[Caml-list] Coq Tutorial at POPL 2008: Using Proof Assistants for Programming Language Research
Stephanie Weirich
Tutorial Announcement and Call for Participation
Using Proof Assistants for Programming Language Research
Or:
How to Write Your Next POPL Paper in Coq
San Francisco, CA, 8 Jan 2008
Co-located with POPL 2008
Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN
http://plclub.org/popl08-tutorial/
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The University of Pennsylvania PLClub invites you to participate in a
tutorial on using the Coq proof assistant to formalize programming
language
metatheory.
This tutorial will be tailored to people who are familiar with syntactic
proofs of programming language metatheory (type soundness, etc.), but
have
never used a proof assistant. At the end of the day, participants
will have
a reading knowledge of Coq and a running start on using Coq in their own
work.
This tutorial will be hands-on, with breaks for exercises;
participants are
strongly encouraged to bring a laptop running Coq 8.1 (or a later
release)
and either Proof General or CoqIDE.
Tutorial topics
- Defining language semantics in Coq
- Abstract syntax
- Inductively-defined relations
- Derivations
- Proving simple results
- Fundamental tactics
- Automation
- Forward and backward reasoning
- Scaling up to POPLmark
- Semantic functions and conversion
- Sets and environments
- Representing binding
- Locally nameless representation
- Freshness through cofinite quantification
- Syntactic type soundness
Registration will be through the POPL 2008 registration site:
http://www.regmaster.com/conf/popl2008.html
The tutorial is organized and presented by members of the University of
Pennsylvania PLClub: Brian Aydemir, Aaron Bohannon, Benjamin Pierce,
Jeffrey
Vaughan, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Stephanie Weirich, and Steve Zdancewic.
Questions can be sent to Stephanie Weirich (swei...@cis.upenn.edu).
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