20-23 July 2008
Hagenberg, Austria
Registration for ISSAC 2008 is now available at the conference site
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/issac2008/
ISSAC 2008
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
RISC, Hagenberg, Austria, July 20-23, 2008
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/issac2008/
The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC)
is the premier annual conference to present and discuss new developments
and original research results in all areas of symbolic mathematical
computation. Planned activities include invited presentations, research
papers, poster and software sessions, tutorial courses, vendor exhibits, ...
IMPORTANT DATES
ISSAC 2008 will be held July 20 to 23, 2008 in Hagenberg near Linz, Austria
CONFERENCE TOPICS
They include, but are not limited to:
Algorithmic Mathematics: Algebraic, symbolic and symbolic-numeric
algorithms. Simplification, function manipulation, summation, integration,
polynomial / differential / difference equations, linear algebra, number
theory, group and invariant theory, geometric computing.
Computer Science: Theoretical and practical problems in symbolic
computation. Systems, problem solving environments, user interfaces,
software, libraries, parallel / distributed computing and programming
languages, concrete analysis, benchmarking, theoretical and practical
complexity, automatic differentiation, code generation, mathematical data
structures and exchange protocols.
Applications: Problem treatments using algebraic, symbolic or symbolic-
numeric computation in an essential or a novel way. Engineering, economics
and finance, physical and biological sciences, computer science, logic,
mathematics and education.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Sergei Abramov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Elizabeth L. Mansfield, University of Kent, UK
William Stein, University of Washington, USA
TUTORIALS
Komei Fukuda, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Exact algorithms and software in optimization and polyhedral computation.
Gregor Kemper, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Algorithmic Invariant Theory.
Madhu Sudan, MIT, USA
Algebraic Algorithms and Coding Theory.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
John Abbott, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Hirokazu Anai, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
Laurent Buse, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Xiao-Shan Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Laureano Gonzalez-Vega, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain; (Chair)
Willem de Graaf, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Mark van Hoeij, Florida State University, USA
Joris van der Hoeven, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Evelyne Hubert, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Alexander Hulpke, Colorado State University, USA
M'hammed El Kahoui, Universite Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
Manuel Kauers, RISC, Univ. Linz, Austria
Juergen Klueners, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Germany
Viktor Levandovskyy, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Steve Linton, University of St. Andrews, UK
Greg Reid, ORCCA, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University, Australia
Arne Storjohann, University of Waterloo, Canada
Lihong Zhi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ORGANIZATION
General Chair Program Committee Chair Local Arrangements Chair
J. Rafael Sendra Laureano Gonzalez-Vega Franz Winkler