[Om-announce] [ISSAC-ANNOUNCE] ISSAC 2014 First Call for Participation

[Kosaku Nagasaka]

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                         ISSAC 2014

  International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
                 Kobe University, Japan,  July 23-25, 2014.
             with workshops and tutorials on July 21-22, 2014.

                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

           http://www.issac-conference.org/2014

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The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation is
the premier conference for research in symbolic computation and
computer algebra. ISSAC 2014 is the 39th meeting in the series. The
conference traditionally presents a range of invited speakers,
tutorials, poster sessions and software demonstrations with a
centre-piece of contributed research papers.

ISSAC 2014 is affiliated with "Kobe Computing Week 2014", an event of
Academic Exchange Weeks, Graduate School of Human Development and
Environment, Kobe University.

Call for Participation:
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You can register online to ISSAC 2014 shortly (maybe on the beginning
of May). We encourage you to register while early registration fees
apply. The current estimated registration fees are as follows:

Early Online (by 22th June, 11:59 PM, JST)
 CoopOrg: 19,000 JPY, Regular: 20,000 JPY, Student:  8,000 JPY
Late Online (by 13th July, 11:59 PM, JST)
 CoopOrg: 21,000 JPY, Regular: 22,000 JPY, Student: 10,000 JPY
Onsite
 Regular: 26,000 JPY, Student: 14,000 JPY

CoopOrg denotes members of cooperation organizations (e.g. SIGSAM).
The registration fee includes the conference materials with the
electrical proceedings in USB key, coffee breaks, welcome reception,
banquet and bus to banquet. However, the printed proceedings and
lunch are NOT included. The printed proceedings will be available
but you have to order them (2,500 JPY for each copy, but estimated)
at the online registration.

Shortly, more information will be available on the official website.

For information about traveling, accommodation and visa, please see

   http://www.issac-conference.org/2014/local.html

Program Overview:
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Kobe Computing Week 2014 has workshops, extended tutorials and
ISSAC 2014 Conference. The tentative schedule is as follows.

July 21 (afternoon): Maple Workshop, Mathematica Workshop
July 22 (all day): Extended Tutorials
        (evening): Welcome Reception
July 23 (all day): ISSAC 2014 Conference
        (evening): Business Meetings
July 24 (all day): ISSAC 2014 Conference
        (evening): Banquet
July 25 (all day): ISSAC 2014 Conference

Accepted Papers:
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For accepted papers (first reviewing process), see

   http://www.issac-conference.org/2014/papers.html

Posters and Software Presentations:
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For the last calls for posters and software presentations, see

   http://www.issac-conference.org/2014

Invited Speakers:
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We have 3 invited talks on July 23-25.

- Noriko Arai
    (to be announced)
- David Stoutemyer
    Fuzzy simplification of non-numeric expressions containing some
    numeric intervals and/or floating point numbers
- Bernd Sturmfels
    Maximum Likelihood for Matrices with Rank Constraints

Shortly, more information will be available on the official website.

Workshops:
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We have Maple Workshop and Mathematica Workshop on July 21.
You can attend the workshops FREE of charge, without registration.

In Mathematica Workshop, all the presentations will be in Japanese.
In Maple Workshop, all the slides will be in English and one of
presentations will be in English (others are in Japanese).

Shortly, more information will be available on the official website.

Extended Tutorials:
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We have 6 tutorials in parallel; 1 morning and 2 afternoon sessions.
You can attend the tutorials FREE of charge, without registration.

- Lihong Zhi
    Symbolic-numeric algorithms for computing validated results
- Mitsushi Fujimoto
    How to develop a mobile computer algebra system
- Francois Le Gall
    Algebraic Complexity Theory
- Hirokazu Anai
    (to be announced)
- Hidefumi Ohsugi
    Groebner bases of toric ideals and their application
- Hiroyuki Goto
    An introduction to max-plus algebra

Shortly, more information will be available on the official website.

Related Conferences:
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ISSAC 2014 is one of satellite conferences of ICM 2014 (International
Congress of Mathematicians), Korea. Also, SNC 2014 (Symbolic-Numeric
Computation), Shanghai, China, and Workshop on Applications of
Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Analysis, Kobe, Japan, are satellite
conferences of ISSAC 2014.

Sponsors:
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ISSAC 2014 is affiliated with "Kobe Computing Week 2014", an event of
Academic Exchange Weeks, Graduate School of Human Development and
Environment, Kobe University, in-cooperation with ACM/SIGSAM,
sponsored by Cybernet Systems, Maplesoft, Wolfram Research, Tateishi
Science and Technology foundation, and Kayamori Foundation of
Informational Science Advancement, and supported by Japan Society for
Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, and (Japanese) National Institute
of Informatics.


We are looking forward to seeing you in Kobe.

yours sincerely,

Kosaku Nagasaka and Franz Winkler,
ISSAC'14 General co-Chairs

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