Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation
a Workshop at ISSAC 2003
Thursday 7 August 2003
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA

Workshop Location

The George D. Behrankis Grand Hall
3210 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Corner of Chestnut and 32nd street

List of Workshop Attendees

Workshop Program

08:30 -- 09:00 Registration and Refreshments

09:00 -- 09:15 Welcome and Workshop Theme
Session Chair: George Labahn (University of Waterloo, Canada)

09:15 -- 10:30 Invited Speaker

Professor Andrew Odlyzko (odlyzko@dtc.umn.edu)
Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota

Title:  On the Net or invisible: The evolution of mathematics
        and science  (Presentation Slides)

Abstract: Traditional scholarly journals are changing very slowly, although they are increasingly moving to the Net, and soon will start abandoning print formats. On the other hand, other forms of electronic communication that take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Internet and simply do not fit into the traditional journal publishing format are growing very rapidly.

We may see an acceleration in the evolution of mathematics and science communication, as scholars begin to realize that their work will be effectively invisible if they stick to traditional methods.

10:30 -- 10:55 Coffee Break

10:55 -- 12:40 Contributed Papers I  (Infrastructure)
Session Chair: Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

An Internet Accessible Grid Computing System: Grid-Elimino (full paper)
     Yongwei Wu, Weidong Liao, Paul S. Wang, Dongdai Lin

Brokering Mathematical Services on the Net
     Olga Caprotti

A Model for Distributed Computation over the Internet  (full paper)
     Jing Zhu, Yongwei Wu, Fei Xie, et al. (no presentation due to visa problems)

Design, Implementation, and Processing Support of MeML (full paper) 
     David Chiu, Yi Zhou, Xiao Zou, and Paul S. Wang

12:40 -- 14:00 Lunch

14:00 -- 15:10 Contributed Papers II  (Application)

James Davenport (University of Bath, England)

Design and Implementation of a Digital Formula Book for 
Generalized Hypergeometric Functions (full paper) 
     Yasushi Tamura, Isao Hasegawa,  Hiromasa Nakayama, 
     Nobuki Takayama, Shuhei Toudou

Flash-Enabled User Interface for CAS (full paper)
     Keehong Song

15:10 -- 15:20 Break

15:20 -- 16:30 Contributed Papers III  (Education Practices)
Andrew Solomon (Faculty of IT, UTS Australia)  

MFB - Web based Math Illustrations in Calculus and Linear Algebra (Site in Germany)
     Wolfgang Küchlin

Computer-Algebra-based calculators over the web -- tools for 
learning and teaching mathematics in distance and 
face-to-face education (full paper)
     Manfre J. Bauch, Luise Unger, Thorsten Voigt

16:30 -- 17:00 Break before Demonstrations

Software Demonstrations

People giving demos: The workshop will provide desk space, a data projector and a screen for each demo. A laptop will also be provided for the OGB demo. Please feel free to bring hard copies of papers related to your work and a display sign to be used to identify your demonstration (title of demo, your name and affiliation)

Internet access is provided to those people who bring a laptop with a wired or wireless network card. If you do bring a wireless card, please contact Bruce Char (bchar@mcs.drexel.edu) to register your wireless card.

17:00 -- 18:15 
DEMO: OGB (Online Grobner Basis)
NAME: Dr. Michael Mc Gettrick (michael.mcgettrick@nuigalway.ie)
AFFILIATION: The National University of Ireland, Galway

DEMO: Mathematical Computation Protocol
NAME: Qingzhao Guo and Weidong Liao (qguo@cs.kent.edu)
AFFILIATION: Department of Computer Science,
             Kent State University, USA

DEMO: IAMC Framework Prototypes
NAME: Weidong Liao (wliao@cs.kent.edu)
AFFILIATION: Department of Computer Science,
             Kent State University, USA

DEMO: WME Plug-In Prototype
NAME: Xiao Zou (xzou@cs.kent.edu)
AFFILIATION: Department of Computer Science,
             Kent State University, USA

DEMO: Grid-ELIMINO
NAME: Youngwei Wu (wuyw@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)
AFFILIATION: National Tsinghua University,
             Beijing, People's Republic of China

DEMO: Constructing A MeML-based Website for Teaching Mathematics
NAME: David Chiu (dchiu@cs.kent.edu)
AFFILIATION: Department of Computer Science,
             Kent State University, USA