ISSAC 2012 Call for Participation

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ISSAC 2012
Call for Participation

International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
Grenoble, France, July 22-25, 2012
http://www.issac-conference.org/2012/

Organized in cooperation with ACM SIGSAM

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The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
(ISSAC) is the premier conference for research in symbolic computation
and computer algebra. ISSAC 2012 is the 37th meeting in the series,
started in 1966 and held annually since 1981, in North America, Europe
and Asia. The conference presents a range of invited speakers,
tutorials, poster sessions, software demonstrations and vendor
exhibits with a centerpiece of contributed research papers.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

You can now register online to ISSAC 2012; we encourage you to
register while early registration fees apply. See

http://www.issac-conference.org/2012/registration.html

For information about traveling and accommodation, please see

http://www.issac-conference.org/2012/local.html

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SATELLITE WORKSHOPS

Two satellite workshops will be organized at the same site,
just after the conference:

* MaGiX workshop (July 26-27): language and graphical user interface
design for computer algebra systems. See

http://magix.lix.polytechnique.fr/magix/magixaissac/magixaissac.en.tm

Please register if you want to participate:

http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lecerf/magixaissac-registration.php

* CaCoS workshop (July 26): Categorical Computer Science. See

http://www-ljk.imag.fr/membres/Dominique.Duval/CACOS12/cacos12.html

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PROGRAM

* Accepted papers

http://www.issac-conference.org/2012/papers.html

* Invited talks

Frits Beukers
Hypergeometric functions: computational aspects

Marie-Francoise Roy
Complexity of deciding connectivity in semi-algebraic sets:
recent results and future research directions

Volker Strassen
Asymptotic spectrum and matrix multiplication

For more information, see

http://www.issac-conference.org/2012/invited.html

* Tutorials

Viktor Levandovskyy
Elements of Computer-Algebraic Analysis

Pascal Koiran
Upper bounds on real roots and lower bounds for the permanent

Seth Sullivant
Algebraic Statistics

For more information, see

http://www.issac-conference.org/2012/tutorials.html

Joris van der Hoeven, General Chair