POPL 2026
Sun 11 - Sat 17 January 2026 Rennes, France

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 12 Jan 2026 15:07 - 15:30 at Belvédère - Proof assistants

While the word problem for monoids is undecidable in general, having a decision procedure for some finitely presented monoid of interest has numerous applications. This paper presents a toolbox for the Rocq proof assistant that can be used to verify the decidability of the word problem for a given monoid and, in some cases, to produce the corresponding decision procedure. As this verification can be computationally intensive, the toolbox heavily relies on proofs by reflection guided by an external oracle. This approach has been successfully used on several large monoids from the literature, as well as on a database of one million 1-relation monoids. The huge size of this database forced some unusual considerations upon the Rocq formalization, so that its formal proof could be checked in a reasonable amount of time.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 12 Jan

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14:00 - 15:30
Proof assistantsCPP at Belvédère
14:00
22m
Talk
A Certifying Proof Assistant for Synthetic Mathematics in Lean
CPP
Wojciech Nawrocki Carnegie Mellon University, Joseph Hua Carnegie Mellon University, Mario Carneiro Chalmers University of Technology, Yiming Xu LMU Munich, Spencer Woolfson Carnegie Mellon University, Shuge Rong Carnegie Mellon University, Sina Hazratpour Johns Hopkins University, Steve Awodey Carnegie Mellon University
14:22
22m
Talk
Adding Sorts to an Isabelle Formalization of Superposition
CPP
Balazs Toth Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martin Desharnais Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Jasmin Blanchette Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
14:45
22m
Talk
A Lambda-Superposition Tactic for Isabelle/HOL
CPP
Massin Guerdi Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
15:07
22m
Talk
Certifying the decidability of the word problem in monoids at large
CPP
Reinis Cirpons St Andrews University, Florent Hivert Univ. Paris-Saclay, LISN, LMF, CNRS, INRIA, Assia Mahboubi INRIA, Guillaume Melquiond Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - ENS Paris-Saclay - Inria, James Mitchell St Andrews University, Finn Smith St Andrews University