CALL FOR POSTERS
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                                ISSAC 2003
        International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
         Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA,  August 3-6, 2003
                    http://www.drexel.edu/issac2003/

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ISSAC is  the yearly premier  international symposium in  Symbolic and
Algebraic  Computation.  It  provides an  opportunity to  learn of new
developments and to present original  research results in all areas of
symbolic mathematical computation.  Planned activities include invited
presentations, research  and survey papers,  poster sessions, tutorial
courses, vendor exhibits and software demonstrations.

ISSAC'2003 will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA, from August 3 to 6, 2003.


Important Dates
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- Deadline for Submissions of Abstracts:     April 21, 2003
- Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:      May 21, 2003
- Camera-ready copy due:                     June 16, 2003


Poster Program Committee
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Olga Caprotti (Chair)
RISC-Linz (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation)
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Willem De Graaf
Mathematical Institute
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Lihong Zhi
Mathematics Mechanization Research Center
Institute of Systems Science
Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences
Academia Sinica, Beijing, P.R. China


Poster Sessions
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The abstracts of all accepted posters will appear in the 
SIGSAM Bulletin. Moreover, the abstracts will be distributed at the 
conference. 

The Poster Sessions are an ideal venue for presenting recent research
results or ongoing research projects that might not yet be complete, 
but whose preliminary results are already interesting nonetheless. 
Posters describing computer algebra systems and applications are also 
especially welcome. To encourage poster submissions of good quality, a 
best poster prize, consisting of a certificate, will be awarded. 
Posters will be judged based on content and presentation.


Conference Topics
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Topics of the meeting include, but are not limited to :

- Algorithmic  mathematics.  Algebraic, symbolic  and symbolic-numeric
  algorithms.   Simplification,   function  manipulation,   equations,
  summation,  integration,  ODE/PDE,  linear algebra,  number  theory,
  group and 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 for symbolic computation, concrete analysis, benchmarking,
  theoretical and practical complexity of computer algebra algorithms,
  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,   statistics,
  education.


Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit electronically an abstract of no more 
than 900 words to the poster committee chair describing the contents 
of the poster. Plain TeX or LaTeX is preferred, but plain text is also 
acceptable.

- Previous ISSAC Poster Sessions 2001
  2002: http://www.lifl.fr/ISSAC2002
  2001: http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~bigatti/ISSACposters/

- How to prepare a poster 
  http://www.siam.org/siamnews/general/poster.htm
  (Technical details are a bit obsolete.)