Student Travel Support for Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) Winter School 2020

这笔旅行补助金为15名美国学生提供支持，参加将于2020年1月在新奥尔良举行的第32届冬季验证，模型检查和抽象解释学校（VMCAI）。VMCAI是形式验证领域最重要的会议之一，为来自验证、模型检查和抽象解释社区的研究人员提供了一个论坛，促进了交互、交叉和混合方法的发展，这些方法结合了联合收割机和相关领域。VMCAI冬季学校将为学生提供进入该领域所需的知识，并向他们介绍该领域的一些新研究方向。参加冬季学校的学生可以学习最先进的方法，接触新的研究问题，并与他们所选择的专业领域的高级研究人员进行互动。这项旅行补助金将为美国和/或美国公民研究生提供职业发展和学习机会。参加像VMCAI冬季学校这样的会议是我们社会未来计算机科学研究人员研究生院教育的重要组成部分。学生有机会与世界一流的研究人员以正式的方法讨论前沿研究，并建立网络，联系和指导关系，这将在他们的研究生涯中为他们提供良好的服务。该项目旨在增加代表性不足群体和小型教育机构学生的参与，为他们提供平等机会，而不是将他们抛在后面，该奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This travel grant provides support for 15 US-based students to attend the 32nd Winter School on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) to be held in New Orleans, January 2020. VMCAI, one of the premier conference in formal verification, provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods that combine these and related areas. The VMCAI winter school will give students the knowledge required to enter the field and present them with some of the newer research directions in the field. Students have much to gain from attending winter school's learning state-of-the-art methodologies, being exposed to new research questions, and interacting with senior researchers in their chosen area of expertise.This travel grant will enable career development and learning opportunities for US-based and/or US citizen graduate students. Attending conferences like the VMCAI winter school is an important component of graduate school education for our society's future computer science researchers. Students have the opportunity to discuss leading edge research with world-class researchers in formal methods, and establish networks, connections, and mentoring relationships that will serve them well during their research careers. This project aims at increasing the participation of students from underrepresented groups and those from smaller institutions of education, to provide them with equal opportunities, rather than leave them behind.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.