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SUMMARY:Specialist Meeting on AI Technologies for Code Vulnerability Detection
DESCRIPTION:As part of an NCSC-backed research initiative\, Surevine and VeTSS are seeking diverse expertise from academia\, startups and industry to discuss evaluation frameworks\, self-hostable architectures\, data sovereignty\, and emerging techniques/products in this field. \nWe invite leading experts to contribute to a workshop exploring AI/LLM applications across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for improving security and identifying security vulnerabilities. \nPrimary Focus  \nStatic Analysis and Testing: Applying LLMs for vulnerability detection and mitigation suggestions (e.g.\, during SAST) \nSecondary Areas \n\nDynamic Testing (DAST) – ML/LLM support for runtime vulnerability detection\nCode Creation – Security-aware IDE plugins preventing common pitfalls\nCode Reviews – LLM assistance for independent code review processes\nTesting – Automated generation of security-focused unit/integration tests\nProduction Monitoring – Vulnerability detection in live systems\nImpact Metrics – Measuring AI-enabled detection effectiveness vs. conventional methods\n\n Date: 27 October 2025 \nVenue: TechUK\, London (10 St Bride Street\, EC4A 4AD)
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/specialist-meeting-on-ai-technologies-for-code-vulnerability-detection/
LOCATION:TechUK\, 10 St Bride Street\, London\, EC4A 4AD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250811T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250814T140000
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SUMMARY:VeTSS Summer School 2025
DESCRIPTION:VeTSS Summer School 2025 is a graduate school focused on program analysis\, testing and verification. This year’s school will take place at the Advanced Research Centre\, University of Glasgow\, 11-14 August 2025. \nThe school is open to PhD students and early career researchers working on program analysis\, testing and verification. but participation is by invitation only. Registration is now open. Women and anyone currently underrepresented in the field of Computer Science are especially welcome to apply. \nFor information about the talks\, please see the programme page. The detailed schedule will be updated periodically.
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/vetss-summer-school-2025/
LOCATION:ARC\, University of Glasgow\, The Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre\, 11 Chapel Lane\, University of Glasgow\, Glasgow\, G11 6EW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Summer School
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250606T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250606T170000
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SUMMARY:VeTSS Annual Conference 2025
DESCRIPTION:This year’s event will be held at the Royal Academy of Engineering\, Prince Philip House\, London on Friday\, 6th of June. You can find the address and full directions to the venue on this link. \nRegistration to the event is now open.
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/vetss-annual-meeting-2025/
LOCATION:RAE Prince Phiilip House\, 3 Carlton House Terrace\, London\, SW1Y 5DG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Annual Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250327T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250327T150000
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SUMMARY:The Value of Feminism in the Theory and Practice of Computer Science and Cyber Security
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday 27th of March 2025 for a one-day event dedicated to discussing the value of feminism in the theory and practice of Computer Science and Cyber Security. This interactive workshop will be held at the Bristol Watershed (1 Canon’s Rd\, Bristol BS1 5TX) and will include a keynote from Felienne Hermans discussing her recent paper: ‘A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design’ (2024). \nThis event is a collaboration between The Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS) and The Research Institute on Verified Trustworthy Software Systems (VeTSS)\, both funded by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). \nThe aim of the event is to discuss the challenges affecting diversity in the theory and practice of Computer Science and Cyber Security\, why change is desirable\, and to initiate discussion about how the theoretical computer science and cyber security communities might address these challenges. \nRegistration for this event is now open. \nRISCS/VeTSS Workshop Programme \n·       10.00-10.30: Arrivals\, Registration & Coffee \n·       10.30-10.35: Welcome and Introductions – Brijesh Dongol (VeTSS Director) and Genevieve Liveley (RISCS Director) \n·       10.35-11.30: Keynote – ‘A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design’ (Felienne Hermanns) (40 min paper + 15 min Q&A) \n·       11.30-12.00: Break \n·       12.00-1.00: Panel Discussion – Rebecca Jones\, Sam Lindley\, Wrenna Robson\, Francois Dupressoir\, Samantha Frohlich \n·       1.00-2.00: Lunch and Networking \n·       2.00-2.55: Roundtable Discussion – all \n·       2.55-3.00: Closing Remarks – Samantha Frohlich (Bristol) \n·       3.00: Close \nYou are welcome to stay on at the Watershed and continue the conversation
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/the-value-of-feminism-in-the-theory-and-practice-of-computer-science-and-cyber-security/
LOCATION:Bristol Watershed\, 1 Canon's Rd\, Bristol\, BS1 5TX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250117
DTSTAMP:20260416T173134
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SUMMARY:TFP (and TFPiE) 2025
DESCRIPTION:26th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming\n13th to 16th January 2025\, Oxford\, UK \nThe symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming\, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results\, and other contributions.
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/tfp-and-tfpie-2025/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241021T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T173134
CREATED:20240927T121032Z
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SUMMARY:Formal Specification and Validation at Scale
DESCRIPTION:This Open for Business event is part of an INI programme on Big Specification. It aims to provide a meeting ground to facilitate interactions and exchanges between representatives of academia\, research and industry\, relevant to the theme\, with the objective of identifying points of mutual interest and possible co-activity.\n\n\n\n\n\nAims & Objectives \nThe aim of this Open for Business event is to evaluate the role of formal methods in industrial design\, review the current and potential future capabilities of our tools and techniques\, and discuss strategies for advancing their standardisation. The objective is to identify ways to progressively integrate formal methods into industrial processes and to outline possible next steps\, including how government support can facilitate this progression. \nThe planned activities for the event include: \n\nTalks by experts from academia\, industry and government.\nAn afternoon session on “Formal Methods for Secure and Measurable Software Systems”\, supported by the Office of the White House.\nAn afternoon session on “Formal Methods in Cyber Security”\, supported by the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC).\n\nThis hybrid meeting will bring together an audience of invited experts and policymakers from across academia\, industry\, and government\, all driven by a common goal to advance formal methods and strengthen cybersecurity. The event will be recorded\, with an edited version made available on YouTube. \nRegistration and Venue \nThis is an invitation-only event. Registration for this event is open. \nThe workshop will take place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge\, United Kingdom. Please visit the Isaac Newton Institute website for further information about the venue. \nTo maximise networking opportunities and interaction with speakers and other participants\, we strongly encourage in-person attendance to this workshop. However\, this event is also hosted as hybrid via Zoom.
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/formal-specification-and-validation-at-scale/
LOCATION:Isaac Newton Institute\, 20 Clarkson Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 0EH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240718T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240719T170000
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SUMMARY:Kent Concurrency Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are very happy to be on of the sponsors of this year’s Kent Concurrency Workshop and S-REPLS 15\, taking place at the University of Kent\, Canterbury\, on 18‐19 July\, 2024. \nThe South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) is a regular and informal meeting open to everyone with a professional interest — whether it be academic or commercial — in the semantics and implementation of programming languages. This year it will be jointly held with the Concurrency Workshop which aims to bring together researchers who are working on the theory of concurrency and related areas. Registration  for the event is free. \nImportant dates:\nSubmission deadline: 18th June.\nRegistration deadline: 5th July.
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/kent-concurrency-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Kent\, Giles Ln\, Canterbury\, CT2 7NZ
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240604T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240604T170000
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Formal Methods and Tools for Security (FMATS)
DESCRIPTION:The Workshop on Formal Methods and Tools for Security (FMATS)\, inspired by the grand challenge of software verification\, was established in 2011 by Professor Mike Gordon of the University of Cambridge\, with the aim of bringing together academia\, industry and government employees interested in an effort to properly understand and address the challenges in applying formal methods to security. Since then\, several FMATS workshops have been held\, supported by VeTSS\, Microsoft Research Cambridge and the Royal Society. Please follow the links below for the previous editions of FMATS. \nFMATS7 (2019) (replaced by the `Verified Software’ workshop) \nFMATS6 (2018) \nFMATS5 (2017) \nFMATS4 (2015) \nFMATS3 (2014) \nFMATS2 (2013) \nFMATS1 (2011)
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/workshop-on-formal-methods-and-tools-for-security-fmats/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240521T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240521T170000
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2024
DESCRIPTION:This year’s event will be held at the Royal Academy of Engineering\, London on Tuesday\, 21st of May. You can find the address and full directions to the venue on this link. \nRegistration to the event is now closed as the meeting is at capacity. \nThe meeting with start at 9:00. Registration\, with tea and coffee\, is from 8:30. On arrival\, please make your way up to the ERA Foundation room on the first floor. You will be able to collect  your badge there. \nWe want to make every VeTSS event a respectful and friendly environment for all\, and we ask that everyone attending the Annual meeting adheres to the VeTSS code of conduct. \nProgram\n\n\n\n8:30 – 9:00\nRegistration\, with Tea and Coffee\n\n\nSession 1: Keynote Talk\n\n\n9:00 – 9:15\nWelcome\n\n\n9:15 – 10:15\nKeynote: Holistic security from code to cloud\, Peter O’Hearn (Lacework and UCL)\n\n\n10:15 – 10:45\nMorning break\n\n\nSession 2 \n\n\n10:45 – 11:15\nTalk: Bit-Precise Neural Network Verification\, Edoardo Manino (University of Manchester)\n\n\n11:15 – 11:45\nTalk: Object Capabilities as Guards – Specification\, Verification\, and open calls\, Sophia Drossopolou (Imperial College London)\n\n\n11:45 – 12:15\nTalk: Contactless Payments made Private via Bisimilarity\, Ross Horne (University of Strathclyde\, Glasgow\, Scotland)\n\n\n12:15 – 13:45\nLunch\n\n\nSession 3: Industry Perspectives\n\n\n13:45 – 14:15\nTalk: Writing formal specifications at ARM\, Jade Alglave (Arm)\n\n\n14:15 – 14:35\nTalk: RISC-V Processor Verification: Challenges And Opportunities For Formal\, Ashish Darbari (Axiomise)\n\n\n14:35 – 14:55\nTalk: Verification and Legal Consequences\, Peter Davies (Thales)\n\n\n15:00 – 15:30\nAfternoon break\n\n\nSession 4\n\n\n\n15:30 – 16:30 \nProject talks \n\n\n\n\n\nSACRED-MA: Safe And seCure REmote Direct Memory Access\, Guillaume Ambal\, (Imperial College London) and Gregory Chockler\, (University of Surrey)\n\n\nTRUSTED: SecuriTy SummaRies for SecUre SofTwarE Development\,  Narges Khakpour (Newcastle University)\n\n\nM4Secure: Faster and Secure Memory Management\,  Zheng Wang (University of Leeds)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16:30 – 16:50\nTalk: Using program synthesis to make your code run faster\, Elizabeth Polgreen (University of Edinburgh)\n\n\n16:50 – 17:10\nTalk: Secure Smart Contracts with Isabelle/Solidity\, Diego Marmsoler\, (University of Exeter)\n\n\n17:10 – 17:15\nMeeting ends
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/annual-meeting-2024/
CATEGORIES:Annual Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231101T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231101T190000
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SUMMARY:Fun in the REPL
DESCRIPTION:S-REPLS is a regular meeting\, based in the south of England\, for anyone with an interest in the semantics and implementation of programming languages. Fun in the Afternoon is a seminar on functional programming and related topics. This site describes the arrangements for a joint meeting of these two communities at Bristol Engine Shed in November 2023.
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/fun-in-the-repl/
LOCATION:Bristol Engine Shed\, Station Approach\, Redcliffe\, Bristol\, BS1 6QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230401
DTSTAMP:20260416T173134
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SUMMARY:Annual meeting 2023
DESCRIPTION:This was the first event on the VeTSS Seminar Series\, one-day meetings with talks and panel discussions. The aim  is to connect with VeTSS adjacent research\, such as AI\, Quantum Computing\, Security and Machine learning\, discuss state-of-the-art research and its open challenges and seek cross-pollination opportunities with VeTSS themes. \nTALKS (recording and abstracts)\n‘VeTSS: From Old to New’\,  Philippa Gardner\, Imperial College London \n‘On Operational Cyber Resilience’  Kerstin Eder\, University of Bristol \n‘Automatic verification of transparency protocols’\, Mark Ryan\, University of Birmingham with Vincent Cheval and José Moreira. ABSTRACT \n‘Security and Legacy at Microsoft’ Matthew Parkinson\, Microsoft Research. ABSTRACT \n‘Benchmarking and verifying quantum computers’\, Petros Wallden\, The University of Edinburgh. ABSTRACT \n‘Formal Verification and Bug Finding at Meta’\, Jules Villard\, Meta. ABSTRACT \n‘The Research Institute for Trustworthy Interconnected Cyber-physical Systems’\, Chris Hankin\, Imperial College London. ABSTRACT   \n‘Design and Verification of Time-Critical Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems’\, Vincent Rahli\, University of Birmingham. ABSTRACT \n‘CsmithEdge: More Effective Compiler Testing by Handling Undefined Behaviour Less Conservatively’\, Karine Even-Mendoza\, King’s College London. ABSTRACT \n‘Rust on Morello’\, Simon Cooksey\, University of Kent. ABSTRACT
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/annual-meeting-2023/
CATEGORIES:Annual Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190723T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190724T173000
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SUMMARY:Surrey Concurrency Workshop and S-REPLS 12
DESCRIPTION:This two-day workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers\, from the UK and elsewhere\, who are working on the theory of concurrency and the semantics and implementation of programming languages. \nThe workshop will be held in Lecture Theatre L of the LT building (see Campus Map). Directions to the Stag Hill Campus are available here. \nRegistration for the event is free. Lunch and tea/coffee will be provided thanks to funding from VeTSS and the University of Surrey ACE.
URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/surrey-concurrency-workshop-and-s-repls-12/
LOCATION:University Of Surrey\, Stag Hill\, University Campus\, Guildford\, GU2 7XH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180706T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180724T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T173134
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SUMMARY:Federated Logic Conference\, 2018
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URL:https://vetss.org.uk/event/federated-logic-conference-2018/
LOCATION:St Anne’s College\, 56 Woodstock Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6HS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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