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              Third Announcement and Call for Papers

    The Sixth Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics (ASCM 2003)

                   Beijing, April 17 - 19, 2003

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      * Deadline for Submission Extended: September 17, 2002      *
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      * Funds available for graduate students to attend ASCM 2003 *
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      *  A satellite workshop on Geometric Constraint Solving is  *
      *  being organized. Please contact Xiaoshan Gao             *
      *  (xgao@mmrc.iss.ac.cn) if you are interested.             *
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The Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics (ASCM) is a series 
of conferences which offers an opportunity for participants to 
present original research, to learn of research progress and 
new developments, and to exchange ideas and views on doing 
mathematics using computers.  ASCM 2003 will provide an international 
forum for active researchers to review the current state of the art 
and trends on computer mathematics.  The symposium will consist 
of plenary sessions by invited speakers, regular sessions of 
contributed papers, and software demonstrations. Further information 
on previous ASCM symposia and ASCM 2003 may be found at

                http://www.mmrc.iss.ac.cn/~ascm/ascm03

REGISTRATION
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Registration fee for ASCM2003 will be $200, which is the same as previous 
ASCMs. The registration fee covers the conference proceedings, all meals, 
the reception party, the conference banquet, and a sightseeing tour to 
the Great Wall.

INVITED SPEAKERS
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  Christoph Hoffmann (Purdue University, USA)
  Josef Schicho  (RISC, Linz, Austria)
  Nobuki Takayama (Kobe University, Japan)

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Research papers on all aspects of the interaction between computers and 
mathematics are solicited for the symposium.  Specific topics include 
but are not limited to:

   *  Symbolic, algebraic, and geometric computation
   *  Automated mathematical reasoning
   *  Computer-aided problem solving and instruction
   *  Computational algebra and geometry
   *  Computational methods for differential equation
   *  Symbolic/numeric hybrid methods
   *  Parallel/distributed/network computing
   *  Mathematical software design and implementation
   *  Applications in CAGD/CAD, robotics, and computer vision

Papers should be written in English, in single column, not exceeding 
10 pages, and a main text font no smaller than 10 pt.  Authors are 
encouraged to submit their papers by electronic mail (in postscript, 
or pdf formats) to both of the Program Committee Co-Chairs:

     Ziming Li, Email: z6li@scg.math.uwaterloo.ca
     William Y. Sit  Email: wyscc@cunyvm.cuny.edu.

The first page of each paper should contain its title, author(s) with 
affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es), and an abstract. All submitted 
papers will undergo a standard review process and the selection of 
papers by the program committee will be based on their originality 
and significance of contribution as well as their presentation.

The Proceedings of ASCM'2003 will be published as a volume in the 
Lecture Notes Series on Computing by World Scientific Publ., Singapore/River 
Edge, USA, and will be available at the symposium. Authors should visit 
the ASCM 2003 official web site for further information on formatting 
requirements.  Final manuscripts should include the source files in 
LaTeX 2e, as well as any other files necessary for compilation.

IMPORTANT DATES
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     September 10, 2002: Deadline for submission of papers
     November  30, 2002: Notification of acceptance
     December  31, 2002: Deadline for camera-ready copy

ORGANIZATION
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General Chair: Wen-Tsun Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Program Committee:

Falai Chen,       Gouting Chen,        Shang-Ching Chou,
Ding-Zhu Du,      Xiao-Shan Gao,       George Havas,
Hoon Hong,        Jie Hsiang,          Deepak Kapur,
Wen-Shin Lee,     Hongbo Li,           Ziming Li (co-chair)
Matu-Tarow Noda,  Masayuki Noro,       Hong Qin,
Yosuke Sato,      Kiyoshi Shirayanagi, William Sit (co-chair)
Nobuki Takayama,  Dongming Wang,       Paul S. Wang,
Wenping Wang,     Lu Yang,             Kasuhiro Yokoyama
Lihong Zhi.

Local Organization Committee:

Xiao-Shan Gao (chair), Dingkang Wang, Daizhen Zhou.

For questions about the local organization of the conference, please send
email to xgao@mmrc.iss.ac.cn.