PAG Group Meeting Schedule


For fall 2008, meetings are usually Tuesdays from 10:00am to 11:00am in 32-262 (the video conference room).

Please see the description of group meetings at the PAG logistics webpage.

You may also wish to see Michael Ernst's advice on giving a talk.

Schedule: into
Date Speaker Subject
Nov 11 David Harvison Analysis of Different Caching Methods for jFuzz
Nov 25 Mahmood Type Inference for IGJ
THU @ 2:00 PM Dec 4 Robert Rudd Comparing Static and Dynamic Analyses of Points-to sets

Potential future meeting topics:


Past meetings

Date Speaker Subject
Sep 20 04 Galen Improving Program Steering Performance via Probabilistic Inference
Oct 04 04 Amy Static Dealock Detection for Java Libraries
Oct 13 04 Stephen Software Upgrades (Practice Talk SAVCBS)
Oct 18 04 Jeff Daikon Optimizations (Practice Talk FSE)
Nov 08 04 Sandra Alias Analysis
Nov 22 04 Matthew Javari (reference immutability) design
Dec 06 04 Stephen Binary Sandboxing (SFI)
Jan 10 05 Carlos Generating and selecting tests
Tue Jan 18 05 Adam Instantiating generic libraries
Jan 24 05 Matthew Javari (reference immutability) design
Jan 31 05 Mike B. Continuous Testing Performance Enhancements
Feb 14 05 Adam Migrating Java applications to generic libraries
Feb 28 05 Shay Using predicate fields in a highly flexible industrial control system
Mar 07 05 Eric From Trace to Chicory
Mar 28 05 Stephen ACL2 proof of binary sandboxing safety
Apr 11 05 Philip Dynamic Comparability Analysis for C
Tue Apr 19 05   Brainstorming about testing
Tue Apr 25 05   Brainstorming coding problems
Tue May 02 05   Brainstorming solutions
May 23 05 Vineet Demo of "Relo" code understanding tool
Sep 27 05 Carlos Online Creation of Object States for Testing
Oct 04 05 David Development in the real world
Oct 11 05 Shay Using predicate fields in a highly flexible industrial control system
Dec 06 05 Patrick Lam Practice job talk
Feb 14 06 Carlos CRS meeting: Feedback-directed Random Test Generation
Feb 28 06 Viktor CRS meeting: Modular Static Analysis with Sets and Relations
Mar 7 06 Stephen Improving Model Checking with Dynamic Points-to Sets
Mar 21 06 Felix CRS meeting: A Case Study in Modular Verification
Apr 4 06   Tool and sysadmin tips and tricks
Apr 11 06 Stephen PAG/PDOS: Quantitative Information-Flow Tracking for Real Systems
Thu Apr 20 06 Jeff Project management; in room 32-G631
May 2 06 Greg Little CRS meeting
May 9 06 Matt Papi Custom type qualifiers through improved Java annotations
May 16 06 Derek & Rob CRS meeting (ICSE practice talk)
Oct 17 06 Adam Palulu: Generating legal test inputs for object-oriented programs
Nov 07 06 Adam Parameterizing Java Classes
Nov 14 06 Jaime Analyzing Reference Immutability in Practice
Nov 21 06 Shay Combined Static and Dynamic Purity Analysis
Dec 12 06 Chen Performance Enhancements for a Dynamic Invariant Detector
Dec 19 06 Jeff TBD
Feb 6 07 Jeremy Nimmer Software testing at Vanu, Inc.
Feb 16 07 Sung Prioritizing Warnings by Analyzing Software History
Feb 23 07 Matt Type qualifiers framework; NonNull and Interned checkers
Mar 6 07 4pm Jeff Y. Optimizing invariant detection for constants and enums
Mar 9 07 Yoav Object and reference immutability using Java generics
Mar 23 07 Dave Test factoring to create readable tests
Mar 30 07   (during spring break)
Apr 6 07 Sung & Yoav Application Communities work
Apr 13 07 Adam Optimizing model checking via type inference
Apr 20 07 Jaime Type inference for Javari, and Javari case studies
Apr 27 07    
May 4 07 David Saff Intelligent developer communication with intelligent testing tools
May 11 07 Sung Predicting Faults from Cached History
May 18 07 Carlos Feedback-directed Random Test Generation
Tue Jun 05 07 Stephen Information-flow proof technique (PLAS practice) in room 32-G631
Jun 18 07 All Brainstorming: Come with ideas about problems (or solutions)
Wed Jun 27 07 Sung Bugzilla data project
Fri Jul 06 07 Mahmood IGJ case studies
Jul 09 07 Jeff P. Application Communities demo
Jul 16 07 Dave G. Amock
Jul 23 07 Matt P. Non-null case study
Tue Jul 31 07 Jason Juang Abstract type inference improvements
Wed Aug 15 07 Stephen Information flow annotation inference in room 32-825
Aug 27 07 Sung Which Warnings Should I Fix First?
Sep 28 07 Michael Ernst Pluggable type-checking for custom type qualifiers
Oct 05 07 Danny Dig 1pm Automated upgrading of component-based applications
Oct 12 07 David Saff Theory-infected (OOPSLA demo practice)
Oct 19 07 Matt Papi Compile-time type-checking for custom type qualifiers in Java (OOPSLA demo practice)
Oct 26 07 Sung Kim ReCrash: Making Java failures reproducible
Nov 02 07 Shay Artzi Combined static and dynamic mutability analysis (ASE practice talk)
Nov 5 2007 12:00pm Adam Kiezun Grammar-based whitebox fuzzing
Nov 7 07 1pm (G825) Jaime Quinonez Javari type inference
Nov 30 07 Stephen McCamant Using Valgrind/VEX to implement a dynamic analysis
Dec 07 07 Jeff Perkins Application Communities demo & status report
Dec 14 07 Shay Artzi Bug detection and localization in scripting languages
Feb 12 08 Danny Dig Java concurrency and refactorings discussion
Feb 19 08 Stephen McCamant Practice for academic job talk
Feb 26 08 Jaime Quinonez Heuristics for inferring assignable keywords in Javari
March 12 08, Wed Danny Dig Java concurrency and refactoring discussion (cont)
March 18 08, Tue Michael Ernst Self-defending software: Collaborative learning for security
April 29 08, Tue Mahmood Ali The Design of the Checkers Framework
May 6 08, Tue Danny Dig ICSE'08 Practice Talk (room G725)
May 27 08, Tue Adam Kiezun PLDI'08 Practice Talk
Jun 03 08, Tue Stephen McCamant PLDI'08 Practice Talk
Jun 10 08, Tue Peter Weissgerber Identifying Refactorings In Software Repositories
Thu Jun 26 at 9:30 Mike ReCrash: Making software failures reproducible by preserving object states (ECOOP practice)
Jul 1 Mike Inference of reference immutability (ECOOP practice)
Jul 8 Shay Finding bugs in dynamic web applications (ISSTA practice)
Jul 15 Mike Practical pluggable types for Java (ISSTA practice)
Jul 29 2PM in G-975 Danny / John Extracting parallel tasks from sequential Java code / Converting code to use AtomicInteger and ConcurrentHashMap
Thu Aug 07 at 2:00 in G825 Jeff Perkins Improving random testing with dynamic dataflow analysis
Thu Aug 14 Robert Combining Static+Dynamic analyses for points-to sets
Aug 19 David Whitebox Fuzz Testing for Java
Sep 30 Adam Automatic Creation of SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting Attacks
Oct 7 Mahmood Practice talks for OOPSLA

Last updated: November 1, 2008