Austin Formal Methods Meetup - September 2025

UPDATE: September 2025
How do systems like Kubernetes and blockchains stay in sync? This Wednesday we’re exploring Paxos — the legendary consensus algorithm at the heart of distributed systems. We’ll model it in TLA+ to see how formal methods prove correctness in the real world. Come for the talk, stay for the pizza and beer!
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Austin Formal Methods Meetup
Join us for an evening of program proofs, useful tools, rigorous techniques, vastly more secure and performant software, and lively discussions around the more mathematical approaches to theory and practice. Topics of discussion include interactive theorem provers, SAT/SMT solvers, type theory, temporal logic, model checking, correct-by-construction, AI robustness, and more. See you there!

Sponsor
Thank you to Capital Factory for sponsoring Austin Formal Methods User Group! Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. To sign up for a Capital Factory membership, click here.

Schedule

• 6:30-7:00 - Meet and greet, eat pizza, drink beer (responsibly!)
• 7:00-8:30 - Main presentation
• 8:30-8:45 - Clean up

Location
We will be meeting at Capital Factory (at the northeast corner of 7th and Brazos downtown). We will be meeting in the Antone's room on the 16th floor of Capital Factory. The 16th floor should be accessible from the elevators near the Security desk.

Parking
There is paid parking in the garage below Capital Factory and the Omni Hotel. The entrance to the parking garage is on Brazos immediately north of 7th street, just before the Capital Factory sign sticking out of the side of the building. The Capital Factory website also has information about additional parking options, though some of the member-specific info may or may not be relevant.

Accessibility
This building is shared between Capital Factory and the Omni Hotel, and so it should be fully ADA compliant.