Events 

CENTAUR Annual Meeting 2026

Paul Brest Hall
555 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford, CA 94305


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Tuesday October 6

8:30am-9:00am Breakfast and Registration
9:00am-9:10am Opening Remarks Clark Barrett Director of Centaur
Session I
9:10am-9:30am AI-Assisted Formal Verification Clark Barrett Director of Centaur
9:30am-9:50am Nazrin: An Atomic Neural Proof Automation Tactic in Lean 4 Leni Aniva PhD Student
9:50am-10:20am Coffee break
Session II
10:20am-10:40am Faithful Autoformalization via Roundtrip Verification and Repair Daneshvar Amrollahi PhD Student
10:40am-11:00am Extending the cvc5 Relational Solver with Cyclicity Reasoning Rachel Cleaveland PhD Student
11:00am-11:20am Satisfiability Modulo Extensional Constant Arrays Mathias Preiner Senior Research Scientist
11:20am-11:50am Coffee break
Session III
11:50am-12:20pm Lightning Talks
12:20pm-2:20pm Lunch and Poster Session
Session IV
2:20pm-2:40pm Automating Bitvector and Finite Field Equivalence Proofs in Lean Elizaveta Pertseva PhD Student
2:40pm-3:00pm Branch-and-Bound for Scalable Verification of Nonlinear Neural Feedback Systems Samuel Akinwande PhD Student
3:00pm-3:20pm Lean Automation: An Update Abdalrhman Mohamed PhD Student
3:20pm-3:50pm Coffee break
Session V
3:50pm-4:10pm Pono 2.0: A Versatile SMT-Based Model Checker for Safety and Liveness Áron Ricardo Perez-Lopez PhD Student
4:10pm-4:30pm Isabelle Automation: An Update Hanna Lachnitt PhD Student
4:30pm-4:50pm An AI-Assisted Procedure for Inductively Strengthening Invariants for Functional Hardware Verification. Daniel Mendoza PhD Student
4:50pm-5:00pm Closing Remarks Clark Barrett Director of Centaur
Reception
5:00pm-7:00pm Reception