SECOND MAGMA CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL ALGEBRA
Marquette University, Milwaukee, May 12-16, 1996
Conference Themes
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An interdisciplinary conference on computational algebra and
number theory, computer algebra and their applications will be
held from May 12--16, 1996 at Marquette University, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, USA. The purpose of this conference is to bring to-
gether mathematicians and software developers to present recent
developments in cognate areas of computational algebra and number
theory, to inform theoreticians about available computational
tools and provide an opportunity to become familiar with their
use, to identify desirable directions for theoretical research
and practical development, and to promote the use of advanced
tools in applied areas.
In the past few years a number of very significant advances have
taken place in several different branches of computational alge-
bra and number theory. The organizers of this Conference per-
ceive a need to bring together theoretical mathematicians and
developers of algorithms and software tools to consider ways of
overcoming the compartmentalized nature of computational algebra
in the context of the increasing tendency for sophisticated ap-
plications to draw on computational techniques from several quite
different areas.
Topics
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*Computational methods* for, but not restricted to, the following
areas:-
Alg. geometry Cohomology Commutative algebra Elliptic curves
Finite fields Finite geometry Group theory Knot theory
Module theory Number theory Ring theory Semigroups
*Application* of such techniques to problems in algebra, coding
theory, combinatorics, cryptography, design theory, discrete sig-
nal processing, hardware design and physics.
Invited Speakers
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J Carlson (Athens-GA) H Cohen (Bordeaux) J Key (Clemson)
J Cremona (Exeter) C Leedham-Green (QMW)
(Others to be announced)
Organizing Committee
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Mike Slattery(C) John Cannon Jon Carlson Marty Isaacs
Jenny Key Arjen Lenstra Stuart Margolis Michael Pohst
Conference Site
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The Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at
Marquette University will host the meeting. Since January 1994,
the Department has been located in Katharine Reed Cudahy Hall, in
the center of the Marquette campus. Marquette University, located
on an 80-acre urban campus near downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is
an independent, coeducational institution founded in 1881.
Lectures will be held in the main lecture auditorium which seats
140 people and features network connections and video projection
equipment. A discussion area outside the lecture hall, at the
foot of the atrium, will be available for morning and afternoon
teas.
Extensive computing facilities will be available for conference
delegates, including Internet services.
Conference Structure
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+ Invited Talks
Recent advances in the development of practical algorithms for
various branches of algebra, number theory, and geometry will be
described. There will also be a number of invited talks by
research mathematicians describing their attempts at investigat-
ing problems with the available tools in computational algebra.
+ Contributed Talks
There will be opportunities to present papers on both the
development of new algorithms and on novel applications.
+ Problem Sessions
In small special interest groups, problems and potential ap-
proaches to their solutions will be discussed; participants will
be encouraged to submit problems.
+ Workshops
During the evenings there will be hands-on workshops both for new
and for existing users of Magma and related systems.
+ Software Demonstrations
A small number of mathematicians will have the opportunity to
demonstrate pioneering applications of computer algebra tools in
research.
+ Poster Session
If necessary a poster session will be organized to prevent over-
crowding of the contributed talks sessions.
Proceedings and Further Announcements
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A proceedings of the Conference will appear as a special issue of
the Journal of Symbolic Computation.
A World Wide Web site will be maintained with a schedule of
events, abstracts of talks, additional information on the venue
and registration, comments by participants and possibly links to
preprints of papers and home pages of participants.
Please write to the (ordinary mail or electronic) address listed
below if you would like to receive the second announcement (in-
cluding a list of invited talks) and the registration form, or
use the registration form on the Web page.
Submissions and Timetable
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Besides the invited lectures and workshops (details to be an-
nounced shortly), a number of sessions for the presentation of 30
minute contributed talks are planned. Please send an extended
abstract (one to three pages) for proposed contributed talks in
an area relevant to the Conference to the address listed below
before *March 8, 1996* (This was extended to April 15 in the
second announcement - obviously the final selection will not be
on April 1. No, that wasn't an intentional April Fool's
joke :-) ). The program committee will make a selection
before *April 1* of talks to be presented in Milwaukee;
speakers will be invited to submit a full paper, which will un-
dergo the usual refereeing process for the Journal of Symbolic
Computation. If necessary a poster session will be organized to
allow additional contributions to be presented.
The organizers also welcome submissions for the demonstration of
software; send a short (one-page) proposal to the address below
before *March 8, 1996*. Extended abstracts (one to three pages)
for contributed talks at
The Second Magma Conference
c/o Michael Slattery
Dept. of Math., Stat. and Comp. Sci.
Marquette University
Milwaukee WI 53201-1881
U.S.A.
Magma Conference Home Page:
http://studsys.mscs.mu.edu/~mikes/CompAlg
e-mail: mikes (a) mscs.mu.edu
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