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title: Fifth Workshop on Formal Methods and Tools for Security (FMATS5), 21-22 September 2017
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Almost a hundred participants attended this year’s FMATS, held on 21-22 September at Microsoft Research Cambridge. 
The workshop, now on its fifth year, was attended by researchers, PhD students, industrialists and government employees 
with a common interest in formal methods and verification. 


![FMATS5](https://gitlab.doc.ic.ac.uk/resource-reasoning/psvg.doc.ic.ac.uk/blob/master/images/posts/Welcome-to-FMATS5-768x488.png)


The programme included 19 specialist talks, poster presentations and a session of short talks for PhD students, 
RAs and industrialists to introduce themselves to each other and the audience. For a list of the talks and slides, 
[please see this year’s programme](https://vetss.org.uk/fmats-timetable/).

You can also see [photos of the two days on the FMATS5 Flickr page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/143382439@N02/sets/72157686588074530/).