Invited Talk: The Hows and Whys of Higher-Order SMT Sophie Tourret1 1 Inria Abstract SMT solving for higher order logic has been around for a few years and many challenges remain to tackle. In this talk, I will present an assessment of the current state of research in higher-order SMT and focus on the challenge of quantifier instantiation, following a conflict-based approach inspired from first-order logic. SMT 2024: 22st International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories July 22–23, 2024, Montreal Canada $ stourret@loria.fr (S. Tourret) © 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). CEUR Workshop Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org ISSN 1613-0073 CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) CEUR ceur-ws.org Workshop ISSN 1613-0073 Proceedings