational aspects of Game Theory
Concurrency and Distributed computation
Formal Languages
Games and Automata for Verification
Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems
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Important dates and information
============================
Submission Deadline
: *December 1, 2025 (AoE)*
Notification
Final Notification
: Sent on a rolling basis, let us know if you need it before the early-bird
registration deadline of FSTTCS ends (on *November 30th AOE*).
: December 3rd, 2025
Workshop
: December 20, 2025
Submission of contributed talks at: https://forms.gle/baHEbDRh5eJbfgbA8
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Invited speakers
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Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University)
B. Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute)
Aditya Prakash (LIS, Aix-Marseille Université)
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Organisers
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Sougata Bose
Suman Sadhukhan
K.S. Thejaswini
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Program
=============
The detailed program will be available here
<https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025/schedule> closer to the
workshop.
For any queries, contact the organisers: sougata.bose(a)umons.ac.be,
suman.sadhukhan00(a)gmail.com, thejaswini.k.s(a)ista.ac.at
Best regards,
Suman Sadhukhan
Thanks Deepak.
Kind Regards
KC Sivaramakrishnan
On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 at 21:01, Deepak D'Souza <deepakd(a)iisc.ac.in> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification KC. And thanks for a great talk.
>
> Kudos to you and Sheera and the rest of the team for seeing thru a very
> challenging and impactful piece of work.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Deepak
>
> Sent from Android device
>
> On 18 Nov 2025 20:32, KC Sivaramakrishnan <kcsrk(a)cse.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
> External Email
>
>
>
> Thanks for coming to my talk today. Apologies for going over.
>
> Reg one of the questions in the talk about graph isomorphism, Sheera tells
> me that `successors` returns a sequence (functional list) of successors in
> the order in which they appear in the object. So `successors g_init x ==
> successors g_sweep x` ensures that pointers are not reordered in an object
> between the initial and the final heaps.
>
> Kind Regards
> KC
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM VSS IARCS <vss.iarcs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by
> KC
> > Sivaramakrishnan, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and
> > Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the
> > Chief Technology Officer of Tarides. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday,
> > November 18, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar
> > <
> >
> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjNrcmQ1c2…
> > >
> > ).
> >
> > The details of the talk can be found on our webpage (
> > https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/), and also appended to the body of this
> > email.
> >
> > The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association
> > for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online
> > talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming
> > Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of
> this
> > talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to
> > interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for
> > researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and
> > for younger researchers to start working in these areas.
> >
> > All are welcome to join.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series
> >
> > =============================================================
> >
> > Title: A Mechanically Verified Garbage Collector for OCaml
> >
> > Meeting Link:
> >
> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
> > (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
> >
> > Abstract:
> > OCaml is a garbage-collected (GC) language, where unused memory is
> > automatically and reliably freed. OCaml's GC is known for its high
> > throughput and low latency, making it suitable for both batch jobs and
> > interactive systems. OCaml GC is non-trivial and written in C, and is a
> > part of the trusted computing base of OCaml programs. Bugs in the GC have
> > the potential to violate the type safety of OCaml programs. In this
> talk, I
> > will describe our work in developing a correct, proof-oriented GC for
> OCaml
> > from scratch, capable of being swapped into the existing OCaml runtime
> > system. Our GC is simple — a stop-the-world mark-and-sweep collector —
> but
> > is capable of running non-trivial OCaml programs. The GC is developed in
> F*
> > and its low-level subset Low*, which is compiled to memory-safe C. I will
> > also describe the extension of our collector to enable generational and
> > incremental collection.
> >
> > This work was published in the Journal of Automated Reasoning (link
> > <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10817-025-09721-0>).
> >
> > Bio: KC Sivaramakrishnan is an Assistant Professor in the Computer
> Science
> > and Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and
> > the Chief Technology Officer of Tarides. He led the development of
> > Multicore OCaml, a concurrent and parallel extension of the OCaml
> > programming language. His research interest lies in building robust,
> secure
> > and scalable systems using programming language technology.
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