20 ANNIVERSARY 20 TH 08 CAV20th International Conference on Computer Aided Verifi cation PRINCETON July 7–14UNIVERSITY P r i n c e t o n . N e w J e r s e y . U S A www.princeton.edu/cav2008

South facade of Nassau Hall (1756), Princeton University; photo by Denise Applewhite

INVITED SPEAKERS INVITED TUTORIALS AFFILIATED EVENTS WORKSHOPS July 7, 8, and 14 Edward Felten Princeton University Harry Foster Mentor Graphics CAV Award AFM: Automated Formal Methods James Larus Microsoft Research John Harrison Intel HW-MC-Comp BPR: Bit Precise Reasoning Peter O’Hearn University of London SMT-Comp (EC)^2: Exploiting Concurrency Effi ciently and Correctly Reinhard Wilhelm Saarland University FAC: Formal verifi cation of Analog Circuits HAV: Heap Analysis and Verifi cation NSV: Numerical abstractions for Software Verifi cation SMT: Satisfi ability Modulo Theories CONFERENCE CHAIRS PROGRAM COMMITTEE Aarti Gupta NEC Labs America Rajeev Alur University of Pennsylvania Aarti Gupta NEC Labs America Sharad Malik Princeton University Sharad Malik Princeton University Nina Amla Cadence David Harel Weizmann Institute Ken McMillan Cadence WORKSHOPS CHAIR Clark Barrett New York University John Harrison Intel Kedar Namjoshi Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Byron Cook Microsoft Research Armin Biere Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Thomas A. Henzinger EPFL Corina Pasareanu NASA TUTORIALS CHAIR Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology Holger Hermanns Saarland University Amir Pnueli New York University Ahmed Bouajjani University Paris 7 Pei-Hsin Ho Synopsys Andreas Podelski University of Freiburg Alan Hu University of British Columbia Alessandro Cimatti IRST Trento Robert Jones Intel Shaz Qadeer Microsoft Research STEERING COMMITTEE Werner Damm Oldenburg University Daniel Kroening Oxford University Koushik Sen University of California–Berkeley Edmund M. Clarke Carnegie Mellon University Steven German IBM Orna Kupferman Hebrew University Fabio Somenzi University of Colorado Mike Gordon University of Cambridge Ganesh Gopalakrishnan University of Utah Shuvendu Lahiri Microsoft Research Ofer Strichman Technion Robert P. Kurshan Cadence Mike Gordon University of Cambridge Rupak Majumdar University of California–Los Angeles Karen Yorav IBM Haifa Amir Pnueli New York University Orna Grumberg Technion Oded Maler Verimag Lenore Zuck University of Illinois CONFIRMED SPONSORS P r i n c e t o n U n i v e r s i t y , C a d e n c e , I B M , I n t e l , J a s p e r , M e n t o r G r a p h i c s , M i c r o s o f t R e s e a r c h , N E C , a n d S y n o p s y s printed on recycled paper