Tom Ball @ Sixty
Tue 16 Jun 2026
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Mon 15 Jun
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09:00 - 10:10
Keynote
PAgE
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Meadows B
Chair(s):
Shraddha Barke
Microsoft Research, Redmond
09:00
10m
Day closing
Opening remarks
PAgE
Shraddha Barke
Microsoft Research, Redmond
09:10
60m
Keynote
Formal Methods for Frontier AI Systems
PAgE
Gagandeep Singh
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:40 - 12:20
PAgE Session 1
PAgE
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Meadows B
Chair(s):
Shraddha Barke
Microsoft Research, Redmond
10:40
20m
Talk
Agentic Code Reasoning
PAgE
Shubham Ugare
Meta
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Satish Chandra
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Pre-print
11:00
20m
Talk
Towards Verified Code Reasoning by LLMs
PAgE
Meghana Aparna Sistla
Google DeepMind
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Gogul Balakrishnan
Google
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Patrick Rondon
Google
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José Pablo Cambronero
Google, USA
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Michele Tufano
Google
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Satish Chandra
Meta Platforms, Inc.
11:20
20m
Talk
Testing, Credible Compilation, and Verification in the Axon Verified Compiler in Lean and Claude Code
Remote
PAgE
Martin C. Rinard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:40
20m
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The Next Frontier for AI-Generated Kernels: Correctness
PAgE
Guido Martínez
Microsoft Research
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Tyler Sorensen
University of California at Santa Cruz
DOI
Pre-print
12:00
20m
Talk
Testing LLM-Generated Distributed Protocol Code
PAgE
Ankush Das
Boston University
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Brendan Coyne
Boston University
13:40 - 15:20
PAgE Session 2
PAgE
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Meadows B
13:40
20m
Talk
Combining Agentic AI and Lightweight Formal Methods To Find Bugs in a Production Hypervisor
PAgE
Hiroyuki Katsura
University of Cambridge
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Kayvan Memarian
University of Cambridge
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Peter Sewell
University of Cambridge
14:00
20m
Talk
From Workarounds to Root Causes: Experience Using Agentic Workflows to Debug Complex Browser GPU Compiler Stacks
PAgE
Abhijit Ramesh
UC Santa Cruz
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Reese Levine
University of California at Santa Cruz
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Tyler Sorensen
University of California at Santa Cruz
14:20
20m
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Event-based Design Abstractions for Agent Harnesses
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PAgE
McCoy Becker
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Matin Ghavami
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Fabian Zaiser
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Timothy J. O'Donnell
McGill University; Mila – Quebec AI Institute; CHI FRO; Canada CIFAR AI Chai, Mila
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Martin C. Rinard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Joshua B. Tenenbaum
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Vikash Mansinghka
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:40
20m
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Lumos: Let there be Language Model System Certification
Remote
PAgE
Isha Chaudhary
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Vedaant Jain
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Prineet Parhar
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Kavya Sachdeva
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Avaljot Singh
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Sayan Ranu
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Gagandeep Singh
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Pre-print
15:00
20m
Talk
Lazy Validation and Self-Healing for Agentic Programs
Remote
PAgE
Theodoros Tsampouris
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Eleftherios Ioannidis
Microsoft Research
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Andreas Symeonidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
15:50 - 17:00
PAgE Keynote
PAgE
at
Meadows B
15:50
60m
Keynote
Can Coding Agents Write Verifiably Correct Software?
Remote
PAgE
Shan Lu
Microsoft; University of Chicago
16:50
10m
Day closing
Closing Remarks
PAgE
Shraddha Barke
Microsoft Research, Redmond
Tue 16 Jun
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09:00 - 10:05
TomBall@60 Session 1
Tom Ball at 60
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Meadows B
Chair(s):
Shuvendu K. Lahiri
Microsoft Research
09:00
15m
Talk
Welcome and logistics
Tom Ball at 60
Satish Chandra
Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Shuvendu K. Lahiri
Microsoft Research
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Mayur Naik
University of Pennsylvania
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Byron Cook
Amazon
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Madan Musuvathi
Microsoft Research
09:15
25m
Talk
Recollections from SLAM-ming with Tom
Tom Ball at 60
Sriram Rajamani
Microsoft Research Indua
File Attached
09:40
25m
Talk
Tom and the evolution of abstraction
Tom Ball at 60
Kenneth L. McMillan
University of Texas at Austin
File Attached
10:05
5m
Talk
Reminiscences from Madison and Naperville
Tom Ball at 60
Satish Chandra
Meta Platforms, Inc.
10:40 - 12:20
TomBall@60 Session 2
Tom Ball at 60
at
Meadows B
Chair(s):
Shuvendu K. Lahiri
Microsoft Research
10:40
25m
Talk
From Bebop to Constrained Horn Clauses
Tom Ball at 60
Nikolaj Bjørner
Microsoft Research
File Attached
11:05
25m
Talk
Research in Three-Part Harmony
Tom Ball at 60
Todd Millstein
University of California, Los Angeles
File Attached
11:30
25m
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Riffing on some themes from Tom: Driver Verification, Testing, Abstraction & Theorem Proving
Tom Ball at 60
Nikhil Swamy
Microsoft Research
File Attached
11:55
25m
Talk
The SLAM "GiveUp"
Tom Ball at 60
Rahul Kumar
Amazon
File Attached
13:40 - 15:20
TomBall@60 Session 3
Tom Ball at 60
at
Meadows B
Chair(s):
Satish Chandra
Meta Platforms, Inc.
13:40
25m
Talk
Ju-jitsu with Ball-Larus (& Melski-Reps) or "We will publish no algorithm before its time"
Tom Ball at 60
Thomas Reps
University of Wisconsin-Madison
File Attached
14:05
25m
Talk
Having a Ball with Tom since 1994
Tom Ball at 60
Patrice Godefroid
Microsoft, USA
File Attached
14:30
25m
Talk
The Question That Launched a Thousand Derivatives
Tom Ball at 60
Margus Veanes
Microsoft Research
File Attached
14:55
25m
Talk
Tracing the Ball-istic Trajectory of My Research: From Randoop to FastF, Memory Models and Semantic Merging
Tom Ball at 60
Shuvendu K. Lahiri
Microsoft Research
File Attached
15:50 - 17:30
TomBall@60 Session 4
Tom Ball at 60
at
Meadows B
Chair(s):
Satish Chandra
Meta Platforms, Inc.
15:50
25m
Talk
Interdisciplinary Genius in the 21st Century: The Case of Tom Ball
Tom Ball at 60
Mooly Sagiv
Certora, inc.
File Attached
16:15
13m
Talk
Profiling, not Slicing, is the Path to Success (pre-recorded video)
Tom Ball at 60
James Larus
EPFL
Media Attached
16:28
12m
Talk
The BBC micro:bit revolution (pre-recorded video)
Tom Ball at 60
Steve Hodges
Lancaster University, UK
16:40
30m
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Paths Converge: Software Model Checking for the BBC micro:bit
Tom Ball at 60
Thomas Ball
University of Washington (USA) and Lancaster University (UK)
File Attached
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Tom Ball at 60
TomBall@60 Session 1
Tom Ball at 60
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Tom Ball at 60
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Opening remarks
09:00 - 09:10
PAgE
Formal Methods for Frontier AI Systems
09:10 - 10:10
PAgE
Agentic Code Reasoning
10:40 - 11:00
PAgE
Towards Verified Code Reasoning by LLMs
11:00 - 11:20
PAgE
Remote
Testing, Credible Compilation, and Verification in the Axon Verified Co ...
11:20 - 11:40
PAgE
The Next Frontier for AI-Generated Kernels: Correctness
11:40 - 12:00
PAgE
Testing LLM-Generated Distributed Protocol Code
12:00 - 12:20
PAgE
Combining Agentic AI and Lightweight Formal Methods To Find Bugs in a P ...
13:40 - 14:00
PAgE
From Workarounds to Root Causes: Experience Using Agentic Workflows to ...
14:00 - 14:20
PAgE
Recorded
Event-based Design Abstractions for Agent Harnesses
14:20 - 14:40
PAgE
Remote
Lumos: Let there be Language Model System Certification
14:40 - 15:00
PAgE
Remote
Lazy Validation and Self-Healing for Agentic Programs
15:00 - 15:20
PAgE
Remote
Can Coding Agents Write Verifiably Correct Software?
15:50 - 16:50
PAgE
Closing Remarks
16:50 - 17:00
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Meadows B
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Welcome and logistics
09:00 - 09:15
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Recollections from SLAM-ming with Tom
09:15 - 09:40
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Tom and the evolution of abstraction
09:40 - 10:05
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Reminiscences from Madison and Naperville
10:05 - 10:10
Tom Ball @ Sixty
From Bebop to Constrained Horn Clauses
10:40 - 11:05
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Research in Three-Part Harmony
11:05 - 11:30
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Riffing on some themes from Tom: Driver Verification, Testing, Abstract ...
11:30 - 11:55
Tom Ball @ Sixty
The SLAM "GiveUp"
11:55 - 12:20
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Ju-jitsu with Ball-Larus (& Melski-Reps) or "We will publish no algorit ...
13:40 - 14:05
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Having a Ball with Tom since 1994
14:05 - 14:30
Tom Ball @ Sixty
The Question That Launched a Thousand Derivatives
14:30 - 14:55
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Tracing the Ball-istic Trajectory of My Research: From Randoop to FastF ...
14:55 - 15:20
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Interdisciplinary Genius in the 21st Century: The Case of Tom Ball
15:50 - 16:15
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Profiling, not Slicing, is the Path to Success (pre-recorded video)
16:15 - 16:28
Tom Ball @ Sixty
The BBC micro:bit revolution (pre-recorded video)
16:28 - 16:40
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Paths Converge: Software Model Checking for the BBC micro:bit
16:40 - 17:10
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